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

  • Castle Flags

    Castle Flags

    Explore and test different methods of printing shapes and patterns that can be used to make the design for a flag to fly on top of a castle

  • 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

  • Easter Decorations

    Easter Decorations

    Practise shaping and combining a range of different materials to produce decorations with matching patterns and shapes to celebrate Easter

  • 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

  • Contractions Word Sums

    Contractions Word Sums

    Practise building and contracting groups of different words using apostrophes to replace the omitted letters in each word pair

  • Fraction Halves

    Fraction Halves

    Identify and record fractions that are halves of different shapes, quantities and numbers using concrete equipment and diagrams to model calculations

  • Weather Postcards

    Weather Postcards

    Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays

  • Kitchen Masses

    Kitchen Masses

    Identify and record how to measure, calculate and compare the masses of different things used in a kitchen working with units in grams and kilograms