3rd Grade Create a Holiday Logo

Third graders at Trevvett Elementary have been learning about being a good citizen and celebrating national holidays, like Veterans Day (SOL3.11). Students in Ms. Robinson’s class created their own national holiday, and today she asked me to help them make a logo to represent their holiday. First we talked about logos. They are easily recognized symbols with simple designs and just a one or two colors. I showed them a few logos to see if they could recognize them (Apple, T-Mobile, Xbox, Android, Playstation, Olympics, McDonalds, Domino’s, etc). Some logos even have hidden symbols (like the arrow in FedEx, 31 in Baskin Robins, two people sharing a chip in Tostitos, the letter g/face in Goodwill, and the kiss in Hershey Kisses). I explained that the logos they create for their holiday needed to be simple and easily understood, but they could also have hidden messages or surprises. I gave them each a copy of a blank Google doc in Google classroom and showed them how to type the name of their holiday and change the font, size, and color. We discussed the importance of fonts in logos and realized that the most important thing was that it was easy to read. There are not many cursive fonts in logos (Coca-Cola is a famous exception). Next we went to LogoMakr to design our logo. This is a great site for any kind of illustration because there’s no login, it has a huge collection of clip art, you can customize the colors, and your art is quickly downloaded as a PNG file with a transparent background. After students created their logos, we imported them into our Google doc (Insert > Image > Upload from your computer) and wrote about the holiday. Finally we published our work to Google classroom. You can see all the holiday logos here.