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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.

Name The Instrument PowerPoint Quiz

We don’t usually do “educational PowerPoints“, but someone in back thought it would be fun to create a name the instrument PowerPoint quiz. And that’s what this is. It took us ages to make, so you’d better like it! Click on the image above to open the template up in PowerPoint.

This PowerPoint quiz is ideal for teachers and parents alike who want their kids to put a face, or name, to the sounds of musical instruments they hear. As well as being educational – it’s fun to do! And I bet you, as teacher/parent, don’t get them all right either. Leave your comments below, because your feedback is important for us.

In summary, each slide has a music file on it that you, as presenter, play. The kids in the audience need to identify the instrument. At your command (OK, click), the name of the instrument appears on the slide, Hurray – you got it right Jimmy! Or – for God’s sake Henry, how (slap) many (slap) times (slap) must (slap) I (slap) tell you that a turtle isn’t a musical instrument (slap).

In more detail: to play the music, you need to hover over the image of the speaker until you see the play button – click that. When you want to display the answer, click anywhere on the slide. We put “Answer x” there to simplify things, so you can just click on that to save confusion. To move to the next slide, and the next musical instrument, click anywhere on the slide.

It’s a bit fiddly, because you have to:

get the Play button to appear. You need to hover over the music file (the speaker icon).
display the answer. You can actually click anywhere on the slide to do this.
move to the next slide. Again, click anywhere on the slide. So, you see that clicking on the slide does two things: display the answer and move to the next slide.

Is this, like, duh complicated, or is it just me…?

The instruments named, in order, are:

cello
drums
flute
guitar
harpsichord
piano
harp
saxophone
bass guitar
trumpet

Have fun!

Geometric PowerPoint Backgrounds

Geometric PowerPoint Backgrounds. Well, what would you have called this collection. We started off with “different level cubes” and thought that in some ways it said too little, and in others it didn’t say enough. Then we moved onto “abstract backgrounds”, but if we went down that road we’d be calling everything abstract.

So, we settled on “Geometric PowerPoint Backgrounds”. Precise enough to describe the current crop of backgrounds, but generic enough to use again on something very different!

Naming convention aside, these really are high quality PowerPoint backgrounds. We went mad trying to vary the different elements, so there are:

different levels of reflectivity
surfaces that are darker (absorb less light) than others
a variety of colours, but not too many. Don’t want people getting dizzy.
different things being reflected
changing camera perspectives

If these backgrounds don’t make you happy, then you’re just a curmudgeon.

Free Lightbulb PowerPoint Backgrounds

Get this: we spend hours of blood sweat and tears creating 3D lightbulb backgrounds, and then some bright sparks start asking for 2 dimensional lightbulb backgrounds! Some folk are never satisfied. Anyway, ask and ye shall receive, and here are some more free lightbulb PowerPoint backgrounds.

There are a variety of luscious colours with gradients on these backgrounds. Some are quite dark though, and will require that you use some light coloured text. We knew you knew that, we just like patronising you.

As usual, each of the thumbnail images above represents a different background and clicking on one will open it up – already inserted into PowerPoint – as a template. From there, you can do what you will; amend it how you see fit and use it (or them) in your upcoming presentations.

PowerPoint Templates Free Download

We’ve got a stylish batch of smooth PowerPoint templates free to download, in this post. These backgrounds have got gradients galore, light and dark colours, subtle pastel shades; what more could you possibly want from PowerPoint? Oh yes, I remember, a coherent narrative for your presentation that conveys your ideas in a clear and concise manner.

Sorry, we can’t help you with that, but we can help you dress up your sorry attempts!

Surely you must know the score by now: click on an image you like (each image corresponds to a background) to open it up in PowerPoint. From there, your best bet is to press ctrl+s immediately to save the template to your computer. You can change these PowerPoints, if you wish, and use them in as many of your own presentations as you desire. Can’t say fairer than that.

If you liked these, I bet you’ll probably enjoy these other PowerPoint backgrounds, too.

Free Christmas PowerPoint Template

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me this Free Christmas PowerPoint template. Yes, that’s how much I mean to her. So, anyway, in the best tradition of recycling presents, I thought I’d offload it on you. “Offload” has such a negative connotation. I come bearing this very beautiful gift sounds much better. And that’s precisely what this is, and what I’m doing.

This is yet another free PowerPoint template with a Christmas theme. There aren’t too many days left before Christmas, but we might be able to get another one out before Santa arrives.

Click on it to open it up in PowerPoint, whereupon you can ctrl+s to save it to your hard drive. From there you can amend it to fit the needs of your upcoming christmas themed presentations. To your elf like helpers no doubt.

If you liked this template, you may also like this Christmassy background, and this Christmas template, too.

Christmassy PowerPoint Background

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
There is the question. Hot on the heels of our first Christmassy PowerPoint background, presented here is our sexy second for Christmas. OK, we have already given you some animated snowflake backgrounds, but those are moving images and this is a still one. We know you like smoooooth gradients in the background with starkly contrasting colours for the subjects in the foreground – and that’s precisley what we’ve given you. In still image form, of course.

Just look at the gorgeous green on this background. Say no more. Just download it (click on the image above, or the link), save it to your computer (ctrl+s) and amend it to your heart’s content. You can use it in all your forthcoming presentations, free of charge. We prohibit this background’s sale and publication on other websites, however. We don’t like rapidshare, filepost, megaupload, etc etc. Just use the image for your own school/education/presentation purposes and we’ll be happy. Cross over the line into self promotion or profit, and we won’t be happy. Blah blah.