My Square Mile was initiated by the Design Commission for Wales to encourage the use of the local built environment as an educational resource. It explores relationships between buildings, space and people to develop design awareness. It helps children understand how the environment is shaped and managed. It celebrates local distinctiveness and local identity. It nurtures emotional attachments and belonging-a sense of place. It raises issues about what the environment might be like in the future.

This activity introduces the form of art known as 'cubism' to the class. It firstly shows how artists can use shapes to make abstract portraits or 'funny faces.' Pupils look at a picture of a face painted in the cubist style and discuss shapes used, position of facial features and colours chosen. They then have an opportunity to make their own cubist face by following the on-screen instructions which add abstract facial features one at a time to their portrait. Pupils then have the opportunity of choosing a colour scheme for their picture and are able to print it.

This is a colour-mixing activity. It shows pupils what happens when they mix the primary colours red, yellow and blue. Pupils drag and drop colours into a colour-mixing machine that mixes the colours and makes the appropriate secondary colour. Pupils learn the basic colour theory and the terminology 'primary' and 'secondary' colours. They then apply their knowledge to a simple colouring-in exercise where they have a palette of primary colours that they use to make the secondary colours. Follow-up activities using paints have been suggested for pupils to explore colour mixing first hand.

An art activity that teaches the children to sort colours into hot or cold categories.

This interactive whiteboard resource is based on a selection of pictures from the collection at Bodelwyddan Castle. Pictures of industrial scenes are used as the stimulus for discussion and practical work NGfL Cymru is grateful to the Clwyd Fine Art Trust and Joint Area Museum Education Service for allowing works from the collection to be shared amongst schools in Wales.

A resource based on a selection of Peter Prendergast's work from his exhibition 'A Painters Quarry&' held at Oriel Môn in 2006. NGfL Cymru is grateful to Peter Prendergast for allowing his work to be shared amongst schools in Wales. This interactive whiteboard resource uses a selection of Peter Prendergast’s landscapes and figure studies as the stimulus for discussion, critical analysis and practical work.

A whiteboard resource which enables pupils to respond to the work of several Welsh artists. Pupils study and discuss Rural and Industrial Landscapes and undertake practical work involving drawing from direct observation and 3D perspective