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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Painting and mixed media: Paint my world
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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
Key knowledge
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)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Paint
- Paint palette ×30
- Natural objects For example, feathers, grass, flower buds or heads, leaves twigs, pine cones.
- Collected Sticks
- String
- Scissors right- and left-handed options recommended. ×30
- Mud
- Bowls or Containers
- Spoon or sticks for mixing mud paint
- A painting surface
- Paintbrushes ×30
- Water pots
- Mixed-media scraps For example, crepe paper, fabric, tissue paper, corrugated card, magazines, ribbon, wool, foil etc.
- Glue stick ×30
- Pva glue, pots and spreaders ×1
- Sticky tape
- Loose parts (buttons, corks, bottle lids etc.)
- Devices to take photos ×8
- Magazines
- Teabags
- Post-it notes ×30
The equipment below is optional
- Tarpaulin
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Paint
- Paint palette ×30
- Natural objects For example, feathers, grass, flower buds or heads, leaves twigs, pine cones.
- Collected Sticks
- String
- Scissors right- and left-handed options recommended. ×30
- Mud
- Bowls or Containers
- Spoon or sticks for mixing mud paint
- A painting surface
- Paintbrushes ×30
- Water pots
- Mixed-media scraps For example, crepe paper, fabric, tissue paper, corrugated card, magazines, ribbon, wool, foil etc.
- Glue stick ×30
- Pva glue, pots and spreaders ×1
- Sticky tape
- Loose parts (buttons, corks, bottle lids etc.)
- Devices to take photos ×8
- Magazines
- Teabags
- Post-it notes ×30
The equipment below is optional
- Tarpaulin