February 2013 – PowerPoint Backgrounds

Cubes PowerPoint Templates

Honestly, if you want a job doing well, you may as well do it yourself. I asked my designers to make 12 Cubes PowerPoint Templates, and they went and made 13. Obviously they didn’t realise what a superstitious lot you are and that the thirteenth template probably wouldn’t get downloaded at all. But hey, it’s your loss. And my designers’ too, as I docked them 13 month’s pay for their flagrant disregard of my instructions.

But aren’t these cubes yummy? We like to think of them as alien dice.

If you click on an image above, it will open a PowerPoint presentation with a bigger version of that image as a background. You can then save the PowerPoint to your computer and use it in your future presentations.

Opposites PowerPoint Quiz

Here is a PowerPoint Opposites Quiz that your kids will love. It’s ideal for 5 to 7 year olds. On each slide a word is shown, and your kids have to guess (ok, know) its opposite. They’re all fairly easy opposites, like up and down, but they’re good fun, nonetheless. You can also use this PowerPoint as a template for your own opposites quiz, if you want to add your own opposites.

Click on the image above, or the previous link, to open up the template in PowerPoint. From there you can ctrl+s to save it to your computer. Pressing F5 will run the quiz from the beginning. Left click on the mouse to move to the next slide and left click again to make the “opposite” word appear. There are twenty pairs of opposites. Most of the opposites are fairly cut and dried, but there may be some that offer a couple of alternatives. You could use these for further exploration with your children.

Name The Animal PowerPoint Quiz

This Name The Animal PowerPoint Quiz is a little out of character for us. Most days we strive to bring you stylish (and usually shiny!) PowerPoint backgrounds that you can just plug into your existing presentation ideas. Our designs are very useful from an aesthetic point of view, so if you want to impress, you came to the right place. This template, however, is different. We have education on our minds. We believe it is important for children to be able to differentiate the different sounds made by the animals of the earth.

To this end, our intrepid designers-come-interviewers got on their bikes and went out into the fields to collect sounds. No poor animal was left un-bothered. OK, that’s a sligt exaggeration as we have only 15 different animals covered. We call that artistic license. The end result is this educational PowerPoint template. The format is this: each slide contains the media file of an animal making a noise. Click on the play button for the media file to play the animal’s noise. Click again to trigger the name of the animal to come flying in. Click again to move on to the next slide. We have ducks quacking, dogs barking, and much more. Here is the definitive list of animals used on the slides:

bees
pig
cow
tiger
geese
cat
sheep
elephant
birds
dog
chimpanzee
donkey
cuckoo
duck
horse

It doesn’t really matter whether answers are given in the plural or the singular. If a child says it’s just one bee making all that buzzing noise, it doesn’t really matter that we wrote down “bees” here.

Click on the image above (or the link) to open up the template in PowerPoint. Save it to your hard drive and you are good to go.

Lightbulb PowerPoint Backgrounds

The “bright idea” for this batch of PowerPoint backgrounds was the old cliché of an “idea lightbulb”. And, of course, our team of designers went mad with it. One lightbulb was not enough, oh no. And two weren’t either. Before we knew it there was a sinister looking herd (is herd the correct grouping?) of lightbulbs.

These backgrounds have been shot with the usual high quality you have come to expect from powerpoint-backgrounds.net. Our designers, being our designers, have shot the lightbulbs from every conceivable angle (and some inconceivable ones), too, so there should be something for everyone.

Clicking on any of the above images will open the corresponding background up in PowerPoint, and from there you can ctrl+s to save it to your hard drive. Change the template to fit your needs and then use it over and over again until your audience taps out.

Depending on how well these lightbulb PowerPoint backgrounds are received, we may create a new, more dramatic set.