The basic drawing app built into Windows, now with layers. Useful for quick diagrams and sketches.

Pre-K draw a Bonfire Night firework picture in Microsoft Paint for the class display

Pre-K (Early Years, age 3 to 5) · 25 min · 1 touchscreen laptop per student, with an adult

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After looking at photos of fireworks, children draw their own bursts, trails and sparkles on a black background in Microsoft Paint, and the pictures are printed for the Bonfire Night display.

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Kindergarten map of the classroom with a four-symbol key, drawn in Microsoft Paint

Kindergarten (Year 1, age 5 to 6) · 45 min · 1 laptop per student

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After walking the classroom, each child draws a bird's-eye map of it in Microsoft Paint with rectangles for tables and a key for the door, windows, sink and book corner, and the printed maps are used in a hunt next lesson.

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Equivalent fractions: design a patchwork quilt square in Microsoft Paint

Grade 3 (Year 4, age 8 to 9) · 45 min · 1 device per child

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Each child designs a sixteen-square quilt patch in Paint that is half, a quarter and two eighths in different colours, labels each colour with two equivalent fractions, and adds it to a class quilt.

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This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.