Getting Familiar with the Drawing Toolbar – Creating a Portrait in Microsoft Word
Created by Patricia Janann Nicholson
Lesson Plan
Grading Rubric

You are going to be using the drawing toolbar to create the portrait shown below:

Page Setup – Landscape

• Click File > Page Setup

• At the Page Setup dialog box select Landscape.

• Click OK to exit the Page Setup dialog box.

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create a Road

• Draw out large rectangle, fill color black, for road at the bottom of the page.

• Draw out several small rectangle for lines on road and fill with yellow or white.                    
  

Group the road parts together

• Select all the road pieces by holding down the Shift key and clicking on each piece, then select group from the Draw drop down menu on the Drawing toolbar.

Here is what you should have so far:

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create a Sky Background

• Draw out a large square for the sky background just above the road that covers the sky area
  

Fill with gradient fill – preset Daybreak – shading style – horizontal.

• Click on the fill bucket on the drawing toolbar and selecting fill effects.

• This open the Fill Effects dialog box. Make sure the Gradient tab is selected. Colors set to Preset. At the Preset colors drop down list select Daybreak and make sure Horizontal is selected for Shading styles. (See graphic below)

Your document should now look like this:

Order is important when using shapes in Word. We want the sky to be placed behind the road and the other items we will be adding to the document.

• Click on the Sky to select it.
• From the Draw drop down list, select Order > Send to Back.

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create a House

• Draw out large square for base of house
• Fill with texture fill by clicking the fill bucket on the Drawing toolbar and select Fill Effects:

• At the Fill Effects dialog box select the Texture tab and select the texture shown below:

Create two windows
Draw out small squares for windows – line width 1.25 - fill color yellow

• Select the rectangle tool and draw out a small square for the window
• Select the fill tool and select yellow

Draw two lines to create panes with line width of 1.25

• Select the line tool from the Drawing Toolbar:

• Draw two lines to create panes. To make your lines perfectly straight, hold down the shift key as you pull out the line. Your window should look like the graphic below:

• Select both lines and the square drawn for the window. Click Format > AutoShape:

• At the Format AutoShape dialog box with the Colors and Lines tab selected, change the weight of the line to 1.25:

Group square and lines

• While you still have the three objects selected click Draw on the drawing toolbar and select group from the drop down list.

Duplicate the Window

• Drag the window onto the house and size it to fit the house.
• Now we need to duplicate the window so that both windows are the same. Click on the window and while holding down the Ctrl key and the left mouse button, drag the shape out on the canvas.
• Now group the two windows and the base of the house.
• Order of the house should be Send to Front.

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create a Door

• Draw out a rectangle
  Fill with wood texture
• Draw out small circle for door knob
  
• Fill with two color gradient fill (black and white) with shading style – horizontal

• Group door rectangle and circle together
  
• Place the door on the house – size it to fit the house
  
• Group the door with the house

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create a Roof

• Draw out a isosceles triangle

• Fill with pattern fill (black and white)

• Place the roof on the house – size it to fit the house

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create a Stop Sign

• Draw out a six sided hexagon

• Fill the hexagon with red

Now we want to add text to the hexagon autoshape.

• On the Drawing toolbar select the text tool:

• Drag out a text box and type the word “Stop”
• Make the font Times New Roman – size 14 – Bold – Center Aligned

Format text box – No fill and no line

• Click on the hexagon to select it.
• Click Format on the Standard toolbar and select text box.

• At the Format Text Box dialog box select No Fill and No Line

Create a Sign Post

• Draw out a long rectangle for the sign post
• Fill with wood texture fill
• Group polygon, text box, and post
  
• Move it to the end of the road

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create a Sun

• Drag out the sun AutoShape
• Fill with orange
• Move it to the top of the canvas

Use the Drawing Toolbar to Create Clouds

• Drag our one of the star and banner AutoShapes to create a cloud
• Fill with texture fill
• Using the Ctrl – drag out another cloud

Using the Drawing Toolbar to Create a Text Box

• Drag out a text box and type in “Created by Your Name”

When you are sure you have checked your rubric for all components, print it out for a grade. Once it is graded place in your portfolio in the order it appears in your Table of Contents.