Lesson Five – Vase of Flowers

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to select and use special methods of mixing primary colour shades to produce a still life painting of a vase of flowers.

The class can explain and model how to combine pairs of colours to mix some different colour shades that can be used to represent the petals visible on a flower.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to select and use special methods of mixing primary colour shades to produce a still life painting of a vase of flowers

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the shades of colours that can be seen in different flowers and worksheet to record the shades that can be created by mixing different colour shades to use when painting flower petals.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use special methods of mixing primary colours to paint a still life of a vase of flowers.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to explore and model how to select, mix and use shades of different colours using a range of artwork techniques in a still life painting of a vase of flowers. 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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