Art and Design Teaching Resources

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in art and design for Key Stage One covering sketching and drawing, painting techniques, use of colour shades, sculpture models, shape printing and artwork by significant artists

  • Christmas Models

    Christmas Models

    Practise using a range of materials and art techniques to create models of different decorations that can be used to celebrate Christmas

  • Christmas Tree Ornaments

    Christmas Tree Ornaments

    Investigate how to use different modelling techniques when shaping and combining materials to create Christmas tree ornaments

  • City Patterns

    City Patterns

    Identify, describe and model some of the different patterns of shapes that can be seen on buildings and street furniture around a city location

  • Festive Cards

    Festive Cards

    Investigate how to combine and shape different materials to produce a range of festive cards to celebrate the Christmas season

  • Fish Sculpture

    Fish Sculpture

    Select, combine and shape different materials to design and produce layered sculptures representing fish that live in the sea

  • L S Lowry

    L S Lowry

    Explore and replicate the painting style and techniques used by a famous British artist by creating a scene of the school playground to match artwork by L S Lowry

  • Rain Views

    Rain Views

    Practise different techniques of painting scenes depicting a specific type of rain to simulate natural phenomena in a range of different landscapes

  • Valentine Shapes

    Valentine Shapes

    Investigate and model how to shape, colour and combine a range of different materials to produce shapes representing themes related to Valentine’s Day

  • Sea Animals

    Sea Animals

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach

  • Number Bonds to Twenty

    Number Bonds to Twenty

    Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty

  • Journeys Poems

    Journeys Poems

    Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport

  • Special Places Poems

    Special Places Poems

    Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world