My Holiday Pixel Lab: Screen-Free Coding & Pixel Art Workbook cover
15 pages · ages 5 to 10

My Holiday Pixel Lab: Screen-Free Coding & Pixel Art Workbook

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Screen-free coding and pixel art for ages 5 to 10: the secret history of pixels, 5 holiday grid challenges and 3 free pixel pages.

  • ✓ What pixels are, and how a grid turns into a picture
  • ✓ Fast facts: ancient mosaics, Mario's mustache, the first Mac icons and Minecraft voxels
  • ✓ 5 holiday grid challenges: a mystery pixel code, a mirror present, a pixel Santa, bead crafts and your own emoji
  • ✓ 3 free pixel pages with big, medium and tiny squares
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15 pages · A4 and US Letter PDFs

All 15 pages

  • Cover preview

    Cover

  • Contents preview

    Contents

  • What is pixel art? preview

    What is pixel art?

  • Fast facts preview

    Fast facts

  • More facts preview

    More facts

  • Mystery code preview

    Mystery code

  • Mirror challenge preview

    Mirror challenge

  • Pixel Santa preview

    Pixel Santa

About this workbook

A holiday pixel art workbook for kids aged 5 to 10. Children discover that every picture on a screen is made of tiny squares called pixels, then become pixel artists themselves, colouring secret pictures one square at a time.

Along the way they learn real coding logic without a screen: reading grid coordinates to crack a mystery code, mirroring a pattern for symmetry and planning a design with only four colours, just like early video game artists.

What’s inside

  1. 1

    What is pixel art?

    How “picture” + “element” became pixel, and why a grid of squares turns into a picture when you step back.

  2. 2

    The secret history of pixel art

    Ancient mosaics, why Mario got his mustache, the graph-paper icons of the first Mac and the 3D pixels of Minecraft.

  3. 3

    Mystery pixel code

    Unplugged coding: follow the letter-and-number key to colour squares and reveal a hidden Christmas tree.

  4. 4

    Holiday grid challenges

    A mirror-symmetry present, a 16 × 16 colour-by-number Santa with a zoom-out illusion, and your own four-colour holiday emoji.

  5. 5

    Pixel crafts

    Turn finished grids into fuse-bead ornaments, brick mosaics or cross-stitch, with a pegboard planning page.

  6. 6

    Free pixel pages

    Three blank grids with big, medium and tiny squares for any picture.

Questions

What do I get?

A printable PDF in two sizes, A4 and US Letter. You get both, so it prints well wherever you are.

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Is it a printed book?

No, it’s a digital download. Print it at home or at a print shop, as many times as you need for your family or your own classroom.

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