These are Powerpoints that I have made to help delivery of Art and DT and it is intended for year 2 ‘Puppets’. It is also suitable to use in the History ‘Toys’ unit with year 1. I have included video clips in the presentation which will hopefully help to explain each type of puppet. Enjoy and please give feedback for any improvement. PPT 1 is the Puppets PPT PPT 2 is all about old toys PPT 3 takes a look at Punch and Judy and other puppets

This Power Point explores the topic of Op Art and is intended for upper KS2. It includes work by Bridget Riley and M C Escher. The slides show examples of optical illusions and how artists use lines and colour blocking to create the illusion of movement. Children will be able to get inspiration from the examples to create their own piece.

This is 3 weeks worth of planning for the text, ‘Julian is a Mermaid’ by Jessica Love. There is a 3 week planning document which can be tweaked and annotated to suit your needs, plus some useful worksheets for the accompanying activites, hand made by myself. These are also editable.

Whole unit of planning for Paul Klee, looking at abstract art, posing the question, Can abstract art be understood? This is a PPT presentation which can be modified to suit either half a term or padded out to a whole term. It comes with all of the printing sheets on a seperate PPT. Aimed at Year 2 plus.

Whole unit of planning for Tomoko Kawao, looking at the art of Shodo, Japanese caligraphy, looking at linked artists, Georgia O’Keefe and Kandinsky and posing the question, Can music be seen? Children will be looking at how one can see music as a visual art by creating paired final pieces combining musical instruments with animals to form a hybrid. Lots of fun. This is a PPT presentation which can be modified. It is half a term . It comes with all of the printing sheets on the same PPT. Aimed at Year 2 plus.