Lesson Three – Flower Colours

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using pastels to record some of the special colour shades that can be seen in different flowers found around the school grounds.

The class can explain and model how to use a viewfinder to select parts of a picture of some flowers that can be represented by recording the visible colour shades.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using pastels to record some of the special colour shades that can be seen in different flowers found around the school grounds

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the colour shades that can be seen on the petals of different flowers and a worksheet to record some of the colour shades that are visible on flowers that can be found around the school grounds.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use pastels to record the colour shades that can be seen in different flowers found around the school grounds.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to develop and refine skills in representing different types of flowers grown in a garden by using a range of painting techniques. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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