This Art and design teacher video explores how to support Year 1 pupils in planning their ideas before creating a final piece of artwork. It introduces age-appropriate approaches to using sketchbooks for exploring ideas, making quick sketches, testing colours and experimenting with different possibilities. The video highlights how planning can help pupils make purposeful artistic choices while maintaining creativity and spontaneity.

The video demonstrates practical teaching strategies, including modelling the planning process, thinking aloud and encouraging pupils to explore different ideas without worrying about achieving a perfect result. It also shows how teachers can support pupils in comparing possibilities, adapting their ideas and deciding which ones to develop further, helping them build confidence and independence in their artistic choices.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Art and design painting videos, which support teachers in developing confidence and subject knowledge as they help children explore creative techniques and express their ideas through art.

See more of our Year 1 Art and design scheme of work.

• Art and design, Year 1, Painting and mixed media: Learning about paint and brush control, Lesson 4: Planning a painting.
• Art and design, Year 1, Painting and mixed media: Learning about paint and brush control.