Whole Class Harmony Day Activity 

Learning about Harmony Day or Harmony Week is a wonderful way for students to recognise and understand what it truly means to value diversity in our country. Appreciating everybody’s differences and that ‘everyone belongs’.Use this whole class collaborative colouring activity, where students colour in a piece of their own but then stick it all together to create the image. It shows that while everyone is different – everyone belongs!

Appropriate colours should be used to make this collaborative art activity come together. It is suggested that you don’t use black marker as it will interfere with the lines drawn on the template (part of the artwork).

Print the template, then cut along the dotted lines to create individual pieces. Distribute the pieces of the template to the students. There is a right side and a wrong side to each piece. The right side has a number written in the bottom right corner. Ask the students to turn the paper over and lightly record this number in pencil on the wrong side of the paper. (This is just in case the number becomes obscured by their drawing). Students then flip the piece back over and fill in the template with lines and patterns.

Once the students have completed their work, the artwork is assembled by gluing the pieces, in number order, onto a large sheet of backing paper. A guide is provided to see what the completed artwork should look like. 

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This resource is over nine pages, and the collaborative colouring has been divided into thirty pieces to suit most class sizes.