Animal Emotions – Activity Pack Cover

Apologies for the crappy images. For some reason, I never took any photos of it college with the proper set up so this is a quick bedroom floor job I’m afraid. Buy anyway, this is the outside cover of my childrens activity pack that contains all the activity sheets I designed inside. The sheets on the inside were printed on matte paper as this is easier for children to draw, write or colour on. The pack cover was printed on a thick high gloss so it was more sturdy and appropriate as a cover.

This is the reverse of the outside cover. It simply show the contents of the pack and a ‘barcode’ to show how it would look if it was an actual product.

The circular flap on the edge of the activity pack layout above and below show where the pack folds to hold the sheets themselves .I decided to add another layer to the activity aspect by having two puzzle type questions about the picture of the tiger on the inside cover below.

You can see these activity sheet inserts for the pack above by clicking here and here. They include a fortune teller making activity, colouring in, puzzles and facts.

Animal Emotions – Activity Pack Contents

This is another one of the sheets that I included in my activity pack. I researched current packs on the market and there are usually a few recurring elements. For example, you might have a make and do aspect (the fortune tellers in this case), a puzzle, colouring in and something educational. I wanted my pack to be an all rounder to I tried to cover all these elements. I was lucky that could fit the different characters into each different activity. So above you can see the ‘silly’ tiger is the character on the  puzzle page which happens to be a maze.

This was the colouring in activity sheet. I wanted to create a pack of crayons to match this section of the project but unfortunately with the time constraints it wasn’t possible. Here I got to reuse the ferocious tiger character already in the fortune teller.

This was the educational side to the activity pack with a few simple facts about tigers for children to read. Again, it was handy how the wise tiger character fit in to this part of the project without having to be shoe-horned in as he really suits the theme.

I decided to mix up the colours with the other parts of the activity pack to avoid being too repetitive. However, if I had chose to make more fact sheets or educational elements, I would have kept them yellow. Likewise if I had created more colouring in pages, they would have been purple, just to keep like with like and keep everything organised and colour coded.

As the activity pack I created only focused on one animal, I imagined that if the pack was an actual product, that you could also purchase other activity packs based on the other animals. So to hint at the fact that I had considered this, I included a faux promotional sheet to encourage the consumer to purchase the other activity packs in the series.

Animal Emotions – Fortune Teller Activity Sheets

The next phase in this college project was to introduce what we had made into a broader platform. I decided, as I had made a childs paper toy, that I wanted to make an activity pack for it. I remember getting little activity packs as a child that would come with puzzles, colouring books and crayons. My aim aim was to create something to that effect in keeping with the style I had created.

The above images show some of the inserts in the activity pack I made. You have the page for fortune teller itself so that a child can cut it out and make. You have a folding instructions page too with visual aids so that a child would be able to make sure they were making it properly. Then finally, there are instructions how to play the little game itself.

I did make some more inserts for the activity pack which I will post soon. I kept all the pages blue because they go together in sequence whereas the other pages I created where stand alone pages. I continued to use coloured paper for texture so that everything was consistent in theme and look.