Lesson One – What Colours

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify, describe and compare the range of colour shades that have been used in a still life painting of some special types of flowers.

The class can match the names of colour shades for reds, blues, yellows and greens to some of the different painted elements in a painting of some flower heads and petals.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and compare the range of colour shades that have been used in a still life painting of some special types of flowers

Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to identify and describe the colour shades that have been used in paintings of different flowers, a set of cards to match the names of colour shades to painted elements in a painting of flowers and a vocabulary word bank to select words to use when writing a description of a still life painting of flowers.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe the range of colour shades that have been used in a still life painting of some 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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