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?
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 resource features a model/worksheet showing the Earth in cross section, overlaid with examples of plate boundaries. The activity aims to provide a visual example to help students understand the zones within the Earth and to be able to place tectonic processes in relation to these.
The model involves an A4 base sheet to which sections are attached using a split pin to show the types of plate boundary that can be found.
2 versions, and a set of instructions are included.
Blank version (including instructions). This features only the drawings for the model leaving the freedom for students to complete the labelling and add further information in line with your own lesson content, e.g. thickness or composition of zones within the Earth.
Labelled version. This can be used as an activity in it’s own right where students are not required to record information, or as an example of possible labelling.
I have intended it to be a resource that is not prescriptive in its content and can be adapted to allow students to record their knowledge and understanding of the subject as they have been taught it.
Various pieces of the model can be selected for use to fit in with the teaching content and objectives of the lesson, or added on over subsequent lessons as the subject knowledge is developed.
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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.
This resource features a clear, A4, line drawing of a volcano in cross section, suitable for annotating by students studying tectonics and geological forces.
No labelling is included on the worksheet, leaving you free to allow students to identify the features you require for your lesson.
Features included are: ash cloud, pumice/lava bombs, lava, magma chamber, main vent, side vent, layers showing build up of cone from previous eruptions.
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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.
This resource features a set of PDF worksheets relating to Animal Classification. Each features a smaller version of the popular animal classification drawing sheets above a lined section for students to record their learning on the subject.
Use to list the characteristics of each group or to describe one of the animals featured in the drawings.
A set of labeled drawings are included to help identification.
The Animal Classification colouring sheets are available to purchase separately or both resources can be purchased together in the ‘Animal Classification Bundle’
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Bundle comprising of Animal Classification colouring/ activity sheets resource and Animal Classification worksheets.
Featuring a hand drawn illustration for each of the 6 groups within the animal classification topic for primary students, Birds, Mammals, Fish, Invertebrates, Amphibians and Reptiles, this versatile resource will appeal visually to students and can be used to spark discussion around the topic as well as enhance topic books.
Included: A4 drawing sheets for each classification group, worksheets featuring the same illustration with space for written work, species key illustration for identifying the animals featured and ideas for how the resource could be incorporated into subject teaching.
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A set of 8 printable page borders for use with activities during world oceans day or studying oceans as a topic.
These borders are created using hand drawn images of turtles, jelyfish and plastic bags.
Choice of borders to also support use with ocean pollution topics
The set consists of 2 designs:
Turtles and jellyfish
Turtles, jellyfish and plastic bags
Each of which is presented in 4 different ways, to suit use in a variety of activities:
Black and white line drawing, blank centre area
Black and white line drawing, lined centre area
Coloured image, watercolour effect, blank centre area
Coloured image, watercolour effect, lined centre area
These sheets would be ideal for written work produced within an oceans topic area, e.g. poems, that are to be displayed.
Why not use unlined sheets as a starter for children’s own interpretations in the central space?
The borders featuring line drawings can be coloured in by the pupils if desired.
This activity, to make a standing sheep, was originally devised for a Reception class as part of a Spring based learning theme, but can be adapted to suit a wider age and ability range. Some ideas for this are contained within the resource.
The resource contains instructions and a materials list for the activity and a photocopy template to construct the 3D standing sheep.
The activity involves gluing, folding, drawing and construction skills. Scissor skills could also be used.
It also involves visualizing how a 2D shape can become a 3D form.
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!
A mixed media, art activity to make a Sakura, or Cherry Blossom, branch using collage and coloured pencil techniques.
This original activity aims to use materials that should be accessible for home learning.
The activity is set out as a step by step tutorial, featuring photos and text, over two pages.
Materials needed: Cardboard, magazine pictures, glue, pencil, coloured pencils, cotton bud, vegetable oil, scissors, white paper.
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.
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.
A worksheet pack for the lifecycle of a bean plant. (Alternative sheets are available for sunflower and tomato plants, or as a bundle of all three.)
This adaptable resource contains a PDF featuring the following 4 sheets:
• ‘Lifecycle of a plant’ worksheet featuring line drawings of each lifecycle stage. Ready for students to annotate themselves or add the key words provided.
• Titled ‘Lifecycle of a plant’ blank worksheet. Students can illustrate this themselves, or use the accompanying pictures and key words to complete.
• Line drawings of each stage of the plants lifecycle, suitable for ordering and adding to the blank worksheet. 2 sets of drawings per sheet
• Key words strip containing a variety of relevant terms to add to the lifecycle or use as reference. 4 sets per sheet.
The user can mix and match the elements they require, combining them to produce a unit most suited to their scheme of teaching and class needs.
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A worksheet pack for the lifecycle of a sunflower plant. (Alternative sheets are available for tomato and bean plants, or as a bundle of all three.)
This adaptable resource contains a PDF featuring the following 4 sheets:
• ‘Lifecycle of a plant’ worksheet featuring line drawings of each lifecycle stage. Ready for students to annotate themselves or add the key words provided.
• Titled ‘Lifecycle of a plant’ blank worksheet. Students can illustrate this themselves, or use the accompanying pictures and key words to complete.
• Line drawings of each stage of the plants lifecycle, suitable for ordering and adding to the blank worksheet. 2 sets of drawings per sheet
• Key words strip containing a variety of relevant terms to add to the lifecycle or use as reference. 4 sets per sheet.
The user can mix and match the elements they require, combining them to produce a unit most suited to their scheme of teaching and class needs.
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