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

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.

Free resource includes a exemplar and a video showing how the resource can be used.

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.

I developed this recourse after having classes that struggled to understand how to make letters look ‘blocky’ as often seen in Graffiti letting styles. Students had not studied perspective which was inhibiting their progress. I developed this resource to help students develop their visual understanding of perspective while enjoying graffiti art skills. Students have to complete each letter in a 3D style. There are visual clues which are gradually reduced with each letter. Hopefully, this should enable students to build confidence and identify their progress by the end. An answers sheet is included. A simple extension for more able students is to colour or shade to emphasise the 3D style. They could also add cast shadows. This would make a good retrieval challenge or homework after a lesson in how to draw 3D lettering. 2 A5 worksheets per A4 page. UPDATE: I’ve included a couple of other resources related to this project: A 3D lettering worksheet with leads students to creating their own designs, plus a WAGOLL for the first page of the worksheet.

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 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 resource includes 2 worksheets and provides activity for about 3 hours. It requires students to think as they would if they were brainstorming but in images rather than words. It will open up students imaginations to what could be, as well as learning how one idea connects to another, leading to an avalanche of possibilities. Students are challenged to create as many motifs as possible based on a circle. A few examples are provided to get started. The first worksheet can stand alone if necessary. The second worksheet then teaches students how to refine their areas and to imagine them as a repeat pattern. This project is ideal for cover or to supplement a design project. No prior knowledge is expected and no other resources are required. Challenges (key learning objectives) are specified to help students focus on what they should learn by the end of the project. WAGOLLs (What a good one looks like) are included to help students aspire to the highest standard. Best for KS3 although would make a perfect homework for KS4.

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 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.

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.

Great remote learning activity/ lock-down lesson. Contains a research activity as well as practical tasks. A good activity to think of about at home. A creative way into learning some graphic design/illustration skills. Possible cross-curricular project with Geography. 5 or 6 lessons of work contained within this worksheet. The free PDF version of this worksheet is also available. Feedback is very welcome.

Great remote learning activity/ lock-down lesson. Contains a research activity as well as practical tasks. A good activity to think of about at home. A creative way into learning some graphic design/illustration skills. Possible cross-curricular project with Geography. 5 or 6 lessons of work contained within this worksheet. The editable version of this worksheet is also available. Feedback is very welcome.

Remote Learning resource. Perfect for home learning.

Perfect for remote learning. Between 3 and 4 lessons work. 3 tasks. Students begin by making observational studies of eyes. This challenge is scaffolded . The next task looks at a different way of drawing, using the style of drawing to express meaning. Finally, students can choose between 2 tasks: either an observational study of Courbet’s self portrait, or to recreate it in photography and using themselves as the model. This worksheet is also available as a free PDF.

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.

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.

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 is free resource. The editable version is also available for £1.

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.