Subject: Art and design
Lesson 2: Outdoor painting
Collecting materials and objects from nature to make painting tools; children use these to create abstract and figurative art.
Painting and mixed media: Paint my world
Exploring paint and painting techniques through nature, music and collaborative work. Developing creativity through child-led exploration of mixed-media, making collages and transient art.
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Lesson 1: Finger painting
Lesson 2: Outdoor painting
Lesson 3: Painting to music
Lesson 4: Collage and transient art
Lesson 5: Landscape collage
Lesson 6: Group art
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
- Colour: The names of a wide range of colours.
- Colour: Colours can be mixed to make new colours.
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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
- Paint ×8
- Paint palette ×30
- Natural objects For example, feathers, grass, flower buds or heads, leaves twigs, pine cones. As needed
- Collected Sticks ×30
- String ×30
- Scissors right- and left-handed options recommended. ×30
- Mud As needed
- Bowls or Containers ×15
- Spoon or sticks for mixing mud paint ×15
- A painting surface ×15
- Paintbrushes ×30
- Water pots ×8
- Mixed-media scraps For example, crepe paper, fabric, tissue paper, corrugated card, magazines, ribbon, wool, foil etc. ×15
- Glue stick ×30
- PVA glue
- Sticky tape
- Loose parts (buttons, corks, bottle lids etc.) ×30
- Digital camera ×8
- Magazines ×8
- Teabags ×15
- Paper ×30
The equipment below is optional
- Tarpaulin
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Lesson 2: Mark making with felt tips
Investigating felt tips as a tool for mark making and developing fine motor skills as they create patterns.
Sculpture & 3D: Abstract shape
Transforming 2D card shapes into 3D structures and sculptures; exploring abstract shapes and space, developing skills in constructing 3D objects, and understanding the difference between 2D and 3D art.
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Try out different ways to make card shapes three dimensional, e.g. folding and curving the card or joining the flat shapes together.
- Make a structure that holds its 3D shape.
- Explain in simple terms the difference between 2D and 3D art.
- Combine shapes together to make an interesting free-standing sculpture.
- Try out more than one way to create joins between shapes.
- Identify familiar 2D shapes in photographs.
- Identify shapes in the negative space between objects.
- Draw a cardboard model from different angles, focusing on shapes in the positive and negative space to achieve an abstract effect.
- Plan an abstract sculpture based on play equipment.
- Show that they have learned how to shape materials in more than one way (e.g. by folding and rolling).
- Choose appropriate methods for joining elements in their sculptures.
- Show that they have thought about how to improve their sculptures and made choices about what to add.
- Work cooperatively in pairs to add detail to their artwork.
Suggested prior learning
Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Structural shapes
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Lesson 2: Constructing in 3D – Christmas themed
- To join materials in different ways when working in 3D.
Lesson 3: Seeing space
Lesson 4: Abstract sculpture
Lesson 5: Surface decoration
Key skills
- Generate ideas from a range of stimuli and carry out simple research and evaluation as part of the making process.
- Confidently use of a range of materials and tools, selecting and using these appropriately with more independence.
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Key knowledge
- Colour: Using light and dark colours next to each other creates contrast.
- Form: Three dimensional forms are either organic (natural) or geometric (mathematical shapes, like a cube).
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Key vocabulary
abstract
found objects
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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
- Strong card; packaging boxes or similar (the equivalent of a large box per child) ×30
- Cereal box cardboard ×8
- PVA glue
- Long cardboard tubes ×8
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Clean newspaper sheets
×8 - Kitchen roll tubes ×30
- Pipe cleaners ×30
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Paper for adding texture (such as: tissue, crepe, parcel paper)
×15
The equipment below is optional
- A selection of Straws
- A selection of Junk modelling packaging
- Coloured acetate sheets ×30
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Resources
Unit resources
Art and design
Knowledge organiser: Art & design – Sculpture and 3D: Abstract shape and space
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit "Sculpture and 3D: Abstract shape and space".
Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design Y3: Abstract shape and space
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Abstract shape and space unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Design and technology: Technical knowledge
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes
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Sculpture and 3D: Mega materials
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