The collection is designed as a practical toolkit for language teachers and educators who wish to incorporate art-based activities into their teaching practice.
The collection complements the set of pedagogical materials and learning scenarios developed by the RELICA project partnership.
This collection contains several types of activities. Each activity, firstly, indicates the languages for which it was originally designed. Nevertheless, most activities are flexible and can be easily adapted for use with other languages. If an activity was not initially created for language learning purposes, you will also find recommendations on how to adjust it to language-focused contexts.
Creating a Secret Code: Poems with Beads
A fun, hands-on activity to boost learners’ motivation and practice to connect the sounds of a new language with its letters
Bingo with the Maquette
Let’s explore the city through an interactive bingo game where learners search for vocabulary items on a historical maquette while practicing giving directions and building essential communication skills.
Intruder game
The Intruder Card Game
Traveiling objects
Language learning through storytelling and mapping, linking personal objects to geographical and cultural contexts.
Message and Haiku Pendants
An art-practice–based alphabetisation method that links the improvement of writing skills to aesthetic pleasure; recommended for people with low literacy competences to help them build a positive and enjoyable relationship with writing.
Program The Human
A playful, interactive workshop where learners practice vocabulary, communication, and teamwork through movement, maze navigation, and reflective exercises, linking language to real-life situations.
Interactive Bingo: Learning Language Through Visual Exploration
A dynamic bingo activity that uses complex visual supports—such as a large-scale city model or richly detailed artworks—to foster observation, discussion, and active language use.
Language Learning with Cultural Figures
Language Learning through storytelling, interactive role-playing, and visual exercises that connect language skills with the attributes, achievements, or characteristics of culturally significant figures.
Living pictures to express emotions
Learners explore and express emotions by engaging with photographs and translating their feelings into movement and language.
Postcards from Home
This workshop uses art and visual storytelling as tools to develop language, literacy, and communication skills through personal reflection on the theme of home.
Poems with Beads
The activity helps learners build confidence in connecting the sounds of the target languge to the corresponding letters. Learners develop a personal connection to the language and culture, experience the power of literature and create a wearable piece of art that serves as a secret code, strengthening their commitment to learning.
Personal Alphabet with Yarns
A multisensory activity that helps learners get familiar with the alphabet and sound system while practicing pronunciation in an engaging way through rhymes, colors, and textures.
Creative Language Learning with Urban meditation
Learning activities, suitable for helping students to get into the habit of using elements of their environment to support their language learning process with urban exploration.
Audio-Visual Storytelling
Learning language by turning written stories into drawings and drawings back into written stories.
Story Collage
Creating a collective drawing of a monster and giving it an identity by creating a persona around it.
Cadavre Exquis
Creating a collective drawing of a monster and giving it an identity by creating a persona around it.
Portmanteau Words
A storytelling and creative language workshop to map rooms and spaces.
Wandering Lines
Graphic exploration of travel-related verbs through lines.