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
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Key knowledge

  • Colour: The names of
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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
  • 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
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