Stories Come to Life With Comic Strips Templates!

These Comic Strip Templates help kids bring their stories to life through simple drawing sequences. Follow the step-by-step tutorial and printable guide to make your own comic strip jokes, narratives, and fun cartoons!

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• Use a Comic Strip Template
• Cute Craft Alert: DIY Comic Strips Template 
• Supplies to Make a Comic Strip
• Equipment- For a Blank Comic Strip
• Bring Your Stories to Life With A Comic Template!
• Comic Panel Template Inspiration
• Steps to Use a Comic Strips Template
• Craft Tips- For Comics Success
• Craft Variations- To Try For Comic Fun!
• FAQ- About a Comic Page Template
• More Drawing Projects for Kids
• Come Join the Fun at WTN!
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• Stories Come to Life With Comic Strips Templates!

Use a Comic Strip Template

These fun Comic Strip Templates help you create your own stories in an innovative way! Kids (and grown-ups too!) will love using these blank comic strip printables to bring their ideas to life.

I’ve used comic templates through my decades of teaching to inspire new ways of presenting ideas and concepts. Comics just make things more fun. You’ve got to try it!

Cute Craft Alert: DIY Comic Strips Template 

Don’t you love it when kids tell stories? They have such great imaginations. Blank comic strips give them a place to capture that imagination where it can be shared in a fun way. 

Copy these comic templates and help them bring their stories to life. They can write down dialogue in comment and thought bubbles as well as draw their own characters. 

I used comic templates with a number of assignments as I was teaching and plan to share this with the grandkids the next time they come over. The free blank comic strip options from the free printable will let each person find what they want to fit their comic stories. 

Supplies to Make a Comic Strip

You don’t need many supplies to bring these cute comic creations to life!

• Printable free comic strip templates- Print one template per person. Here is the link: Comic Strip Template Free Printable
• Paper- I like printing the comic templates on white cardstock but regular white printer paper will work too
• colored pencils, markers, or crayons- don’t be afraid to use bright colors to make your pictures pop!
• Pencils & erasers- It works best to sketch ideas first
• Black permanent marker with a fine tip- Use a black permanent thin line marker to outline comic panels and speech bubbles

Equipment- For a Blank Comic Strip

• Printer (to print your free blank comic strip pages), like this Epson printer

Bring Your Stories to Life With A Comic Template!

This comic template is such a simple way to start your creative story project. You and the kids don’t have to worry about drawing your own blank comic strips. These templates provide boxes and layouts so you can jump right into storytelling.

Each comic panel template gives them clear spaces to draw characters, scenes, and add speech bubbles. Help the kids build a beginning, middle, and end to the story, fitting into the blank panels of the comic strip.. It’s perfect for encouraging writing skills, creativity, and even a little humor!

Comic Panel Template Inspiration

Need a few ideas to get started? Here are some fun prompts for your comic strips template:

• A superhero saves the day… but something goes hilariously wrong
• A pet goes on a secret adventure while the family is away
• A day in the life of your favorite toy
• A silly conversation between two animals
• A “what if” story- what if kids ruled the world?
• A funny school day moment

If your kids need a jump start, let them take one of these ideas and go with it! They will tell an epic tale from a prompt or their own idea!

This creative project can help them learn how to tell a story well, to understand how to make it flow. It can help them focus on the core points and let go of unnecessary details. And it can be used in educational settings as well as at home to make a project fun in history, science, or language. I even used it in my home-ec classes!

Steps to Use a Comic Strips Template

1. Use this link to print out all or one comic page template: Comic Strip Template Free Printable using white card stock or white copy paper.
2. Decide on your story idea and break it down into the main steps or points- you will use one for each comic panel.
3. Draw the characters, words/thoughts, and scenery for each step in each of the comic template panels. Draw lightly with pencil and make sure to leave enough space for the words.
4. Add the thought or speech bubbles and write in what you want to say.
5. Use a thin lined permanent black marker to go over each panel drawing after you have everything the way you want it.
6. Color in the drawings (if you want to) with colored pencils, markers, or crayons.

Craft Tips- For Comics Success

These tips can help making your comic strips even easier!

• Use card stock paper to make your project more sturdy and have less bleed through if using markers.
• Divide your story into steps or parts and make an outline before starting. This makes it easier to know how many frames you want in the template as well as how to fill in the template
• Put paper underneath the comic strip template to keep the marker from soaking through.
• Draw first in pencil so you can make changes easily.
• When blacklining your drawings use a permanent marker so it won’t smudge, especially if you’re using water based markers to color them in.
• Draw simple pictures, and remember, stick figures can work well. 
• You may want to try putting the words into the blank comic panels first and draw the picture around it to make sure there is room for both. 

Craft Variations- To Try For Comic Fun!

Here are a few variations you’re welcome to try with this comic template craft:

• Make your own comic strip template and decorate it as you wish.
• With a black marker, round off the corners of the template inside each square. Makes a more rounded look to the template.
• Make your comic without words telling the story with pictures only
• Use stickers instead of making drawings of characters
• Make this a family project and have each person draw a panel so the story unrolls as you go!
• Make your own comic book by stapling several pages together

FAQ- About a Comic Page Template

More Drawing Projects for Kids

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