Introduce your class to all the ways to be an artist
How to be a screen printer
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-printmaker
How to be a performance artist
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-performance-artist
How to be an illustrator
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-illustrator
How to be a designer
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-okido-designers
How to be a street artist
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-street-artist
How can an art gallery inspire you to tell your own stories?
Watch the film: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/jacqueline-wilsons-magical-tour-tate-britain
Do you know what your senses are? When you touch, smell, see, taste or hear something, you are using one of your senses. A sensory sculpture is a sculpture that uses your senses. You might be able to see it, hear it or smell it!
YOU WILL NEED
A glass or plastic bottle or a jam jar with a lid
Some plasticine or sticky tack to fill the top of the bottle
Scissors
Tape
Water
Food colouring
To add the ‘sensory’ parts of the sculpture you could choose from many different objects. Here are some ideas:
Coloured card, scrap paper or newspaper
Tissue paper or crepe paper
Fabric (maybe an old sock, scarf or t-shirt that you don’t use anymore and can be cut up)
Tin foil or baking parchment
Shiny plastic wrappers or sticky-back plastic
Baking beads
Find the full resource on Tate Kids: www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-sensory-sculpture
As a young girl Rego spent hours drawing in her playroom at her grandmother’s house. She had a great imagination, and remembers that she was ‘afraid of everything’. Her parents encouraged her to become an artist, so she came to London to study at art school.
Rego’s pictures are often inspired by stories – from the traditional folk tales and nursery rhymes she heard her grandmother tell when she was a young girl to books that she has read more recently. Many of her paintings include different characters, and some groups of work tell a story that unfolds over a series of pictures.
Learn more about the artist: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-paula-rego
Grab some paper, scissors, glue and card and make your own DIY 3D paper sculpture, inspired by a sculpture by Michael Bolus.
You will need:
coloured paper, newspaper or scrap paper
old cardboard or card from a cereal box
scissors
glue stick
Find the full activity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEI3clnsyyU
Settle in for a story about artist Etel Adnan. How did she decide to become an artist? What inspired her?
Find the full story here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-etel-adnan
Let’s make a messy mud painting! A mud painting is where you use mud on paper and scratch a design into the surface.
This activity is inspired by an artwork by Jean Dubuffet called ‘Large Black Landscape’ where he scratched into the surface of the paint on his canvas.
To make a mud painting inspired by artist Jean Dubuffet, you will need:
some soil (only a small handful)
a glass of water
a bowl
a stick and some other objects to scratch into the surface with.
We used a coin, a rock and a crayon
Find the full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/make-mud-painting
When life gives you lemons, do you make lemonade? Or will you go bananas?
Stock up on your fruit puns and discover which arty fruit you are!
Play at: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/quiz-which-arty-fruit-are-you
Welcome to the wonderful (and weird) world of Anthea Hamilton. Explore the artist’s life and work: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-anthea-hamilton
Join artist Joey Yu and learn how to paint or draw to a piece of music. Interpret the sounds and draw a dancer dancing across your page!
You will need:
paper
paint (any type will do, or you can use something to draw with like pencils or pens)
brushes
cardboard to use as a palette
water to clean your brush
Find the full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/draw-dancer
Follow along with the video to make a collage using bold shapes, and a collage portrait
You will need:
Scissors
Glue stick
Plain or coloured paper
Colouring pencils, crayons or felt tips
Old magazines, flyers or newspaper. Look for images of things you like or that represent you!
Full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/play-collage
Follow along with artist Joey Yu to draw someone you love and then make them into an installation.
WHAT YOU NEED
Colouring pencils, crayons or felt tips
White and coloured paper
Recycled cardboard or thick card packaging
Scissors
Glue stick
Find full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/draw-friend
Take a colourful treasure hunt walk through your neighborhood or around your house
Full activity here:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/go-on-colour-walk
Have a dig in the recycling bin for some of the materials for this fun DIY make inspired by Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Dada marionettes.
You will need:
two empty loo rolls or a kichen towel roll
tape
string
glue stick
two lollypop sticks to hang the puppet from
four bottle tops for the feet
a piece of old tin foil
scissors
pens or coloured pencils
white paper
a pin or thumb-tack
any other bits you want to decorate with (we used a few paper straws to cover the string for the legs, and a googly eye!)
Find the full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-unicorn-puppet
Do you like the hustle and bustle of city streets, or do you think gravity is so last year? Maybe you think we should all live underwater or share our future with talking animals?
Hop in our time machine and find out which future you should live in!
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/quiz-which-future-should-you-live-in
Be inspired by weaving, words and patterns to make a relaxing artwork.
What you’ll need:
Garden mesh fencing
Scissors
Ribbons or other strips of colourful material
Grid paper
Colouring pencils
Find the full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-criss-cross-artwork
Knitting needles, staples and paint! Take a closer look at all the unusual materials used by Italian artist Marisa Merz
Full story here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-marisa-merz
Stretch out, warm up and join artist Harold Offeh to use your body to make art! Harold shows you how to create shapes with your body, and then make a body print. This 30-minute activity is perfect for teachers to assign as home-learning, or for families to do together.
Find the full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/performance/use-your-body-make-art
Should you be friends with someone who makes you feel one in a million, or with someone you can adventure with?
Play this quiz to find out which artist should be your BFF!
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/quiz-which-artist-should-be-your-bff