All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

Today my Teens group made paper food. I wanted them to be able to practice naming food and food related objects. I first showed them some pictures of food hidden behind shapes. They had to guess what the food was before I removed the shape. After discussing what their favorite dishes were, they made paper food. Next class, they're going to share their work with the group by answering the question: What is on your table? Their answers can be something like: On my table,  there is a fork, a knife, a cup and a plate with some salad, spaghetti, meat and a fried egg. I love how colorful their dishes are! Anybody up for some blue spaghetti?

This was an art project I did with my bilingual 4th grade class. We had been studying communities and they had to paint a cityscape but we did it with a twist. First, the students cut pieces of masking tape and taped them on a paper. Each piece of tape had a different size. Then, each student chose a color to paint their paper or rather city sky. The following class when the paint had dried, we peeled off the tape. It's best of you peel off the tape from top to bottom so the paint doesn't come off, too. So, now you have white rectangles of different sizes with a painted background. Students filled in the rectangles with windows and doors to make the city buildings. They also added airplanes, antennas and other details to their cities. Last, we glued their cities onto black creative paper for a more dramatic effect. At the end, you can have your students describe their cities to their friends, either in pairs or to the whole class. I love color and thought the final resu

Well, they aren’t really preposterous, are they? But prepositions do seem utterly absurd sometimes. Here’s an easy way for kids to practice them. All you have to do is make this bed. Yes, a bed. This paper box bed is easier than it seems. Just draw a rectangle in the middle of a paper and cut 2 lines at the top (around 2 inches long) and then at the bottom. Fold all the sides of the bed and glue the ends together. Have the kids draw a character to sleep on the bed. They can decorate and glue anything they want on it, except the character. Make sure they color and decorate the beds before gluing them together. You’ll need popsicle sticks for the bedposts too. When the beds are ready. Explain that they have to  place the character they made according to what you say. You can tell them to place the girl, boy or even a teddy bear on the bed, behind the bed, under or next to the bed, even between beds. Depending on how old your students are, they can even tell each other where to place th