SCHEME OF WORK: Craft Design Briefs for KS3 - Art as Craft

This is a scheme of 8 lessons focusing on ‘Art as Craft’. Each lesson is planned to take 1-hour long and can be used for either KS3 (and could be adapted for KS4) students to create a series of outcomes based on craft-based techniques, such as repeating patterns and motifs, logo design, adding colour with watercolour paints and desigining a fabric wall hanging.

Students learn about the formal elements of pattern and space, and consider how graphic design can be used to promote artists’ work.

You will need to provide:

Pencils
Cartridge paper
Watercolour paints
Squares of fabric
Squares of paper to produce typography design.

Keywords covered: Colour, Line, Pattern, Motif, Typography.