Design an Ugly Christmas Sweater With Google

Have you ever gone to a Tacky Christmas Sweater Party? Designing a Tacky Christmas Sweater with Google is a fun activity that involves creativity, writing, and computer skills. Students can even add more descriptive words to each other's creation.

Have you ever gone to a Tacky Christmas Sweater Party? I've probably gone to parties not knowing my sweater was even tacky! Designing an ugly Christmas Sweater is a fun activity that involves creativity, writing, and computer skills.

Here are the steps in designing a sweater using Google Presentation (Slides):

1. Select Google Docs or Google Presentation

- Page Setup is 8.5 X 11

- Setting up the document as Portrait allows students to add text at the bottom of the slide.

2. Add sweater image

- Image may already be saved for students to use

- If not, students will select EXPLORE under the Tools menu and search for sweaters

- Make sure to type PNG at the end so the images have no background.
- If you want a specific sweater, type "red sweater png)

3. Add a photo of the student

- Teachers can have a photo that is already saved and cropped.
- Click on the image icon located on the toolbar

- Adjust the placement and size.

4. Add Details to the Sweater

- Following the same steps, students can continue adding details to the sweater.

- This can also be a winter sweater for those who may not celebrate Christmas.

5. Write a Descriptive Paragraph

- After the sweater is complete, students can write a descriptive paragraph describing their sweater. Teachers can discuss the requirements in writing the paragraph.
- Just select the Text tool in the toolbar and draw a text box. Select the size, style and color of the text. If you want the text to be inside a box, just draw a white box first.

- Students may scoot from one computer or iPad to the next to add more descriptive words to the paragraph.