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Father’s Day is fast approaching and I’m super excited to make this
awesome Father’s Day card for my amazing dad.
In today’s lesson, we are going to use Google Slides to design a newspaper-themed Father’s Day card.
On the front page, we are going to write a newspaper article for dad with an attention-grabbing headline.
On page two, we’re going to write a heartfelt message and craft a whimsical limerick.
On page three, we’re going to get dad thinking with a 9-letter Word Jumble.
And on the last page, we’re going to design a simple logo for a card company.
Now, these are just a few of the ideas and activities that you might include in your Father’s Day card.
Feel free however to replace them with your own creative ideas or pick and choose the activities that you like the best.
It’s also important to note that this card might take a few sessions to complete.
So don’t feel that you have to get it done in one sitting. Alright, let’s get started!
Here we are in Google Slides.
The first thing we are going to do is name our document something memorable like ‘Father’s Day Card’.
Remember this document will be automatically be saved in your Drive.
Then we are going to close the 'Themes' panel on the right hand side of the page.
Next, drag and select all the placeholder content on the slide and press delete.
Then choose ‘View’ and deselect ‘Show speaker notes’ to get rid of our speaker notes at the bottom of the page.
After this, we are going to adjust the size of our slide to look a little more like a card.
To do this select 'File' and scroll down to 'Page setup'.
Select ‘Custom’ in the drop down menu and change the unit of measurement to 'Centimetres'.
Change the dimensions to 14.8 by 21 centimetres, which is the size of an A5 page.
Now, that’s looking a lot more like a card!
To help us with our design, we are going to add some guides.
To do this go to View > Guides > Edit guides
Let’s edit our 'Vertical' guides first.
Delete the value in 'Guide 1' and write 0.3 inches. Then select ‘Add new guide’ and write 5.53 inches.
Change the colour of these two guides to something bright like this purple colour.
Then select ‘Horizontal’ to add some horizontal guides.
Delete the value from 'Guide 1' and write 0.3 inches. Then select ‘Add new guide’ and write 7.97 inches.
Again, change the colour of these horizontal guides and select ‘Done’.
Now you’ll notice our card has a nice guide border around the edge.
As a general rule, avoid putting any text or images outside of these guides as they may be cut off when printed.
Also, don't worry. The guides themselves won't be printed.
Now, it's time to add some content.
Select View > Zoom > 200% and scroll to the top of the page.
Choose the rectangle tool from the 'Shapes' menu and drag a thin rectangle across the top of the page.
With the rectangle selected, choose the 'Border colour' tool (the pencil) and select ‘transparent’ to switch off the border.
and select ‘transparent’ to switch off the border.
Then select the fill colour tool (the paint bucket) and choose a bright red colour.
Adjust the height and position of your rectangle until you are happy. It should snap nicely to the guides.
Next, select the 'Text box' tool and click and drag a text box for our newspaper name.
Now it’s time to come up with a creative name for your newspaper.
For example, if your name is Henry, you might call your newspaper ‘The Henry Herald’
or if your name is Giselle you might go with ‘The Giselle Gazette’.
We’re going to call our paper the ‘Teach Wonderful Times’.
Click and drag to select the text in your text box and choose a new font.
We are going to select the font Spectral, make it bold
and change the font size to be as big as possible without going over two lines.
Lastly, select the 'Align' tool and align your text to the centre of the text box. Looking good so far!
Next, go to Insert > Table and create a table that is two cells wide.
Place the table just below your newspaper name and drag out the width to match the guides.
In the cell on the left, come up with a price for your newspaper followed by ‘Father’s Day Edition’.
In the cell on the right, write down the year your newspaper was established, that is, the year your dad was born.
In this cell, you could instead choose to write down the date for Father’s Day this year. It’s up to you.
Highlight the text in both cells and change the font to Spectral. Make the text bold and
change the font size to 11. Highlight the text in the cell on the right and align it to the right.
Then drag the bottom of your table up a little.
Again, highlight both cells and choose the 'Border colour' tool and choose black.
Then select the tiny dropdown arrow in the upper right-hand side of the table
and choose the image in the middle of the bottom row.
This will select the black line separating our two cells. With this line selected, select the
border colour tool and choose transparent. Click any blank area on the slide to take a look at our work so far.
The next step is to add a headline for our newspaper article.
Click and drag a large text box below our table.
Now it's time to come up with a catchy headline for our newspaper article.
Our headline is; Local man wins 'Dad of the Year’.
Try to tailor your headline and your article to your dad’s interests.
If your dad is interested in sports or movies, make it about those things.
Highlight your headline text and choose a new font. We are using the font Oswald,
with bold applied and a font size of 42. Select the align tool to centre your headline.
Below our headline we are going to insert an image.
To do this select Insert > Image.
We recommend having some photos organised before starting your card and either uploading from your computer or your Drive.
If necessary, make your photo a little smaller by dragging from one of the corners.
Right click the image and select Centre on page > Horizontally.
Now, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Select Insert > Table and insert another 2 x 1 table.
Click and drag the table so that it fits nicely within the guides.
This is where we are going to place our article.
We wrote our article in a separate document so let’s copy and paste part of it in each of the columns.
You may need to resize your text or your image if your article doesn't fit.
Lastly, highlight the text in both columns, select the border colour tool
and choose ‘Transparent’ to remove the table borders.
Let’s look at a few features of our newspaper article:
Firstly, it contains a byline, that is a line of text telling the reader who
wrote the article. We’ve made ours bold so it stands out.
Secondly, we lead our article with an introductory paragraph. This paragraph includes the most
important facts and usually answers the who, what, where, when, why and how of our article.
And lastly, we’ve included some quotes.
Quotes in a newspaper article capture the opinions and emotions of your sources.
Make sure to include a quote from yourself explaining why your dad is so great.
Once you’re happy with your article, select View > Zoom > Fit to see your whole page.
You can also switch off the guides to get a better look.
OK, time to make a start on Page 2.
Right click Slide 1 in the Slides panel and select ‘Duplicate slide’.
On Slide 2, select and delete everything except the red rectangle. Zoom back in to 200%.
Select the rectangle and bump it down the page a little using the down arrow key.
Insert a new text box above the rectangle and write the name of your newspaper plus 'Father’s Day Edition'.
Make the font the same as your newspaper name, in our case Spectral, make it bold
and reduce the font size to 10. Readjust the text box and rectangle until you are happy.
Click and drag a new text box between the guides and write ‘A Message for Dad’.
Change the font to be the same as your article headline, in our case Oswald, make it bold
and change the font size to about 40. Align the text to the centre of the text box.
Zoom back out to 100% and create a new text box about a quarter of the size of your page.
Here we are going to write a heartfelt message for dad. We’re copying ours from another document.
When you’re happy with your message, select, Insert > Image to add an image of your choice.
I’m using this old school photo from when I was younger but it’s a little too wide.
To fix this, scale the image up from the corner until it is about the same height as your message.
With the image selected, choose the ‘Crop’ button. Drag the black sliders in from the left
and right until you are happy with the shape and and press Enter.
Next, click and drag to select the headline and red rectangle.
Right click > Copy and right click > paste to duplicate these objects and drag them toward the bottom of the page.
Change the headline to read Limerick. L - I - M - E - R - I - C - K.
Here we are going to write dad a limerick,
a typically humorous five-line poem with a specific rhythm and rhyming structure.
This structure is often described as AABBA;
that is Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with each other and lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.
Have a listen to our limerick to get a sense of the rhythm and rhyming structure;
My dad is a pretty good guy But his singing makes everyone cry
When my friends come around They ask, ‘What’s that sound?’
‘It’s probably the cat’ I reply
Search your library or online for ‘Limericks for kids’
to find some more examples to guide your writing.
Alright, let’s move on to Page 3 of our card. You’re doing a great job so far.
In the 'Slides' panel on the left, right click slide 2 and select ‘Duplicate slide’.
On slide 3, select and delete everything except our newspaper name, rectangle and headline.
Replace the headline with ‘Word Jumble’.
A word jumble is a collection of nine letters, randomly organised in the 3 x 3 grid.
The object of the game is to create as many words as possible
using the letters provided and without using individual letters twice.
There is also a special 9-letter-word hidden in the letters.
Your task is to come up with a 9-letter word to describe your dad.
Do a quick online search for ‘9-letter adjectives’ if you're stuck.
Select Insert > table to create a 3 x 3 table.
With the table still selected, choose Format options > Size and rotation and change the width and height to 2 inches.
Move the table to the top left of the page. Now, with caps lock switched on,
randomly add the letters of your 9-letter word to each of the boxes in your grid.
Select all the cells and increase the font size to 27.
Make the text bold and align it to the centre and the middle of the cell.
With the cells still selected, change the border colour of your table to black.
Have you worked out what our nine-letter word is yet?
Next to the grid, drag a new text box and write
some instructions so dad knows how to play the game.
Now, zoom back out to 100% and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Select Insert > Table and create a new table that is 3 cells wide and 9 cells high.
Click and drag to move this table to the bottom of the page and readjust the width of the table to match the guides.
Click and drag all the cells in the table and choose the border colour tool and select black.
This table is where dad will write all the answers to the word jumble.
Now on the last slide we are going to keep things really simple.
Duplicate Slide 3 and delete everything.
We are going to insert a small logo for a card company like you would see on the back of a real card.
Our class recently designed logos in Google Drawings using simple geometric shapes.
This is my logo for the Teach Wonderful Card Company with an apple that I made using a hexagon and two parallelograms.
You can make your own logo in Google Drawings or even in Google Slides if you prefer.
I’m going to copy and paste the logo on Page 4 and readjust the position until I am happy. And there we go.
Now this last step might seem a little unusual.
We are going to click and drag Slide 4 in the Slides Panel and place it above Slide 1 so the logo slide is now first.
Trust me with this, it’s going to look amazing.
Now that we’ve finished the design side of our card, it’s time to print using File > Print.
There’s a few options you need to select to make sure our card comes out as expected.
Firstly, under 'More settings', make sure the paper size is A4 and select 2 pages per sheet instead of 1.
Also, make sure the scale is set to ‘Fit to paper’.
Next make sure the options ‘Print on both sides’ and ‘Flip on short edge’ are selected.
If you’ve selected all these settings correctly your card should come out
of the printer and be ready to fold and deliver to dad on Father’s Day.
So there we go! Dad is sure to love this newspaper-themed Father’s Day card.
I wonder if my dad will manage to solve that word jumble? Thanks again for watching. We’ll see you soon.
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