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Create Your Own Emoji!

Students sketch up to seven original emoji designs, pick their top two, then write a case for why the Unicode Consortium should adopt each one.
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Updated Oct 01, 2021

Subject
Creative Arts, Art, Fine Arts
Topic
emoji design, digital art
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Create Your Own Emoji!

Create Your Own Emoji! is a captivating teaching aid specifically devised for tutors conducting projects linked to Art & Music. This readily downloadable PDF worksheet provides a clean slate for youngsters to put their inventiveness and visualization into action.

Constructing an original emoji could be a thrilling task. Emojis have turned quite ordinary in our digital dialogues, expressing an array of emotions, ideas, or activities with about 3,000 pictograms currently being utilised worldwide. Nevertheless, this tally is steadily rising each year as the Unicode Consortium includes 50 to 100 new emojis chosen out of infinite submissions from all around the planet.

An Opportunity for your Students

This guidance sheet invites them to conceive and fashion their distinctive emojis - whether it's a 'dab' swayed by the prevailing culture or motivated by their favorite dessert.

  • This educational prop assigns students with crafting and advocating various emojis they can invent.
  • The ultimate objective? To handpick their best two designs that are neatly coloured and ready for demonstration.
  • This activity stimulates critical thinking as students must not just spawn visually catchy emojis but also argue why these symbols should be incorporated into our universal digital vocabulary.

Although this tool holds special relevance in Art & Music studies under the Fine Arts branch, its usage isn't tied down to any single grade. It could make an interesting task within any classroom ambience – be it a group activity nurturing teamwork or smaller group tasks where more personalized assistance can take place; or even as homework exercises where solitude stirs independent thoughtfulness.

The Essence of Create Your Own Emoji!

In essence, creating your own emoji invigorates Art class while instructing digital literacy concepts within active participation and creativity – representing the epitome of contemporary learning.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Design an original visual symbol intended to communicate an idea, emotion, or activity.

  • Narrow a set of creative options down to a top choice using a stated selection criterion.

  • Write a persuasive justification for a creative choice, supporting an opinion with reasons.

Teaching tips

  • Share a few real emoji submission stories or recent Unicode additions to make the 'real-world design challenge' framing concrete before students begin sketching.

  • Have students draft all seven emoji ideas in pencil first, then circle their top two, before adding color, since the task calls for the two finalists to be neatly colored.

  • Pair students to read each other's persuasive paragraphs aloud and give feedback before final coloring, since the writing prompts ask students to make a case rather than just describe their design.

Skills covered

  • Original visual design — students create up to seven distinct emoji concepts to represent an idea, emotion, or activity.

  • Selection and prioritization — students narrow seven design options down to their strongest two.

  • Persuasive writing — students write a reasoned justification for why each finalist emoji deserves adoption.

  • Neat finished presentation — the task specifies that the two finalist designs should be colored neatly for presentation.

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