Year-Round Paper Tearing Activities Bundle - Tear Art - Torn Paper Templates

Building finger strength and dexterity is easy and fun with these tear art templates. With many options to meet the needs of your students, this paper tearing center gives young students lots of opportunities to strengthen their fine motor skills and develop independence! Including sets for fall, winter, and spring, this bundle includes 36 fun seasonal themes.

For each of the themes included in this set, you will find nine print options: three levels of illustration complexity and three styles for writing (no line, a line for a label, and lines for a sentence). As the illustrations become more complex, students may need to navigate tearing smaller pieces and/or using more colors.

Here’s what you’ll find in this Paper Tearing Bundle!

This Tear Art Bundle includes torn-paper collage templates for the following themes, with nine print options for each:

FALL:

▶️ pencil

▶️ apple

▶️ leaves

▶️ acorn

▶️ pumpkin

▶️ bat

▶️ spider

▶️ candy

▶️ owl

▶️ crow

▶️ turkey

▶️ pumpkin pie

WINTER:

▶️ gingerbread

▶️ Christmas/winter tree

▶️ gift

▶️ reindeer

▶️ snowman

▶️ snowflake

▶️ bear

▶️ penguin

▶️ groundhog

▶️ hot cocoa

▶️ heart

▶️ mitten

SPRING:

▶️ shamrock

▶️ hot air balloon

▶️ umbrella

▶️ rainbow

▶️ egg/chick

▶️ Earth

▶️ rabbit

▶️ frog

▶️ flower

▶️ butterfly

▶️ bird

▶️ sun

How to Use this Tear Art Bundle:

To get started with paper tearing, students will need a template, construction paper, and glue. Glue sticks work well for this craft, but you can also use white glue with paint brushes.

When teaching young children to make a tear art collage, it’s best to start with a simple template that requires only one color of paper. If there are small details (like peaks and stems), you might have the children pre-color those with a crayon. Model tearing paper into very small pieces before beginning to glue.

As children become more experienced with tear art, consider moving to the more complex templates that require smaller pieces and more colors.

How else can I use these templates?

Though designed with paper tearing in mind, these templates can be used in other ways as well!

If you’d like your students to build scissor skills, you can use these templates in a “snipping center.” Provide students with narrow strips of paper and have them snip small pieces to glue onto the templates.

These outlines can also be used at a watercolor center. Inexpensive dollar store cookie sheets can hold a template, a tray of watercolor paints, and a small cup of water. Students can practice painting in the lines.

These templates can also be used with crayons, markers, colored pencils, or oil pastels!

Related Resources:

▶️ Fine Motor Task Boxes

▶️ Fun Boxes: Early Finisher Activities

▶️ Geoboards Task Cards

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