PowerPoint Christmas Cards

This lesson is based on last years Disco Lights project. It’s a festive time of year and I thought it might be good to create an animated Christmas card. (Teacher note:- this lesson can be adapted for any type of festivity)

Step 1. Load PowerPoint and draw a Christmas tree, we do this by using triangles and copy and paste.

Remove any text boxes on the slide
Draw a triangle using the auto shapes tool and colour it in
Copy and paste the triangle, placing them to create a Christmas tree shape. You might need to change their order to move them to the back or front to get the correct look
Add a trunk and pot
Group all the shapes and resize the tree to fill the slide
save your presentation

Step 2. Add a bauble and animate it.

Draw a circle using the drawing tools.
Format it to make it the colour you want
Go to custom animation and add an emphasis effect ( Complementary colours gives a nice effect)
Change the timing in effect options, to make it start with previous, reverse and play to the end of the slide.
Check the animation is the way you want it.
Copy and paste, changing the start colour if you want to.
Save your presentation