This worksheet is perfect for classroom, homework or students self-isolating. It should take at least one hour to complete. Higher ability students will probably take up to two hours. Contrast is not an easy concept for students to understand. This worksheet helps students get to grips with it, first by providing context on how artists use contract to create certain effects. A short literacy challenge encourages engagement with the context. The main task requires students to use a range of tones / values with pencil to recreate different levels of contrast. This is an editable word document.

Huichol Art, with its bright colours and simple designs, is ideally suited to inspire students in KS2 and 3. This worksheet includes a quick literacy task and an evaluation task linked to the specified challenges. Ideal lesson for cover or isolating students. There is approximately 2 to 4 hours work included. The editable version of this worksheet can easily be adapted to suit the teachers purpose. A link to some good examples of Huichol Art is included. You may find it helpful to put some of these examples on to a PowerPoint for students to observe. Please leave feedback. Thanks.

Kids love drawing Robots. I designed this worksheet to provide some basic skills and help with later design ideas.

Perfect worksheet for isolation, working from home, homework or cover work. It can also be used for additional challenge and differentiation for targeted students. The worksheet contains a video link to a short video which demonstrates how to do the shading and explains visual language. Specific skills challenges are given, along with a self-evaluation task linked to these challenges. This will help the teacher to identify when and what learning has taken place. Available as a free PDF and an editable word document. Feedback is very welcome.

Ideal Lockdown Lesson. It can be provided to students as a worksheet or split in to tasks over a number of lessons. Takashi Murakami is a fascinating artist, mixing popular Japanese culture with traditional influences. This worksheet includes a literacy challenge, several tasks and guidance for students on evaluating their progress. There are images to demonstrate expectations, providing scaffolding for different levels of ability. There is approximately two hours work but could easily be extended, or developed in the classroom with a range of materials. Studying Murakami is a good link with Pop Art providing a contemporary example of combining commercial and fine art. Please leave feedback.

This worksheet is ideal for normal lessons, cover work, homework or isolating students. It fits into a Day of the Dead Project or can stand alone. The challenges are specific so that the teacher is able to task students with evaluating their work based on specific expectations. Enough work on this sheet to fill up to 3 or 4 hours work time. Plenty of opportunities to extend the tasks and include other materials and scales. The worksheet is either a PDF or Word Document.

This is a stand alone project for home or for school. It is hand drawn PDF with specific tasks: research, study of skills and techniques, developing learning of colour, designing a final piece and constructing the final piece and finally, evaluation. It is possible to complete most of the task on the worksheet. To do this it would be better to print A3. All feedback gratefully received.

This resource is ideal for cover lessons or working from home. It develops children’s imagination as well as their drawing skills. It also helps them to understand how shadows are created. Graffiti artists are often striving to develop an original style. This worksheet helps students understand that imaginative process a designer would go through. The lesson can easily be extended, developing from a single letter to a word. It can also be developed through the use of colour. Feedback is welcome.

With the increasing demands of lesson planning, I thought other art teachers might find these helpful and time saving. Please watch the video to get an idea of what this resource includes. The presentation is PowerPoint so each challenge can be coppied and pasted into your own presentation. There are animations included to keep interest from students. Vinny and Winny VanCough are here so your students can give them advice on how to improve. Some of these challenges would make good homeworks too. I plan to make more so please stay tuned. Feedback is very welcome.

Fun and challenging Lockdown Learning resource. Fully editable and professionally presented. 3D design can be a challenge for remote learning. This resource includes lots of opportunities for practical work which kids will enjoy. It guides them through the making and designing process with videos modeling some of the techniques. There are completed examples so kids can see what the final outcomes might look like. There are starter challenges for retrieval. This is good for KS3 where you might want students to develop an understanding of expectations of the GCSE assessment objectives. Also good for Year 10 who haven’t had the opportunity to practice skills in a range of materials. KS2 would also benefit from this project. The work covers about 6 lessons, depending on the amount of development teachers would expect. It also finishes by encouraging students to begin developing more ideas now that they understand how model and manipulate salt dough. Kids will learn many of the techniques of working with clay which they could then use later when they are back in school. Please leave your feedback.

All the help you will ever need to guide GCSE students in writing for their sketchbooks. Many students can find writing for art extremely challenging. This resource is 18 pages of explanations, exercises, tips and challenges to help students make rapid progress. There are extensive notes accompanying each slide with suggestions for the teacher on how each page might be used. When I have previously used this booklet I did it early in the GCSE course and spaced it out over a term as too much emphasis on writing can inevitably switch kids off. Some of the exercises can be done as homeworks or starter activities. I have produced this booklet as a PowerPoint to provide additional versatility in the way it might be used. For example, teachers may want to use it both as a booklet and presentation, and to add to the presentation examples of work which explain visually the ideas contained with in the booklet. Students work could be added to the presentation so the exercises are better contextualised. Feedback is very welcome.

This resource is designed to celebrate International Women’s Day. There are two parts to the resource (both editable). A worksheet which can be used at home or in the classroom. To complete all tasks would take about 5 hours. Extension activities are included. The Key Learning Challenges are specified for each task. The worksheet encourages students to understand the design in pots created by Native American Women, inspired by the symbolism of their culture. The project could be extended with the creating of a pot and the transference of designs. The second part of this resource is a Power Point. This enables the teaching in the classroom environment. Images/tasks from the worksheet could then be used in a more simplified fashion by removing unnecessary text. I have included some word documents for photocopying for in class use. These could be included for differentiated lessons. Please watch the video which shows the pages of the PowerPoint and the worksheet in full. Since uploading the video I have added another page to the powerpoint which gives additional scaffolding/support for the final design stage. This resource could save hours of planning time and is editable to suit school policies and expectations. Feedback is always appreciated.

This tool is intended to help art teachers to build a long term Curriculum Plan, a Learning Journey, or simply to identify gaps in Schemes of Work. It includes list of skills, observational resources, artistic styles and influences, design skills and values, amongst other things, which could be referenced within your departmental themes. It is not an exhaustive list. You are encouraged to add to it. Every department has its own character. This is far from reflecting every one. This may be helpful in approaching project design from a different point of view. It can be used as a tool to Quality Assure your curriculum coverage. I hope you find it useful. Available as a free PDF and an editable PowerPoint.

Beautifully presented Christmas Quiz - loads of fun categories. Enough categories to last for two or three hours. Perfect for splitting over a couple of days. Answers are all included in the PowerPoint. 12 questions in each category. Fully Editable PowerPoint. Christmas Number Ones Match the Lyric to the Song Name That Christmas Film Christmas Trivia Christmas Traditions (a research challenge) Festive Dingbats Song Intro Challenge (plays recordings of the intro to each song) Twelve Days of Christmas Maths Challenge Includes printable score sheet. Please leave feedback. Thank you.

One of the big problems teaching remotely is that we, as teachers, don’t know what materials kids have at home. This causes major problems, especially for under privileged kids. This series of lessons gets kids to see objects around them as inspiration for art. If kids can see a toilet roll, a peg, a foil tray or a cardboard box as something to make art from, their homes can be opened to a world of possibilities. Feedback is very welcome.

I designed this Learning Journey after looking at several others which appeared random and disconnected in their design. I felt I needed something more methodical and structured to fit with other departmental areas of planning. This Learning Journey is designed for Art Staff use. The editable version can be altered into ‘kid-speak’ to use it for students and parents. It is designed to link with knowledge organisers, medium and long-term planning and lesson plans. Each project identifies the four main areas covered by each project: artistic influences, visual resources, skills mastery and final outcomes. The four project areas covered at KS3 link to the four assessment objectives at KS4. The subcategories for each project are selected from the Project Builder, also available in my TES shop. This is the editable version. It is also available as a free PDF.