PowerPoints are a natural part of our lives as college students. You're probably an expert slideshow creator by now with the ability to throw together a 10-slide presentation for that speech you forgot about an hour before class starts. But do you remember your early days of PowerPoint in fourth or fifth grade when making a presentation was a form of entertainment rather than a chore? Or when you and your classmates had an unspoken competition to see who could cram the most interesting graphics onto their slides whenever presentation days rolled around?

Well, let me take you back to those days with this step-by-step guide of how to assemble the perfect elementary school PowerPoint.

1. Pick a good theme

You don't want boring backgrounds on all of your slides. Only the peasants use solid-colored slide backgrounds. You need to go with a more impressive choice like this mountain background (even if your presentation has nothing to do with hiking or mountains).

Or better yet, use this fireworks theme, because who doesn't want their entire presentation to consist of black backgrounds with yellow and white words?

2. Choose great fonts

Speaking of words, which fonts will you chose for your presentation? Well first off, never use Times New Roman or Arial. Both of these font choices are too dull, especially when you have an entire array of other fonts that can be used for your slideshow masterpiece. Here are a few of the best choices:

For any slide about the history of something.

If you consider yourself to be artistic in any way.

If you want your presentation to look fancy.

If you want your presentation to look fancier, and if you don't mind making all of your words 100-point sized so they'll even be legible.

If you want your whole presentation to look like unicorn vomit.

3. Animate your text

Words that stand still on your presentation just won't cut it. This is why every slide must include lots of... text animation!

You need to make sure that your audience is thoroughly impressed and engaged by your whole presentation. If they look like this while watching your presentation, you've done your job...

4. Find a ton of clip art

What would a PowerPoint be without some quality clip art? Be sure to put as many pictures into your presentation as possible. For example, if you talk about someone being angry, put in a picture just like this:

Or if you're talking about anything remotely sad, put in a picture like this:

If you talk about any kind of animal, make sure to put in a nice illustration of it, in case anyone forgot what a dog or a cat looks like.

5. Add WordArt

You might think that you're done with your presentation, but you can't forget about the all important WordArt! You may have a lot of words on each slide already, but that doesn't mean that you can't add WordArt in every available space.

So, are you a Papyrus person or more on the Comic Sans side? Leave your comments below!