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Twelve looks for kids' decks

Every Nursery-to-Class-5 deck can be dressed twelve ways — notebook paper, cut-out stickers, doodle lines, watercolour party, soft pastel shapes and more. Same lesson, a different classroom each time.

Every picture below is a real slide, rendered by the deck builder and screenshotted automatically — not a mockup. Pick a look in the wizard, or leave it on You decide and each deck comes out in a different one of the twelve. Click any one to play the real deck — it will read itself aloud.

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The Candy look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Candy· Sniglet
Bright sweet-shop colours on soft gradients.
Good for: A first deck — cheerful and unmistakably for children.

The Jungle look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Jungle· Chewy
Deep greens with leaves along the foot of every slide.
Good for: Animals, habitats, the natural world.

The Ocean look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Ocean· Boogaloo
Blues and a rolling wave band.
Good for: Water, weather, sea life.

The Space look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Space· Luckiest Guy
Deep indigo with a field of stars.
Good for: Counting, night and day, anything that needs a hush.

The Farm look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Farm· Lilita One
Warm ochres behind a wooden fence.
Good for: Food, animals, growing things.

The Notebook look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Notebook· Architects Daughter
Ruled paper, hand-lettering, tape at the edges.
Good for: The default — a teacher's own workbook rather than a template.

The Party look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Party· Baloo 2
Cream ground, watercolour blooms, bunting overhead.
Good for: Festivals, birthdays, the last day of term.

The Soft shapes look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Soft shapes· Fredoka
White and pastel, soft flat shapes, nothing sharp.
Good for: The youngest classes, and any lesson that should feel calm.

The Storybook look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Storybook· Grandstander
Cream and warm cartoon primaries over low hills.
Good for: Reading corner, phonics, language.

The Sticker book look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Sticker book· Gochi Hand
Craft paper, grid squares and cut-out stickers.
Good for: Making and doing — art, crafts, project work.

The Doodle look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Doodle· Caveat Brush
White paper and ink line work, colour only where it means something.
Good for: Class rules, routines, posters to keep on the wall.

The Sunny day look — a slide from the same Five Senses lesson — Sunny day· Bubblegum Sans
Cream and sky blue with a gentle wave.
Good for: First day, welcomes, weather.

How these decks are generated

Every deck above came out of the same pipeline a teacher uses. Nothing on this page was drawn by hand.

1
You type one line
A topic, and any notes about your class. Or upload a worksheet and we read it instead of you retyping it.
2
Two outlines come back
One story-led, one plain and professional. Every concept you named gets its own slide in both — if one is dropped, the outline is regenerated.
3
The lesson is written
Short sentences, one fact per slide, and the real word for the thing being taught. Paragraphs are split into bullets automatically.
4
Games are built in
At least two tap-the-answer or lift-the-flap rounds per deck. A deck that comes back without them is regenerated.
5
Art is found
A photograph or a clean illustration of the actual subject, from Unsplash or Pixabay — filtered for the age group, and credited. Feelings and shapes we draw ourselves, because stock libraries answer those badly.
6
A voice is added
Every slide gets a line the deck reads aloud, printed on the slide too so you have the script.
7
The look is applied
The palette, display typeface, paper texture and the illustrated band along the foot — one of the twelve above.
8
It is fitted to the screen
Each slide is measured and scaled so nothing lands below the fold, at any projector size.

Want the click-by-click version, with screenshots of the real screens? See the full walkthrough and ten finished decks.

What a look actually changes

A look is a palette, a display typeface, a paper texture and an illustrated band along the foot of the slide. It never changes the lesson: the words, the games, the narration and the reading order are identical across all twelve, so choosing one can only change how a deck feels — never whether it works.

Each one is drawn here rather than licensed. Stock template packs forbid exactly this use — redistribution inside a tool where you build your own deck — so the scenes, textures and characters are ours, and there is nothing for you to attribute.

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