My name is Wendy Hobbs and I am an artist who has spent several years working as an HLTA. I was responsible for the art provision across the whole school, covering the full primary range, working closely with teachers to provide PPA cover to blend with their teaching. I am currently home educating my Yr6 child and many of the worksheets have been developed as part of the work we are doing.
Are there any that would enhance your school or home classroom experience?
My name is Wendy Hobbs and I am an artist who has spent several years working as an HLTA. I was responsible for the art provision across the whole school, covering the full primary range, working closely with teachers to provide PPA cover to blend with their teaching. I am currently home educating my Yr6 child and many of the worksheets have been developed as part of the work we are doing.
Are there any that would enhance your school or home classroom experience?
Make it move!
This resource provides a unit of work for Design Technology. It combines Design, Art and Technology to enable students to produce a greeting card with moving parts for a chosen celebration.
The activity will be spread over several sessions, involving exploring and creating mechanisms in the form of sliders, single lever and linkages and then using this knowledge to design, plan and model their own card, before making a final finished card with moving parts.
This resource contains:
In PDF format
Slide and lever worksheets - black and white and colour options
design worksheet
analysis worksheet
printable photo instructions
learning objective printout
teachers notes
Power point presentation with notes
I have used this resource with primary classes from yr2 -yr6 very successfully
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A poster style, A4, colouring sheet, suitable for Mothers’ Day activities. Hand drawn sheet features the word ‘Mum’ surrounded by stylised flowers. Lots of interesting elements for holding attention.
An autumn themed colouring sheet featuring a variety of line drawn leaf shapes decorated with patterns to add interest to the activity. A useful addition to your seasonal classroom resources.
An A3 PDF, (can still be printed as A4) so why not enlarge the sheet further and create a group colouring activity? Completed work could form part of an autumn display.
Complete with pens, pencils or paint, maybe using a limited palette of appropriate colours, warm reds, oranges and yellows, to really create that autumn feel.
Also suitable as an early finisher activity.
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A detailed PDF colouring sheet and Chinese lantern making activity for each of the Chinese Zodiac animals, with the option for students to design their own animal motif if desired, make this a flexible resource.
Also included an A4 colouring poster featuring the 2024 Year of the Dragon motif.
Helpful teachers information included.
PDFs included:
Teachers notes
12 Happy New Year A4 colouring posters, each featuring a different Zodiac animal insert.
Happy New Year colouring poster with blank insert for students to draw their own animal.
Chinese Lantern activity featuring base lantern poster and cut out and colour animal motifs for all 12 of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Motifs presented in full single sheets and mixed sheets to allow for choice in using and easy printing.
A4 Year of the Dragon poster for 2024
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Make your Christmas art count towards meeting your curriculum objectives with this fun and attractive Christmas stocking card.
Students will acquire and apply knowledge about using line forms to create patterns, whilst making a card to take home for families.
Created for Reception/Year1 students.
The resource contains all you need for the lesson except the art materials:
PDF stocking card template
PDF card insert. 3 varieties- Happy Christmas, Seasons Greetings, Blank
PDF ‘How To’ photo illustrated instructions for the activity
PowerPoint presentation introducing the activity and teaching about line and pattern
PDF teachers notes to accompany PPT presentation
PDF assessment sheet for possible objectives that are covered in this lesson
PDF Stocking colouring sheet, added activity
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A bumper pack of 16 christmas colouring printouts.
4 colour and fold cards, reindeer, snowman, santa and christmas tree
4 colouring sheets featuring the cover illustrations from the above cards, reindeer, snowman, santa and Christmas tree
4 modern/ abstract colouring sheets, tree, star, present and baubles - colour the different geometric sections to highlight the Christmas shapes. Try using warm and cold colours for maximum effect.
Traditional nativity colouring sheet
Snowflake colouring sheet
Traditional tree with presents colouring sheet
Snowman colouring sheet
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Christmas ‘Post a Hug’. A seasonal, fun art activity, designed to incorporate elements of the primary art curriculum, suitable for the multicultural classroom.
Let your students send a virtual hug to those they cannot see or who may be on their own this Christmas with this adaptable seasonal craft.
This art and design activity allows children to design and make a stand up greeting card with open hugging arms.
It offers teachers a way to include curriculum elements, adding educational value to these seasonal tasks.
The number of elements used can be adapted to what is appropriate for the class concerned, offering a very flexible resource in terms of content and age range.
The activity requires minimal resources, white A4 card for photocopying, pencils, fine liners/biros, coloured pencils, scissors, envelopes.
Post a Hug resource pack includes:
PDF template for Post a Hug card
PDF template for card inserts, blank and lined.
‘Pattern’ PowerPoint presentation
‘Colour’ PowerPoint presentation
PDF step by step photo instructions
PDF Teachers notes offering guidance to curriculum use, materials needed and possible session ordering.
Curriculum needs that can be met using this resource pack:
Elements of art - Using repeating man made patterns to create designs.
Studying and using colour combinations/theory to enhance their design.
Learning to meet a design criteria.
Knowledge of makers/craft skills and transferring this to their own work
Self portrait skills
Accurate folding and cutting skills.
Cross curricular elements could also be added by tying to English, informal letter writing, and community involvement.
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This World Oceans Day resource pack is ideal for home learning for any ocean based topic. The pack consists of practical art and craft activities along with a variety of themed page borders for topical writing exercises.
Contains:
Ocean box theatre. step by step photo instructions with a page of sea creature printables.
Junk modelling sea creatures ideas and instructions. photo instructions and examples to make a variety of sea creatures using plastic milk bottles, no glue needed for most models.
3D paper turtle craft. photocopiable sheet to colour, cut out and assemble a turtle.
Turtle and jellyfish/plastic bag writing borders
Shark writing border
World ocean day colouring sheet(also available as free download)
Fish colouring sheet (from animal classification pack)
Turtle colouring page
How to draw a whale.
A pair of stocking templates to add interest to your Christmas writing activities and displays,
Will you be writing Christmas wish lists or describing the Christmas preparations?
The resource consists of 3 PDFs :
Blank and lined stocking templates - A4. Students can design their own stockings on the blank template and add their written work to the back on the lined one. (will print double sided if required) String the finished stockings across the class room for a festive display.
Lined stocking templates with blank/colour in border - A4 Choose from 3 different border designs, snowflakes, stars and stripes, or let students design their own to highlight their writing. Ideal for mounting on a wall display.
Christmas stocking colouring sheet for a bit of festive fun.
This detailed, hand drawn colouring/work sheet is ideal to use when celebrating the coronation of King Charles with your students.
PDF featuring the Orb, Sceptre and St. Edward’s Crown traditionally used in the coronation ceremony.
This resource is provided free of charge to allow access for all to celebrate this event.
Many more resources for curriculum based topics can be found in TheArtTA’s shop. If you have found this resource useful please take a look.
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A hand drawn colouring sheet featuring a cartoon style rocket, astronaut and views of earth and moon. This is suitable for colouring or as a writing prompt as required.
Use the decorated letters as inspiration to embellish your own ‘Happy Christmas’ to colour in.
Ideal seasonal early finisher activity, or for use on its own. Finished designs could be used to decorate Christmas cards.
Celebrate the Coronation of King Charles with this resource containing an activity for students to make and/or design a model paper crown, based on the Imperial State Crown.
An updated version of this highly popular resource created for the Queen’s Jubilee.
Various template options (plain and with lots of detail to colour) are included to enable teachers to adapt the activity to the resources they have available and the objectives of their art lesson.
More than just a colouring exercise suggestions for art curriculum objectives are included.
Suitable for a wide age range due to adaptability.
Use these crowns to allow students to exercise their design skills and decorate your classroom for the jubilee.
This activity is supplied free of charge to enable as many as possible to participate in the celebrations.
Many more resources for curriculum based topics can be found in TheArtTA’s shop. If you have found this resource useful please take a look.
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One of those random things that can be needed in a primary school at Christmas!
Print onto card and either, attach base of camel’s face to a headband made from a ring of card so it doesn’t cover the child’s face, or attach to a stick so it can be held up when needed.
Hopefully this might save someone some time!
This resource features a line drawing of a hatched egg in a nest. Designed to prompt a students imagination as to what sort of creature may have hatched from it, this worksheet can be used for both drawing and writing tasks. Students can draw their creature, real or imaginary, then annotate it with descriptive words or phrases, which can then be used in a piece of descriptive writing.
An original line drawing to colour in and send Easter Greetings. The resource features a fun A4 ‘Happy Easter’ colouring sheet, along with a ready to print folded A4 version for card making.
