This was a two-part exercise. In the first session last week, we just played with the ink pads, testing various effects and inventing characters. I advised the students to try and come up with four characters, all based on thumb prints, and to choose their favourite.
Then I asked them to make some notes about their character - name, age, sex, where did this character live, who were his/her enemies and friends, likes and dislikes, and finally to jot down the skeleton of a plot.
This week I gave out booklets and they started to write up their illustrated stories. It was a really quiet session because the children got very involved in their writing. They all said they'd finish the booklets off at home.
If you need to source ink pads, you can get them pretty cheaply here. I just bought a few new brown ones because they do for animals or humans. But your school may have some in anyway. If you're doing this activity at home and don't have an ink pad to hand, colouring the thumb with a felt tip or paint would work!
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