The Big Draw: Event certificate

This event certificate is provided by The Big Draw Festival 2023 to award pupils for their achievements in art and creativity! Enjoy our free art activities, then print and customise your certificates with the pupils’ names, school name, and date.

The Big Draw: Activity Ideas For The Senses

Kapow Primary is delighted to be a sponsor-partner of The Big Draw 2023, which is running for October.

For those who want to delve deeper into this year’s theme, ‘Drawing with the senses’, we’ve created this document, which is brimming with activity ideas, each centred around a specific sense and inspired by a renowned artist.

These activity ideas are designed for seamless integration into your current teaching framework, and we encourage you to share them with your entire school and get everyone creative this October.

The Big Draw: A Month Of Art Activities

As a sponsor-partner, our free calendar has you covered for an effortless and enjoyable way to join The Big Draw Festival 2023 this October.

It offers a new sensory-inspired drawing activity for each school day over four weeks – a perfect way to kickstart your day or take a quick, creative break. Share these activities with your school community for sparks of creativity and a chance for pupils to explore the world around them.

Printable template: Pie chart

This template is designed to support our ‘The Big Draw: A Month Of Art Activities‘ to enhance an art activity centred around the sense of taste.

Printable template: Pair of glasses

To enhance your experience with ‘The Big Draw: A Month Of Art Activities‘, this printable template is available for you to use in completing an art activity.

Geography song: Continents

This Geography video introduces pupils to the seven continents through a fun and easy-to-follow song. With catchy lyrics and simple repetition, it helps pupils learn to name and identify the continents, while also developing an early understanding of their relative sizes and locations. The video encourages active participation and is ideal for embedding geographical vocabulary in an engaging way.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Geography Key stage 1 and Mixed-age resources. It supports pupils in developing locational knowledge and global awareness through music and movement.

Geography song: Compass directions

This Geography video helps pupils memorise and understand compass directions through a catchy and energetic song. Using repetition and movement, the video reinforces the key directional terms — north, east, south, and west — as well as the combinations of northeast and southwest. It supports pupils in building early locational skills and spatial awareness in an engaging and accessible way.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Geography Key stage 1 resources. It provides a musical and kinaesthetic approach to embedding fundamental geographical vocabulary and concepts in Year 1.