Art & Nature Unit || Week 1 of 6 || Nature Walk & Collage

Week 1 of 6- A no-prep lesson that opens a course on the use of nature within art. Gets children outside exploring, and it is perfect for teaching in Fall, Summer or Spring with Grades 1-3!

This product contains a 13-slide Teaching PowerPoint that guide students through learning the basics of groupings in nature (flora and fauna), and walks them through exploring the outdoors, taking an interest in the world around them and creating a collage using the objects they find, pens and paper.

This activity can be conducted as a class, or in smaller wellbeing groups to work on mindfulness or calming SEN children during the chaos of the school day. The focus is on talking about the items that they find, exploring patterns in nature, and lateral thinking when creating a collage based on examples on the slides.

This lesson is likely to take 1-1.5 hours, involving a nature walk that could be as short or as long as you like!

This product contains 4 activities, including:

• ‘What do we already know?’ questioning activity about natural objects
• Grouping activity with manipulative images on PPT slides
• Exploration task involving magnifying glasses
• Nature collage task involving pens and paper

This download includes:

• A 13-slide Teaching PowerPoint
• ‘How to use this product’ explanation within the PPT
• Outline of the planning with links to accessing the rest of the course
• 3 fonts for editing .ppt & .docx documents
• Links to websites for extra inspiration, if needed!