Subject: Art and design
Lesson 1: Craft: Clay
Developing their sculpting and modelling skills, children experiment with using different objects to create interesting textures on the surface of a clay tile
Developing their sculpting and modelling skills, children experiment with using different objects to create interesting textures on the surface of a clay tile
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Children are introduced to 'frottage', tearing their rubbings from the previous lesson to make pictures in the style of the artist who created the technique, Max Ernst
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Learning to see light and shade in a new way, children pick out the shapes of their composition using erasers on a lightly greyed out background
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Having learned about the symbolism used in Picasso's ‘Guernica’, children plan their own composition based upon this famous piece, using symbols reflective of the First World War and plotting contrasting areas of black and white.
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Children use cut out shapes to help them experiment and develop their design ideas
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Pictographs existed even before language did and children use the ever prevalent pictogram of the 21st century, the emoji, to create sentences and convey meaning
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Inspired by the ‘Little Inventors Project’ founded by artist, designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox, children come up with their own ideas of what we're missing in the world, seeing their chosen idea through to a final design
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Inspired by the work of Hundertwasser, children add vibrant colours to an image of a house
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Inspired by the work of Arcimboldo, and using the idea of turning objects into something new, pupils create a fruity face collage.
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