Lesson Five – Rainy Day

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and mix a range of different colour shades to use when painting a picture showing a view from a window on a rainy day.

The class can identify and explain how to use colours and brush strokes in their paintings to evoke different ideas and feelings about what it is like to be outside in the rain.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and mix a range of different colour shades to use when painting a picture showing a view from a window on a rainy day

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe shapes, colours and patterns caused by the rain to use as a stimulus for their artwork and identify and describe how rain can be depicted in paintings and a template to record and plan elements for a painting depicting the effect of rain on a landscape.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to mix colour shades to paint a picture showing a view from a window on a rainy day.

This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to practise different techniques of painting scenes depicting a specific type of rain to simulate natural phenomena in a range of different landscapes. 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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