Subject: Art and design
Lesson 3: Joining materials
Exploring techniques for joining paper and card; using a range of tools and equipment; making choices about which technique to use.
Lesson 3: 3D landscape art
Creating 3D landscape pictures using natural found objects; using their imagination to choose and arrange objects.
Lesson 3: Painting to music
Using paint to record emotional responses to different pieces of music, creating exciting and expressive paintings.
Sculpture and 3D: Creation station
Exploring the sculptural qualities of malleable materials and natural objects; developing the use of tools and joining techniques; designing and making clay animal sculptures.
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Lesson 1: Clay
Lesson 2: Playdough
Lesson 3: 3D landscape art
Lesson 4: Designing animal sculptures
Lesson 5: Creating animal sculptures
Lesson 6: Painting animal sculptures
Key skills
- Talk about their ideas and explore different ways to record them using a range of media.
- Experiment in an exploratory way.
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Key knowledge
- Form: Modelling materials can be shaped using hands or tools.
- Texture: Simple terms to describe what something feels like (eg. bumpy).
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Key vocabulary
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Modelling clay ×30
- Tuff tray or other flat clean surface ×1
- Playdough ×30
- Playdough tools ×30
- Natural loose materials For example, leaves, twigs, petals, seed pods, bark etc.
- PVA glue, pots and spreaders ×15
- Sticky back plastic ×15
- A selection of small world animals ×8
- Pictures of animals As needed
- Air-drying clay ×1
- Paintbrushes ×30
- Poster or acrylic paint ×8
- Water pots ×15
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Lesson 3: Mark making with chalk
Mark making outdoors with chalk, practising creating patterns in a new medium and identifying similarities and differences between the drawing tools used.
Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses
Developing their ability to work with clay, pupils learn how to create simple thumb pots and explore the work of sculptor Rachel Whiteread.
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Flatten and smooth their clay, rolling shapes successfully and making a range of marks in their clay.
- Make a basic pinch pot and join at least one clay shape onto the side using the scoring and slipping technique.
- Roll a smooth tile surface.
- Join clay shapes and make marks in the tile surface to create a pattern.
- Draw a house design and plan how to create the key features in clay.
- Create a clay house tile that has recognisable features made by both impressing objects into the surface and by joining simple shapes.
Suggested prior learning
Sculpture and 3D: Paper play
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Exploring clay
Lesson 2: Pinch pots
Lesson 3: Applying skills in clay
Lesson 4: Designing a tile
Lesson 5: House tiles
Key skills
- Begin to generate ideas from a wider range of stimuli, exploring different media and techniques.
- Experiment in sketchbooks, using drawing to record ideas.
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Key knowledge
- Form: Pieces of clay can be joined using the ‘scratch and slip’ technique.
- Form: A clay surface can be decorated by pressing into it or by joining pieces on.
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Key vocabulary
flatten
pinch pot
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Clay ×30
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Boards for working on with clay
×30 - Rolling pin ×15
- Modelling tools ×1
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A range of everyday objects that can be pressed into the clay
×30
The equipment below is optional.
- Wire loop tools ×1
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Unit resources
Art and design
Knowledge organiser – Art & design Y2: Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'Clay houses'.
Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design Y2: Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Clay houses'.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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