Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify and describe some of the sounds that can reflect objects and places used in different paintings and a template to select and record sounds that they can hear in a painting by a famous artist using picture and word clues.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to create sounds to represent life in a landscape painting by Van Gogh using percussion instruments to match selected vocabulary words.

This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to investigate the style and structure of different compositions by a famous musician and create sounds to represent a particular place or landscape. There are teaching activities for shared learning, activity worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.