Garden Flowers

This art and design scheme of work for Years One and Two in Key Stage One gets the children to develop and refine skills in representing different types of flowers grown in a garden by using a range of painting techniques. The class can try replicating artwork by significant artists to develop their painting skills.

Develop and refine skills in representing different types of flowers grown in a garden by using a range of painting techniques

Lesson One : Fruit Colours

Investigate and record some of the special shades of colours that have been used in different pieces of art representing portrayals of fruits and flowers

Lesson Two : Fruit Shapes

Explore and record some of the shapes and patterns that have been used in still life paintings depicting different pieces of fruit

Lesson Three : Flower Colours

Practise using pastels to record some of the special colour shades that can be seen in different flowers found around the school grounds

Lesson Four : Sunflowers

Explore and record some of the different colours, shapes and patterns that have been used in a painting of some sunflowers by a famous artist

Lesson Five : Flower Vase

Investigate and record how to produce a still life drawing of a vase of flowers as preparation for creating a full painting of the same scene

Lesson Six : Flower Painting

Explore how to select and work with a range of special colour shades when creating a still life painting of a vase filled with flowers

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    Counting Twenty

    Explore how to model and illustrate ways of counting different numbers of objects and pictures with matching sums to twenty

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    Alphabet Lists

    Practise building lists of objects that have been recorded in alphabetical order to match different themes and topics

  • Garden Flowers

    Garden Flowers

    Develop and refine skills in representing different types of flowers grown in a garden by using a range of painting techniques

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    Equal Groups

    Explore and record how to divide numbers of different groups of things into matching equal groups of two, three and four