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Pathway: Fashion Design

This is featured in the ‘Fashion Design’ pathway

Talking Points: Hormazd Narielwalla

Talking Points: Tatyana Antoun

Talking Points: Alice Fox

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Pathway: Cloth, thread, paint

This is featured in the ‘Cloth, Thread, Paint’ pathway

Talking Points: Frank Bowling

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Pathway: Stick Transformation project

This is featured in the ‘Stick Transformation Project’ pathway

Talking Points: treehouses

Pathway for Years 1 & 2

Disciplines:
Sculpture, Drawing, Collage

Key Concepts:

• That there is a relationship between drawing & making – we can transform 2d to 3d.

• That we can use observational drawing and experimental mark-making together to make art.

• That we can work from similar stimulus or starting point but end up with very different individual results.

• That the individual results can then be brought together to make a whole artwork. 

In this pathway children continue to develop their understanding of sculpture and build their making skills.

The exploration starts with careful looking and drawing, and from this “grounded” basis children are encouraged to take creative risks by using experimental mark-making with a variety of media.

Children are then invited to explore how they can manipulate their drawings in an intuitive way to make 3d forms. Paper is twisted, folded, crumpled to become 3d and added to a simple structure. Children explore balance to finally created an individual bird.

The class birds can then be brought together to make a “flock” – with each child’s artwork valued as part of the whole.

Themes:
Birds, Wildlife, Local habitat

Medium:
Paper (sugar and cartridge), Soft pencils, wax crayons, watercolours, pastels, graphite, scissors, glue sticks, cardboard or foamboard, paper clips or wire.

Artists:
A variety (see resource)

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Please find the CPD session recording of the Making Birds pathway here.

Find an In The Studio session recording exploring observational and experimental drawing of feathers here.

Curriculum Links

Geography: Use language which supports understanding about continents (migration), maps, habitats.  

Maths: Explore the relationship between 2D/3D shapes, weight, measuring. 

Science: Explore birds, habitats, seasons, food chain 

PSHE: Supports Peer Discussion, Collaboration, Responsibility to the planet. 

I Can…

• I can look carefully at photos and films of birds, take in the details and overall shapes, and then made drawings of what I have noticed.

• I can drawn from life looking closely.

• I can experiment with a variety of drawing materials and test ways to make marks that describe what I see.  

• I can use colour in my drawings and mix two or more different media together.

• I have looked at the work of other artists who have been inspired by birds and I can share my response to their work.

• I can fold, tear, crumple and collage paper to transform it from 2d to 3d.

• I can use a variety of materials to make my own sculpture, and I have taken on the challenge of making my sculpture balance and stand.

• I have seen how my sculpture can be part of a class artwork. I can see how all our sculptures are individual.

• I can share my work with my classmates and teachers, and consider what was successful for me.

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Sketchbooks, soft pencils, coloured pencils, handwriting pens, oil/chalk pastels, feathers, A2 cartridge, sugar paper, newsprint. 

Project 1: Rubbings- Small objects, wax crayons. 

Project 2: Drawing Fur (adapt to feathers) – Feathers, pastels, soft pencils.  

Corrugated card or foamboard, wire or paper clips, glue sticks.

Pathway: Making Birds

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  This pathway aims to help children begin to understand the relationship between drawing and making, 2d and 3d. Pupils explore how to transform materials into sculpture, moving from mark making to balance and structure. 

• Week 1: Drawing as Research
  

  Drawing from Photographic Sources

  

  Visit the free to access “Drawing Source Material: Birds” resource to find films of birds shown in close-up.

  Pause the films at various points so that children can work in their sketchbooks to make drawings of birds.

  Encourage close and slow looking by talking as they draw – use your voice to attract their attention to features of the bird.

  Create momentum with the drawing by inviting pupils to make drawings of various timed lengths, before moving on to the next paused image/drawing.

  Experiment with a variety of media: soft B pencils, handwriting pens, pastels.

• Week 2: Developing Skills
  

  Drawing from Observation & Experimental Mark-Making

  

  Explore the “Feathers: Perfect for Mark-Making” resource.

  This time working from real feathers rather than photographic imagery, encourage the children to take creative risks and explore how they can draw feathers using a variety of mediums.

  Work in sketchbooks or on larger pieces of paper (A3) and experiment with how the paper size changes the nature of the mark-making (for example use sugar paper and cartridge paper).

  You might like to show pupils this work by artist Andrea Butler, in which Andrea shares how she uses the textures and colours within birds to inspire her artwork. 

• Week 3: Working Slowly Towards 3d
  

  Manipulating Paper from 2D to 3D

  

  Still working on paper, but this time on sheets of newsprint, sugar and cartridge paper, pupils will explore what happens when you fold, tear, crumple paper and start to manipulate it towards 3d forms. 

  Explore these three resources and decide which elements you would like to explore with your children:

  • Making Rubbings

  • Turning Paper Into Fur (adapt to feathers)

  • Manipulating Paper 2d into 3d

  Make sure you encourage playful exploration and celebrate invention. Pupils are not working towards a fixed outcome, instead they are developing making and creativity skills. 

• Week 4, 5: Watch & Make
  

  Explore Sculpture

  Pupils are now going to start making their sculptures.

  

  Watch the “What Is Sculpture” animation if you didn’t watch it with the class earlier in the year.

  

  Take a look at the free to access “Talking Points: Inspired by Birds” resource if you’d like to talk about how other artists have been inspired by birds. Work in sketchbooks guided by the “Show Me What You See” resource.

   

  

  Use the “Making Birds” resource to enable children to pull all their learning together and make small sculptures. 

• Week 6: Celebrate
  

  Reflect & Share

  Finally make time to display the birds as a “flock”. Here is an opportunity to talk about many pieces made by separate people can be exhibited as a single artwork.

  Use the “Crit” resource to help you explore how to talk about the work.

  

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Challenge students to create sculptural birds

swoop

Explore birds and migration

flock

Create a school installation featuring a personalised bird from each child

Pathway for Years 1 & 2

Disciplines:
Sculpture, Drawing

Key Concepts:

• That when we make art in 3 dimensions it is often called Sculpture.

• That we can generate ideas through playful exploration.

• That we can build understanding of the properties of materials through manipulation.

• That making sculpture is a partnership between materials, ideas, hands and tools.

• That we can reflect upon our intention when we see our ideas made physical.

In this pathway children are introduced to what sculpture can be, and invited to explore the work of other sculptors whilst taking a playful and inventive approach to making their own sculptures.

The pathway encourages children to start voicing their response to sculptural artworks, including their own, and to give them time and space to explore properties of materials, and what happens when you join one or more materials together to construct new forms.

Theme:
Transformation & Invention

Medium:
Construction Materials (card, paper, wood, wire, string, fabric including recycled and found objects)

Artists:
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Faith Bebbington, Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

This pathway will take approximately half a term, based upon a weekly art lesson.

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Curriculum Links

Geography: Adapt the playful making approach to make sculptures of ports and harbours, towns, cities, villages, The Great Wall of China etc.

Maths: Uses language to support understanding of 2D/3D shapes, sequence, measuring, position & direction.

Science: Uses language to support understanding of properties and manipulation of materials.

PSHE: Collaboration, responsibility to the planet.

I Can…

• I have explored what we mean by “sculpture” and I thought about what I like about different pieces of sculpture.

• I can use my sketchbook to make drawings inspired by sculptures I have seen, to help me think about what I like, and to remember what I have seen. 

• I can use my hands to make small sculptures out of lots of different materials. I can bend, twist, fold, cut and fasten. 

• I can use my hands to make sculptures without designing first. I can just see what happens if…

• I can discover that sometimes working with materials is hard work – things break or my fingers hurt – but that is all ok!

• I can share my work and listen to what other people like about it. 

• I can look at other people’s work and sometimes share what I like about it with them. 

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

A3 Sugar paper, handwriting pens.  

Construction Materials (see list here )

Pathway: Playful Making

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  This pathway aims to introduce children to the idea of Design through Making: a playful approach to exploring materials and constructing sculpture. 

• Week 1. Introduce the idea of “Sculpture”
  

  What Is Sculpture?

  Use the “What Is Sculpture?” resource to introduce children to the idea that when we make art in 3 dimensions it is often called Sculpture.

• Talk
  

  Enable Children to Be Curious & Articulate

  Use the animation above as a starting point to talk about Sculpture made by Sculptors.

  Use the artworks and questions on the free to access “Talking Points: Introduction to Sculpture” to help children explore sculpture made by other artists. 

  

  Explore the work of artists Linda Bell and Nnena Kalu through free to access “Talking Points: Linda Bell” and “Talking Points: Nnena Kalu“.

• Work in Sketchbooks
  

  Show Me What You See

  Invite pupils to make drawings of the sculptures using the free to access “Talking Points: Introduction to Sculpture” resource above. Create drawings in sketchbooks inspired by the videos and images using “Show Me What You See“. 

  

  Remember that children are using drawing as a way of collecting information and adding their own thoughts. They can also add words etc (no need for sentences). 

  Remember there is no need/requirement to add learning objectives to sketchbooks or to mark the pages in any way. 

• Week 2. Start Making
  

  The AccessArt Making Prompt Cards

  Time to let the children explore materials and tools and connect hand, heart and head. Before you introduce children to this activity, watch “Design through Making“.

   

  

  In this warm up session, introduce children to “The AccessArt Making Prompt Cards” a wide range of materials and invite them to make in a playful way without a predefined outcome in mind. 

  Openly invite the children to explore the materials without “knowing” what they will make (“We are going to be explorers and inventors…”). This comes easy to young children and we tend to grow out of it as we get older – but it’s an important skill to acknowledge and retain. 

  Collect together materials on the materials list in the Teacher notes column, and choose one or more of the prompts. 

  

  At the end of the session, tidy the room and clear a space to show the “sculptures” made. Remember these are just “doodles” of materials – and are the first stage in exploring the properties of materials, and how we can connect and combine to make new objects. 

  Ask the children to try to guess the prompt card used, and to talk about the sculptures as a class. 

• Week 3 & 4. Find Your Focus
  

  Make Your Sculpture

  Choose from one of the projects below, or adapt a similar approach to your own area of focus/curriculum theme.

   

  

  All the resources below share the common aim of enabling children to explore materials, simple tools and their ideas, with plenty of freedom to play and invent. 

  Give children plenty of time and space to explore, take creative risks, discover and share, without working towards a predefined outcome. Encourage and celebrate individuality.

  Have sketchbooks open on tables and encourage children to make notes (whatever form they take), and record and reflect.

• Project 1
  

  Creativity Medals

  

  Jan Miller is an Art and Design Technology teacher and magazine editor with 25 years’ experience. Invite children to create imaginative and unique “Creativity Medals” using recycled materials.

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• Project 2
  

  Making a Roller Coaster

  

  KS1 children use their imaginations and sense of fun to collaborate to create a “Model Roller Coaster” with moving parts. 

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  Or…

• Projects 3 & 4
  

  Boats That Float & Sea Creatures

  Both these projects were illustrated with older children, but they follow the same playful making approach. Adapt by keeping tools simpler (ie scissors, but no pliers or glue guns).

  Boats That Float 

  Sea Creatures

• Week 5/6
  

  Presenting, Talking, Sharing, Documenting & Celebrating

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Invite children to display the work in a clear space, and walk around the work as if they are in a gallery. Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the children of their hardwork.

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document their work, working in pairs or teams. Think about how the work is lit and what it is displayed on. Encourage them to feel able to change the background, turn the sculpture around etc. Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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Making shells

Create shells out of recycled materials

Cardboard challenge

Get children thinking about how they can make something stand

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Pathway: Expressive Painting

This is featured in the ‘Expressive Painting’ pathway

Pathway for Years 1 & 2

Disciplines:
Drawing, Collage, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That drawing is a physical and emotional activity. That when we draw, we can move our whole body.

• That we can control the lines we make by being aware of how we hold a drawing tool, how much pressure we apply, and how fast or slow we move.

• That we can draw from observation or imagination.
  

• That we can use colour to help our drawings engage others.

In this pathway children are enabled to build an understanding about the way they can make marks on a drawing surface. They explore how the way they hold a drawing tool, and move their bodies, will affect the drawings they make. 

Children will begin to explore mark-making and experiment with how they can use the marks they make in their drawings. 

They are introduced to the fact that they can make drawings as a result of observation, without a seen subject matter. (i.e. from action or imagination) and that they can make drawings as a result of observation. Through their drawings children are able to talk about what they can see and how it makes them feel. 

The focus of the exploration is around spirals – an ancient symbol which we all recognise, and which lends itself to conversations around growth, movement and structure. 

Children are introduced to sketchbooks as a place of personal exploration, and enabled to make a sketchbook or personalise a bought sketchbook. 

Themes:
Pattern, Structure, Movement, Growth, The Human Body, Sound 

Medium:
Graphite stick or soft B pencil, Handwriting Pen, Pastels & Chalk, Paper, (Sketchbook Making Task: Paper, string, elastic bands, glue)

Artists: Molly Haslund

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“To paint a line for a minute and walk with it was something I had never done before, and it made me think a lot about how good simple things can be.” Chris Ofili

Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

See the recording of the hour long zoom CPD to introduce teachers to this pathway.

Curriculum Links

Science: Uses language to support understanding of concepts of growth, human body and natural forms.

Maths: Explores pattern, symmetry.

PSHE: Peer discussion, collaboration

I Can…

• I can draw from my finger tips, my wrist, my elbow, my shoulder, my body.

• I can make a drawing using a continuous line for a minute or two.

• I have made a sketchbook (or perhaps decorated the cover of a bought sketchbook) and I feel like it belongs to me.

• I can draw from observation for a few minutes at a time.

• I can make different marks with different drawing tools. I have seen the different marks I can make with a soft pencil, a graphite stick and a handwriting pen.

• I have explored how water affects the graphite and pen, and explored how I can use a brush to make new marks.

• I can make choices about which colours I’d like to use in my drawing.

• I have seen the work of an artist and listened to how the artist made the work. I have been able to share how I feel about the work. 

• I can talk about what I like in my drawings, and what I’d like to try again.

• I can take photos of my artwork.

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

A2 newsprint, A2 cartridge or black paper, sugar paper (torn into squares), soft pencils, graphite sticks, chalk, handwriting pens, or graphite, sticks, coloured card, cardboard, recycled/scrap paper, elastic bands.

Pathway: Spirals

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  This pathway aims to introduce children to the idea that making a drawing is a physical activity which uses the whole body and connects head, hand and heart. 

   

• Week 1: Make drawings using your body
  

  Making Spiral Drawings

  

  Invite children to use their whole body to create large scale “Spiral Drawings“.

  Use soft B pencils or graphite sticks. Work on large A2 sheets of paper (newsprint is fine).

  Invite students to experiment with different materials – graphite sticks, soft B pencils, handwriting pens, chalks.

  • Create large scale drawings.

  • Make spiral drawings to music.

  • Stand up and work in the playground using chalk. 

  • Juxtapose emotions eg.  ‘Create a quiet spiral… then create a LOUD spiral.’ Invite children to tune into how they are feeling and create a spiral that reflects their mood.

• Look & Talk
  

  Molly Haslund: Outdoor Drawings

  

  Explore our free to access “Talking Points: Molly Haslund” to discover an artist who makes drawings outside using her body as a drawing tool. Pause the videos and invite children to create drawings using the “Show Me What You See” method.

  Fast engineering challenge: Respond to Molly Haslund’s work by asking children to make a tool that creates a circle when it has a drawing material attached. Use sticks, card, cardboard, tape, twine, straws etc.

  Juxtapose children’s exploration by looking at the work of women who make kolam in front of their homes every morning in the “Talking Points: The Ancient Art of Kolam” resource.

• Week 2: Develop your drawings
  

  Make Snail Drawings

  

  Create a “Snail Drawing” on a large square of white cartridge paper or black sugar paper, using chalk and oil pastels.

  This exercise explores different qualities of line, colour blending, mark making and makes a wonderful mounting piece. 

• Week 3: Introduce sketchbooks and either make your own sketchbook or personalise a bought sketchbook
  

  Make an Elastic Band Sketchbook

  It’s important that children feel a sense of ownership with their sketchbooks. Invite children to create their own elastic band sketchbooks using recycled paper and card. These sketchbooks will create an ideal platform for exploration and creative risk taking. Ask children to decorate the cover using collage.

• Or personalise a bought sketchbook to nurture ownership
  

  Making Spaces and Places in a Sketchbook

  “Make Spaces and Places in a Sketchbook” to change the way children use their sketchbooks and help to develop sketchbook techniques in future sessions.

  In the next session children will start working in their sketchbooks. 

• Week 4 & 5: Two drawing exercises
  

  Two Exercises to Encourage Close Looking & Experimental Mark-Making

  Working in a sketchbook, invite children to try the following two drawing exercises below.

  Continue with the spiral exploration by applying drawing skills to making observational drawings of shells.

  Where possible work from real shells, making sure each child can clearly see what they are drawing. If you do not have real shells then you can work from “Drawing Source Materials: Shells“.

  Do the exercises alongside the children (to model your own open exploration), or before the lesson so that you understand how it feels.

  By the end of this session children will have completed a number of  line drawings in their sketchbooks. 

• Exercise One
  

  Observational Drawing: Continuous Line

  Start the session by creating a calm meditative environment. Use this exercise to create “Observational Drawings using Continuous Line“. Encourage careful observation and intentional mark making. 

  Depending on how much time you would like to allocate to the warm up, you may want to ask children to experiment with scale, different materials, dominant and non dominant hand. 

• Exercise Two
  

  Experimental Mark-Making with Water Soluble Pens

  Adapt this resource and experiment with “Mark Making with Water Soluble Pens“

  Rather than try the whole resource which was originally written for older children, focus upon enabling the children to see what happens when they add water to observational drawings made using a handwriting pen (check first that the pen you use is water-soluble) or water-soluble graphite. How are the marks changed by the water? 

  As the children may not have experience of the colour wheel yet, strip this activity back to focus on the line, texture, and light and dark areas. 

• Week 6: Celebrate
  

  Share, reflect, discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Invite children to display the work in a clear space, and walk around the work as if they are in a gallery. Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the children of their hardwork.

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document their work, working in pairs or teams.

  You might like to get children to assemble the snail drawings made in Week 2 into a “class” Backwards Sketchbook.

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit”.

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Layer chalk, pastel and pencil to use shapes intuitively

Backwards forwards drawing

Develop understanding and knowledge of subject matter through careful observation

Pathway for Years 5 & 6

Disciplines:
Printing, Collaging, Drawing

Key Concepts:

• That artists can use art as a way to express their opinions, using their skills to speak for sectors of society.

• That artists acting as activists often use print because it allows them to duplicate and distribute their message.

• That a carefully chosen image can be a powerful way to communicate as it is direct and crosses boundaries of language.

• That through art as activism we can come together. 

In this pathway children are introduced to the idea that they can use art as a way of sharing their passions and interests with their peers and community. We start by introducing pupils to artists who are activists, and then we go on to help pupils identify and voice the things they care about as individuals. 

There is then a choice of projects: the class can either make posters or zines, using using collage, print and drawing.

Medium:
Paper, Pen, Paint

Artists: Luba Lukova, Faith Ringgold, Shepard Fairey

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Curriculum Links

History: Look at the messaging from WW2 posters.

Science: Environmental changes, deforestation.

PSHE: Responsibility to the planet, Collaboration, Peer Discussion, Different Religions, Ethnic Identity.

I Can…

• I have seen how artists use their skills to make art which speaks about things which matter, often on behalf of whole communities.

• I have explored how I can find out what I care about, and find ways I might share my ideas with us.

• I have seen how my classmates may have different things they care about, or share things we care about, but they are all valid.

• I can create visuals and text which communicate my message.

• I can use line, shape and colour to make my artwork.

• I can use typography to make my messages stand out. 

• I can combine different techniques such as print, collage and drawing.

• I can reflect and articulate about my own artwork and artwork made by my classmates.

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Soft B pencils, handwriting pens, sharpies.

Option 1: Make a Poster – Wall paper samples, white acrylic paint, PVA glue.
(For the screen printing) – Masking tape, silk screen mesh, printing ink, printing medium, newsprint, cartridge paper or other printable surface, pen/pencil, craft knives (optional), masking tape, cardboard for palette and squeegee, bucket, A4 Acetate sheets and pva glue (optional).

Option 2: The Art of Zines – Large sheet of cartridge paper, collage papers, newspaper, PVA glue.

Pathway: Print & Activism

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  This pathway introduces pupils to the idea that artists can use their skills, vision and creativity to speak on behalf of communities, changing the world for the better. 

• Week 1: Introduction
  

  The Relationship Between Print & Activism

  We begin by introducing pupils to the idea that art can be used to express the opinions of artists, who in turn speak for sectors of society. Artists can be activists, and many artists choose print as a way to make their art, as it allows them to reproduce their artwork so that it can reach many people. 

  Choose one or more of the artists below to introduce to your class, depending on the project option you choose. 

• Introduce an Artist Activist
  

  Luba Lukova

  Use free to access “Talking Points: Luba Lukova“ to explore a designer who uses posters as a way to address injustice in the world. Use the questions at the bottom of the resource to help guide a discussion about the artists approach. 

• Introduce an Artist Activist
  

  Faith Ringgold

  Use free to access “Talking Points: Faith Ringgold” resource to explore an artist who makes painted quilts to communicate personal narratives, history and politics. Use the questions at the bottom of the resource to help guide a discussion about the artists approach.

• Introduce an Artist Activist
  

  Kate DeCiccio

  

  Use the free to access “Talking Points: Kate DeCiccio” to explore how posters can be used to communicate important messages within different communities.

• Find Your Voice…
  

  What Do YOU Care About?

  

  What do you care about? What is your message to the world? Sometimes it can be hard to find the right words, or be brave enough to say them outloud.

  The “Find Your Message” resource will help pupils to find their passion and their message, and enable them to communicate it in their own way. 

  Work in sketchbooks or on large sheets of paper. Work alone or in small groups of people you trust. 

  This activity will encourage children to start exploring who they really are, before they take their next steps to secondary school.

• Week 2,3,4 & 5
  

  Find your focus

  Decide whether you would like to explore pupil voice by making posters or making zines, and follow the pathways below.  

• Option 1
  

  Make a Poster

  This pathway shares how you can make a poster about something you care about. 

• Look and Talk
  

  Shepard Fairey

  

  Introduce discussions about street art and activism in the classroom using free to access “Talking Points: Shepard Fairey“.

• Make
  

  Create a Poster Inspired by Shepard Fairey

  

  Use the “Creating a poster inspired by Shepard Fairey” resource. Children will begin by collaging their own canvas and go on to create their poster design, through stencil, collage or screen print.

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  Screen Print Hack

  

  If you decide that you’d like to revisit screen print with the children or they haven’t had the opportunity to screen print before, here is a video for our “Screen Print Hack” to support this facilitation. 

  Children can also use collage and stencilling as a way to create their posters.

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  Or…

• Option 2:
  

  Make a Zine

  Use the following resources to inspire pupils to make a zine.

• Introduce
  

  Talking Points: What is a Zine?

  

  Use the free to access “Talking Points: What is a Zine?” to explore the purpose of Zines. 

• Be Inspired
  

  The Art of Zines

  See how older pupils made zines about things they cared about in the “Art of Zines” resource.

• Make
  

  Make a Simple Folded Sketchbook

  

  Use the “Simple Folded Sketchbook” resource as basis for your zine.

• Collage
  

  Fill your Zine

  

  Children may want to begin their zines by “starting with magazine imagery“.

  Supply children with a variety of magazine imagery which can be used to communicate their message.

  Invite children to modify their chosen imagery, by cutting, folding, sticking and juxtaposing whilst thinking about the composition of their zine pages. Images can be photocopied in black and white and drawn/painted over.

  Encourage experimentation and exploration of how best to communicate their message through text and word. 

• Week 6
  

  Share, reflect, discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Invite children to display the work in a clear space, and walk around the work as if they are in a gallery. Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the children of their hardwork.

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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Pathway for Years 5 & 6

Disciplines:
Drawing, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Collage, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That drawing and making have a close relationship.

• That drawing can be used to transform a two dimensional surface, which can be manipulated to make a three dimensional object.

• That when we transform two dimensional surfaces we can use line, mark making, value, shape, colour, pattern and composition to help us create our artwork.

• That we can use methods such as the grid method and looking at negative space to help us draw.

• That there is a challenge involved in bringing two dimensions to 3 dimensions which we can solve with a combination of invention and logic. 

This pathway contains two choices: 1) working towards a piece of sculpture, or 2) working towards graphic design/packaging. 

Both options allow children to explore the idea that drawing as a 2 dimensional activity can be used to transform surfaces which can then be manipulated into a 3 dimensional object. 

Along the way, children explore how mark making, line, tonal value, colour, shape, and composition can be used to inform the final piece. 

The sculptural project additional includes two methods to help build drawing skills: looking at negative space and grid drawing. 

The graphic design packaging project includes typography.

Medium:
Card, Paper, Drawing materials.

Artists: Lubaina Himid, Claire Harrup

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

You can see a recording of a session sharing this pathway here. 

Curriculum Links

English: Create characters inspired by literature.

History: Create characters inspired by theme.

Maths: 2D and 3D shapes, measuring, symmetry, angles, plot points.

PSHE: Collaboration, Peer Discussion.

I Can…

• I have explored artists who use their drawing skills to make objects, and I can share my responses to their work, thinking about their intention and outcome.

• I can use my sketchbook to record and reflect, collecting the ideas and approaches I like which I see other artists use. 

• I can use line, mark making, tonal values, colour, shape and composition to make my work interesting. 

• I can use negative space and the grid method to help me see and draw.

• I can explore typography and design lettering which is fit for purpose.

• I can transform my drawing into a three dimensional object.

• I can share my work with others, and talk about my intention and the outcome. I can listen to their response and take their feedback on board.

• I can appreciate the work of my classmates. I can listen to their intentions and share my response to their work.

• I can photograph my three dimensional work, thinking about presentation, lighting, focus and composition. 

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Option 1: Flat/Sculptural Drawings: Corrugated cardboard, silhouette images of dogs, handwriting pens, soft B pencils, collage papers/newspapers/photocopies, PVA glue, tape, scissors.

Option 2 Packaging: Cardboard food packaging, ink, brushes, handwriting pens, sharpies, acrylic paint/poster paint mixed with PVA, coloured paper, coloured crayons, scissors, string, big needles, glue, tape, wire.

Pathway: 2D Drawing to 3D Making

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• The Aim of the Pathway

  This pathway enables pupils to consider how 2 dimensional drawing might relate / transform to 3 dimensional making. 

• Find Your Focus
  

  Sculpture or Graphic Design?

  Before you begin, decide which focus you would prefer:

• Option 1
  

  Sculpture

  

  Sculpture – Explore drawing techniques such as grid drawing, using negative space, and mark making (including tonal value), before transforming your drawings into sculpture.

• Or…

• Option 2
  

  Graphic Design

  

  Graphic Design – Explore typography, line, shape, colour and composition to recreate food packaging, turning the flat graphics into 3d nets.

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  Follow Option 1 or Option 2 for the Full 6 Weeks Below

• Option 1:
  

  Flat Yet Sculptural Sculpture Project

• Option 1: Week 1: Introduce
  

  Introduce the Work of Lubaina Himid

  

  Introduce pupils to the work of Lubaina Himid, an artist working in London, using the free to access “Talking Points: Lubaina Himid” resource.

  Note for teachers on adult content: Please see the advisory on the Talking Points page above.

  Lubaina paints on wood to create flat, standing images which viewers can walk amongst. 

  With sketchbooks open use the “Making Visual Notes” resource so that pupils can note down things that they notice during the exploration. Use the questions on the resource to start discussion. 

• Option 1: Weeks 2 & 3: Draw
  

  Use Negative Space and the Grid Method

  

  Pupils will start to create their own “flat yet sculptural” artwork.

  In the resource we feature, we framed our exploration around dogs – but you can choose any focus you like. 

  Begin by introducing children to two key techniques which will help them both see and draw: 1) using negative space and 2) the grid method. 

  Use the “Use Negative Space to Believe What You See (and Scaling Up)” resource to help pupils understand these methods and begin their project work. 

• Option 1: Weeks 4 & 5: Draw
  

  Explore Mark Making, Tonal Value & Structure

  

  Continue the project by collaging and making the drawings into sculptures. Full instructions via the “Flat Yet Sculptural” resource. 

• Week 6
  

  Share, Reflect, Discuss

  Refer to the bottom of the pathway for help with running a crit.

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  Or…

• Option 2:
  

  Redesigning Food Packaging

• Option 2: Week 1: Introduction
  

  Graphic Designers and Food Packaging

  

  Use the free to access “Talking Points: Food Packaging” resource to explore food packaging. Use the questions on the resource to stimulate conversation.

  You may also like to take in food packaging of favourite foods and invite children to talk about the colours and design of the boxes etc. 

  Use the “Making Visual Notes” resource to give children the opportunity to note down things that they notice during the exploration.

  

  You could also look at “Which Artists: Claire Harrup” to see how an artist working for one of the big supermarkets designs her work. 

• Option 2: Week 2, 3, 4, 5: Draw, Paint, Make
  

  Explore Packaging Design

  

  Use the “Redesigning Food Packaging” resource to design your own food packaging. 

  You might like to start the project by watching the third video on the “Talking Points: Food Packaging” resource if you didn’t watch it last week. The process you will follow is slightly different but it gives a nice insight into how a designer might approach a similar project. 

  You may also like to visit the free to access “Talking Points: What is Typography?” resource if you would like to remind children how they can think creatively about lettering. 

  Throughout the project, use sketchbooks to test ideas and reflections. 

• Week 6 (both options)
  

  Share, Reflect, Discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Invite children to display the work in a clear space and walk around the work as if they are in a gallery. Have sketchbook work present too. Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the children of their hard work.

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document their work, working in pairs or teams. Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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Explore bottle packaging through drawing and construction

Pathway for Years 5 & 6

Disciplines:
Making, Drawing, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That there are many traditions of using intricate cutouts as shadow puppets to narrate archetypal stories.

• That artists and craftspeople adapt the traditions they inherit to make them their own, and to reflect the culture they live in.

• That we can take inspiration from other artists and cultures and make the processes and techniques our own by using materials, tools and narratives which are important to us.

• That we can work in collaboration with others to make a shared experience. 

In this pathway children explore both traditional and contemporary artists and craftspeople using intricate cutouts to create artwork which is meaningful to the culture in which it is created. 

Pupils explore how they can take inspiration from other artists and craftspeople, and adapt ideas to suit their own way of working. Pupils create puppets working in collaboration.

Sketchbooks are used throughout to record, generate ideas, test and reflect. 

Medium:
Paper, Construction Materials 

Artists: Lotte Reiniger, Matisse, Wayang Shadow Puppets, Phillipp Otto Runge, Pippa Dyrlaga, Thomas Witte

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

See the Zoom CPD session exploring making shadow puppets. 

Curriculum Links

English: Use literature to inspire narrative.

History: Create a narrative around area of focus.

Science: Human body, animals, light and shadow.

Music & Drama: Be Inspired, or make a creative response to, existing productions/themes.

PSHE: Responsibility to the planet, Collaboration, Peer Discussion, Different Religions, Ethnic Identity.

I Can…

• I have seen how a variety of artists and craftspeople use their interest in cutouts to generate imagery. I can share my response to their work with my classmates.

• I can use my curiosity to think about how I might adapt techniques and processes to suit me.

• I can use my sketchbook to record, generate ideas, test ideas and reflect.

• I can make a shadow puppet thinking about how the qualities of the materials I use affect the final outcome.

• I can manipulate the materials using tools so that the puppets I make have character and expression.

• I can make my puppets move in simple ways by articulating them.

• I can work with my peers to create a collaborative experience.

• I can share my work, as a team, and share and listen to feedback.

• I can give my feedback to the work of other teams, and appreciate the differences and similarities of their work to ours. 

• I can photograph or film our puppets and performance.

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Soft B pencils, handwriting pens (black/coloured).

For the puppets: Coloured and black card, coloured tissue paper, doilies, fabric, string, wire, feathers, acetate card, paper fasteners/split pins, wooden skewers, PVA glue, tape, large white sheet (or whiteboard).

Pathway: Cut Outs & Shadow Puppets

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  The aim of this pathway is to introduce pupils to the art of paper cutting, and understand how it can be used and adapted to create shadow puppets. 

  Pupils explore shadow puppets from a historical and contemporary perspective before making their own puppets, exploring line, shape, form and character.

• Week 1: Introduce
  

  Discover Artists & Approaches

  Explore the Talking Points below as an introduction to the project.

  Use as few or as many as you would like, depending upon time / area of interest. 

  Have sketchbooks open and make time during the exploration to use sketchbooks to use the “Making Visual Notes” resource. Pupils might make references, collect ideas, jot down methods of working, draw equivalents etc. 

• Introduce
  

  Talking Points: Lotte Reiniger

  

  Explore the work of Lotte Reiniger through the free to access “Talking Points: Lotte Reiniger” resource.

• Introduce
  

  Talking Points: Paper Cut Outs

  

  Explore artists who create artwork using paper cut outs using free to access “Talking Points: Paper Cut Outs“.

• Introduce
  

  Talking Points: Malaysian Shadow Puppets

  

  Find out about the 250 year old tradition of Wayang Kulit and how artists are adapting it to suit our times with our free to access “Talking Points: Malaysian Shadow Puppets“.

• Weeks 2, 3, 4 & 5: Explore & Create
  

  Making Shadow Puppets

  

  Use the following resources to help you explore how to make the puppets, and use the whiteboard as projection screen:

  Shadow Puppets & Whiteboards

  Shipwrecked!

  Shadow Puppets & Performance

  

  Have sketchbooks open and encourage pupils to remember the approaches explored in week 1, and to use the sketchbooks to further make notes, note down ideas, make quick sketches to test ideas/shapes etc.

  

  Depending upon how much time you have, you may want to work towards creating puppets for a performance following a narrative, or you may prefer to make standalone puppets.

  You may want to connect the puppets that you make to links within the curriculum, or even make puppets along the theme of transition or retrospection to celebrate the end of Primary School/moving on to Secondary School.

• Week 6: Present & Share
  

  Share, Reflect, Discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome. 

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document the puppets. You could also film the puppet show. 

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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Pathway for Years 5 & 6

Disciplines:
Design, Making, Drawing, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That artists who create furniture are often called craftspeople or designers. 

• That furniture is more than just practical – designers and craftspeople produce furniture which reflects the era or culture it is made in, or the personality of the maker. 

• That as artists, we can use a variety of materials to design and make our own model chairs. The chairs we make can reflect our personality, and be enjoyed by others. 

• There are certain requirements for a chair to be a chair (4 legs and a back?) – but we can be as imaginative as we like. 

• We can think about the form, structure, material and texture, as well as the way the chair is constructed, to help us make our chair unique. 

In this pathway children are introduced to the work of a craftsperson/designer, and they explore how the artist brings his personality to his work. They go on to explore chair design over the centuries to understand how furniture can reflect or define the age in which it was made.

Children then use a warm up making exercise to remind themselves that they can be inventive in their making, and that the things they make can communicate ideas to other people. Finally children go on to make their own chair (a model of) using the Design Through making technique. 

Medium:
Construction Materials

Artists: Yinka Ilori

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Please find the CPD session recording of the Take a Seat pathway here.

Curriculum Links

Maths: Measuring, 2D and 3D shapes, symmetry, angles.

Science: Forces and gravity.

PSHE: Responsibility to the planet, Collaboration, Peer Discussion.

I Can…

• I have explored the work of a craftsperson / designer and seen how they bring personality to their work.

• I have seen how chair design has changed through the ages.

• I can use my sketchbook to make visual notes to record and reflect.

• I can experiment with how I can make mini sculptures with lots of different materials, guided by a short sentence to help me.

• I can use the Design Through Making technique to make a model of a chair which expresses an aspect of my personality.

• I can see how my sketchbook exploration helped me work towards my final outcome, and I can see what I like and what I would like to do differently. 

• I can present and share my work, and talk about it with my classmates, and listen to their responses to my work.

• I can respond to the work made by my classmates and I can share my thoughts. 

• I can take photographs of my work, thinking about focus, light and composition. 

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Soft B pencils, oil/chalk pastels, handwriting pens. Construction Materials (see list here).

Pathway: Take a Seat

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  This pathway aims to introduce chair design to children. Children will explore what a chair can be and how the design and “personality” of a piece of furniture can make us feel.

• Week 1: Introduce a Craftsperson / Designer
  

  Exploring Chair Design

  

  Explore the work of contemporary artist and designer Yinka Ilori with our free to access “Talking Points: Yinka Ilori” resource. Watch the videos and use the questions to prompt class discussion.

  Have your sketchbooks open and use the “Making Visual Notes” resource to record and reflect. 

• Sketchbook Work
  

  Using Drawing to Build Understanding

  

  Use the free to access “Talking Points: History of Chair Design” resource as basis for some more sketchbook work. 

  Use the “Show Me What You See” technique to help pupil’s visually explore chairs.

  During the exercise, draw attention to the visual elements of the chairs, including talking about materials, form and structure. 

  By the end of the session sketchbooks should be full of pupils interpretations of different elements (shapes, lines etc) from the video.

• Week 2: Be Inventive
  

  Making Prompt Cards

  

  Before you begin, watch “Making is Hard” to remind everyone that making can be tricky! It’s okay if things don’t go to plan. Making is all about experimenting with materials to find out what is possible.

  Use the “Making Prompt Cards” resource to help children gain experiential knowledge. The prompts in the resource will provide inspiration to kick start creative thinking and enable an exploration of material and intention, without worrying about the design or purpose of what you are making. Children will make mini sculptures guided by the prompts on the cards.

• Week 3, 4 and 5
  

  Take a Seat

  Challenge children to become furniture designers with the “Take a Seat” resource, and invite children to create a chair which expresses their personality. 

  Encourage children to make intuitive choices when thinking about which materials to use, which shapes to make, and how they might connect materials together.

  Be inspired by the “Take a Seat Gallery“.

• Week 6: Present and Celebrate
  

  Share, Reflect, Discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Display the work in a clear space, including sketchbook work, and walk around the work as if you were in a gallery. Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the children of their hard work.

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document their work, working in pairs or teams. Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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Making sculptures: the chair and me

Make sculpture inspired by your bodies relationship to the furniture around you

Pathway for Years 5 & 6

Disciplines:
Installation Art, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That as humans we react emotionally to colour.

• That artists can create immersive environments using colour, light, form and sometimes sound to create a transformative experience for others.

• That we can use colour in a brave and inventive way, trying new colour combinations and exploring the relationship between colour and form. 

• That we can test ideas, use our imagination, and share our vision with others by creating 2 and 3 dimensional models. 

In this pathway pupils are enabled to explore colour in a very personal and intuitive way. 

Taking inspiration from artists who use colour, light and form to create immersive installations, pupils are encouraged to create (propose) their own art work. They are enabled to imagine “what if…?” and encouraged to share their vision or imagining with others through mock-up artworks and models. 

Recognising pupils growing ability to articulate their thoughts, and understand that we can use art to bring people together through sharing common experiences, such as how our bodies and minds react in certain colourful environments, pupils are empowered to create their own response to simple sculptural challenges. 

Pupils use sketchbooks throughout to record, test and reflect. 

Medium:
Paper, Card, Paint, Light (coloured filters)

Artists: Olafur Eliasson, Yinka Ilori, Morag Myerscough, Liz West

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Curriculum Links

Science: Light, shadows.

PSHE: Collaboration, Peer Discussion.

I Can…

• I have explored the work of installation artists who use colour, light and form to create immersive environments. I have been able to imagine what it might be like to be in those environments, and to share my thoughts with others.

• I can respond to a creative challenge or stimulus, research the area, and make a creative response.

• I can create a 3d model or 2d artwork which shares my vision with others. 

• I can use a sketchbook to focus my exploration of colour, taking time to record thoughts, test ideas and reflect.

• I can take photos of my artwork, thinking about focus, lighting and composition.

• I can present my ideas and vision to others, articulate my thoughts and listen to the response of my classmates, taking on board their feedback.

• I can listen to the creative ideas of others, and share my feedback about their work. 

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Selection of papers, elastic bands, cardboard, soft pencils, coloured pencils, oil/chalk pastels, water colour paint, inks, acrylic or ready mixed paint, brushes, collage papers, PVA glue, scissors.

Option 1: Mini World Light Boxes- Cardboard boxes, pencils, felt tip pens, sharpies paper/card, junk modelling materials, torches, marbling materials, paper, marbling inks, sticks for mixing, trays, PVA glue, scissors.

Option 2: Sculptural Challenge: Colourful Walls and Option 3: Sculptural Challenge: Light and Form – Construction Materials (see list here).

Pathway: Brave Colour

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  This pathway gives pupils the opportunity to engage with colour in an intuitive and physical way.

  Pupils are given a greater degree of creative independence and the pathway invites pupils to  respond to the following questions:

  “How can we create colourful experiences? How do they make us feel? How might we connect to others through colour?”

  Pupils are encouraged to guide their own exploration, making choices about how they want to use colour in their artwork. 

• Week 1: Prepare
  

  Make a “Brave Colour” Project Sketchbook

  

  Fill the classroom full of colour and start as you mean to go on by inviting children to make a dedicated Brave Colour Project Sketchbook. 

  Use the “Elastic Band Sketchbook” resource to make the sketchbooks. Use white paper inside (use cartridge paper torn into double sized sheets – don’t use printer paper) so that pupils can fill it with the colours that appeal to them. 

  For the covers, use something durable like cardboard as a base, but invite pupils to personalise the covers with colours they are attracted to. This might involve paint, card, paper or fabric.

  Encourage pupils to use these sketchbooks throughout the project. Use the “Making Visual Notes” resource to capture colours, generate ideas and reflect. 

• Week 2: Be Inspired
  

  Explore the Work of Artists Using Colour

  

  As a class, explore the work of artists who use colour in their work – sometimes in the form of paint, sometimes light. 

  Explore the following Talking Point resources, using them as the basis for class discussion. Use the “Making Visual Notes” resource to give pupils time to jot down thoughts and ideas in their sketchbooks. 

  As this is a colour project, make sure pupils have ready access to colour – paper, paint, ink, pastel – so even though this session is about watching and talking, they can also easily reach for colours to apply to their sketchbook notes. 

  Explore one or more of the free to access resources below:

  

  Talking Points: Yinka Iloria and Colourful Spaces

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  Talking Points: Morag Myerscough

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  Talking Point: Carnovsky

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  Talking Point: Olafur Eliasson

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  Installation Artist – Liz West

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  You may also like to explore the “Talking Points: What is Installation Art?” resource. 

• Week 3: Collect Colour
  

  Exciting Colour

  

  Explore pattern designer Rachel Parker’s moodboard books. Invite children to “Collect Colour” from magazines to create their own colour moodboards. These moodbards can be used in the future as inspiration for other projects.

• Weeks 3, 4, & 5: Explore & Create
  

  Dream Big by Working Small

  Choose one of the following options to focus pupils exploration of “brave colour”. 

  Use sketchbooks to record, test and reflect. 

• Option 1
  

  Mini World Light Boxes

  

  Use the “Mini World Light Boxes” resource to create models of sculptural installations exploring light, colour and form.

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  Or…

• Option 2
  

  Sculptural Challenge: Colourful Walls

  

  Use the “Sculptural Challenge Number 1: Colourful Walls” resource and challenge pupils to create a design proposal for a colourful architectural installation exploring colour and form.

• Option 3
  

  Sculptural Challenge: Colour, Light, Form

  

  Use the “Sculptural Challenge Number 2: Colour, Light, Form” resource and ask children to create an idea for an installation which uses light, colour and form (and even maybe sound) to create an immersive experience for others.

• Week 6: Present and Share
  

  Share, Reflect, Discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Invite children to display the work in a clear space, and walk around the work as if you were in a gallery.

  Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the pupils of their hard work. Look back on all stages of the colourful journey and connect work made by pupils to that of the initial artists. 

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document their work, working in pairs or teams. Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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To Colour

A sensory exploration exploring questions ‘What does colour smell like? What does colour feel like?’

Nature Kaleidoscope

Make a colourful kaleidoscope using natural and found materials

Pathway for Years 5 & 6

Disciplines:
Architecture, Drawing, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That architects have a responsibility to design buildings which help make our world a better place, including thinking about the environmental impact of the buildings they design.

• That we can make creative choices which both serves ourselves as individuals and the communities we belong to. 

• That we can use form, structure, materials, and scale to design innovative buildings.

• That we can build architectural models to test out our ideas and share our vision. 

In this pathway children are opened to the idea that artists and designers have responsibilities, in the case of architects to design homes that help us have a brighter future. Children discuss as a class if it is best to design aspirational homes which make us feel good to live in, or tiny homes which benefit the environment. Or perhaps we can do both?

Children explore the work of architects and individual builder/designers, and use sketchbooks and drawing to collect, process and reflect upon ideas.

Children then go on to build an architectural model of their aspirational home or tiny house, before sharing as a class to see the village that has been made. 

Medium:
Foamboard, Ink, Card

Artists: Shoreditch Sketcher, Various Architects

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Curriculum Links

Geography: Opportunity to talk about issues surrounding climate change to inform the type of houses you make, and the materials you use.

History: Changes in Britain – How architecture has changed from your chosen civilisation topic. Design a bomb shelter inspired by WW2?

Maths: Measuring, 2D and 3D shapes, symmetry, angles.

PSHE: Responsibility to the planet, Collaboration, Peer Discussion.

I Can…

• I have explored domestic architecture which is aspirational and large, and I have explored the Tiny House movement. I can discuss with the class how both these ways of designing might affect our lives.

• I can use my sketchbook to collect, record and reflect my ideas and thoughts. 

• I can make larger drawings working from still imagery, using various drawing techniques for fifteen or so minutes. 

• I can explore how line, form, structure, material, and scale are all used to make architecture interesting, and help the designer meet the design brief. 

• I can make an architectural model using the ‘design through making’ technique, using my sketchbook to help free my imagination.

• I can present my work, reflect and share it with my classmates.

• I can respond to the work of my classmates, sharing my thoughts about their work in relation to the architecture we looked at during the project. 

• I can photograph my work considering lighting, focus and composition.

• I can make short films of my work giving a close-up tour of my architectural model.

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Soft B pencils, handwriting pens, sharpies, A2 cartridge or sugar paper. Construction Materials (see list here)

Pathway: Architecture – Dream Big & Small

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• The Aim of the Pathway

  The aim of this pathway is to give pupils the opportunity to use their growing creative independence to discuss, decide, and design. Pupils will explore the responsibilities architects have to create a better world for us all by exploring whether we should “dream big or dream small” when it comes to planning for homes for the future. 

• Week 1: Introduce
  

  Dream Big or Small?

  

  Introduce pupils to the point for discussion and design:

  “As architects, should we aspire to fill the world full of amazing beautiful buildings, or do we serve ourselves and the planet better by designing small, modest, cleverly designed eco homes. Or can we do both?”

  Use the free to access “Drawing Source Material: Amazing Architectural Homes” resource to see aspirational architectural design.

  Use the “Making Visual Notes” resource to get children to note down forms, structures and materials that they like.

  

  Then use the free to access “Talking Points: Tiny Houses” resource. Again, use sketchbooks to make visual notes of the details, structures, materials, and ideas which appeal to the children.

  Have a class discussion, and perhaps even a vote, about what they feel is important in terms of house design to make the world a better place.

• Week 2: Draw
  

  Drawing Houses

  This week, children will work on larger sheets of cartridge or sugar paper (A3 or larger) and revisit the two resources used last week (“Drawing Source Material: Amazing Architectural Homes” and “Talking Points: Tiny Houses“). This time pupils will make drawings of paused moments in the video (so they are working from a still image).

  The aim here is not to design a building (they are not designing on paper) but instead to deepen understanding of the form and structures architects might use. Children will use drawing to help look more closely: to collect ideas for when they ‘design through making’. 

  Try to create between 3 and 5 drawings, each on a fresh sheet, during the session. Pupils will work in handwriting pen and, if they wish, coloured pen to highlight/accent certain features.

  They might like to be inspired by the drawings by the Shoreditch Sketcher. You can see his work at “Talking Points: Shoreditch Sketcher“.

  You might also like to use the following drawing exercises to inspire their drawings (using handwriting pen):

  Continuous Line Drawing

  Drawing with a Ruler

  If there is a sense of perspective in the image pupils are drawing, invite them to try to capture it on the page. Sometimes, if they are drawing from a still image on a whiteboard, they can use a metre rule or a cane to help see where the lines of perspective are. 

  Rather than try to draw the whole image, invite them to record what they consider to be the most important elements of the architectural design. 

• Week 3, 4, 5
  

  Make your Architectural Model

  

  Start Week 3 with a recap about the architectural dilemma: dream big or small?

  Decide as a class if the children are all going to make models of aspirational homes, or tiny houses, or a mixture of both. 

  Have sketchbooks open so that pupils can use them as reference material, and have access to the drawings made the week before. Use the “Ink and Foamboard Architecture” resource to help pupils build their architectural models.

  Tips:

  Remember they are not designing on paper first. Instead pupils are using sketchbooks as reference and using the “Design Through Making” technique.

  Remind pupils (if they get frustrated!) that Making is Hard!– but that’s ok! 

  Allow pupils plenty of time to cut and stick their shapes. You may want to get a head start by having a member of staff cut a selection of shapes beforehand so that pupils can use them as “building blocks” and then cut their own as they need them. See how to cut foamboard here Coming Soon.

  Buying foamboard (coming soon)

• Week 6
  

  Share, Reflect, Discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Pupils will display the work in a clear space, and walk around the work as if they were in a gallery.

  Remember to display sketchbook work too, so that they remember the whole journey and give context to the outcomes.

  Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the children of their hard work.

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document their work, working in pairs or teams. You could also make films by bringing the cameras really close to the models, to see different perspectives and interiors. Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

   

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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Pathway for Years 5 & 6

Disciplines:
Set Design, Making, Drawing, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That designers and makers design “sets” which form the backdrop/props to give context to drama (theatre, film or animation). 

• That we can use many disciplines including painting, making, drawing to create sets, as well as thinking about lighting, scale, perspective, composition, and sound. 

• That we can create our own “sets” to create models for theatre design, or backgrounds for an animation.

• That we can take our inspiration from the sources of literature or music to inform our creative response and to capture the essence of the drama. 

In this pathway pupils explore the work of set designers – in the first instance a set designer that works in theatre, and in the second instance a maker that creates sets for animation. 

Pupils go on to explore how they can create their own model set, inspired by a creative stimulus (poetry, prose, film or music). 

Sketchbooks are used throughout to brainstorm, record, test and reflect. 

Medium:
Paper, Card, Construction Media, Mixed Media, Paint, Drawing Materials

Artists: Rae Smith, Fausto Melotti, Tiny Inventions, Rose Hurley, Gabby Savage-Dickson

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Curriculum Links

English: Create set designs inspired by your chosen play or book (for example Esio Trot).

History: Create a ‘scene’ inspired by your chosen civilisation topic e.g. a Roman amphitheatre.

Science: Light, shadow.

Music & Drama: Link to projects in Music and Drama.

PSHE: Collaboration, Peer Discussion.

I Can…

• I have explored how other artists use their skills to build sets for theatre or animation, inspired by literature, film, poetry or music. I can articulate and share my response to their work.

• I can respond to a suggested stimulus (poetry, prose, music or short film) and design and build a model set which conveys my interpretation of the mood/narrative of the original stimulus. 

• I can use my sketchbook to brainstorm ideas, jot down thoughts, test materials, record and reflect.

• I can share my process and outcome with my classmates, articulating my ideas and methods. I can listen to their feedback and take it on board.

• I can appreciate the artwork made by my classmates and share my response to their work.

• I can take photographs or film of my artwork thinking about presentation, lighting, focus and composition. 

• I can use my animation set as backdrop to an animation.

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Soft B pencils, A2 cartridge paper, charcoal, cardboard boxes, selection of small toys, construction materials.

Pathway: Set Design

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aims of the Pathway

  This pathway aims to introduce pupils to set design, either for theatre or animation. Pupils explore the work of designers/makers and then create their own model “sets” around a theme. 

• Find Your Focus
  

  Choose Theatre Design or Design for Animation

  Decide if you would like your pupils to explore Set Design for Theatre, or Set Design for Animation, and follow the stages below accordingly.

• Set Design for Theatre

  In this option pupils explore how designers design sets for theatre.

• Week 1: Introduce
  

  Set Design for Theatre

  Use the “Talking Points: Set Designer Rae Smith” resource to introduce pupils to the work of a set designer working in theatre.

  Pause the video at suitable points to open up conversation. Invite children to make a page or two using “Making Visual Notes” in their sketchbooks. They might make quick drawings of the sculptures, note down how they feel and also include any other thoughts that the videos prompt.

• Week 2, 3, 4 & 5: Create
  

  Set Design for Theatre

  

  Use the “Set Design With Primary Aged Children” resource to focus a project around how pupils can create their own model sets in response to a dramatic stimulus.

  Children will have the opportunity to draw, build and paint and by the end they will have an atmospheric and dramatic set in response to text. Use sketchbooks throughout to come up with ideas, jot down thoughts, test materials and reflect.

  You may also like to introduce the work of Melotti through the “Talking Points: Fausto Melotti” resource if children need further stimulation mid project.

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• Set Design for Animation

  In this option pupils explore how animators build sets for their animations. 

• Week 1: Introduce
  

  Set Design for Animation

  

  Use the “Talking Points: Negative Space by Tiny Inventions” resource to see how animators created the set for their animation Negative Space. 

  Pause the video at suitable points to open up conversation. Invite children to make a page or two in their sketchbooks using “Making Visual Notes“. They might make quick drawings of the set, note down how they feel and also include any other thoughts that the videos prompt.

• Weeks 2, 3, 4 & 5: Introduce
  

  A Textiles Set

  

  Take further inspiration from artist Gabby Savage-Dickson and explore the “Gabby Savage-Dickson: Felting & Embroidering Sets” resource. 

• Create
  

  Rosie Hurley

  

  Explore the “Rosie Hurley: Esio Trot” resource – an artist who created a set based on the film Esio Trot. Explore all of the developmental stages in her sketchbook and see how it connects to the work that has been done in class.

  Again, ask children to have sketchbooks open and jot down any “tips” about the ways Rosie works in her sketchbooks which might be useful. 

  

  Use the “Animation Set Design Challenge” resource to inspire children to create their own set based upon a piece of music, prose, film or poetry. Follow a similar process as Rosie Hurley to create your set. 

• Extension
  

  Animate!

  Coming Soon

• Week 6: Reflect and Discuss
  

  Present, Talk, Celebrate

  

  End the pathway by taking time to appreciate the developmental stages and the final outcomes in a clear space.

  Depending upon the project option chosen, display the work appropriately including having open sketchbooks. Use the “Crit in the Classroom” resource to help you. 

  Encourage children to reflect upon all stages of the journey, and reference the artists studied. 

  If available, children can use tablets or cameras to take photographs of the work. Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

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Pathway for Years 3 & 4

Disciplines:
Painting, Drawing, Collage, Sketchbooks, Relief

Key Concepts:

• That when artists make work in response to static objects around them it is called still life.

• That still life has been a genre for many hundreds of years, and is it still relevant today.

• That when artists work with still life, they bring their own comments and meaning to the objects they portray.

• That we can make a still life creative response in many media: drawing, painting, collage, relief…

• That we can use line, shape, colour, texture, and form to help us give meaning to our work, and explore composition, foreground, background, and negative space. 

In this pathway children are introduced to the genre of still life as an old art form and also one which is still enjoyed by many contemporary artists. Pupils revisit and develop their drawing (and looking) skills using observational drawing of physical objects, and then go on to explore a project, either working in collage, photography and paint, clay relief, or graphic still life. 

Along the way children consolidate and develop their understanding of how we can use line, shape, colour, texture, form and composition to make their work. 

Medium:
Acrylic or poster paint, pen, pencil, ink, clay (depending upon project chosen)

Artists: Paul Cezanne, Peter Claesz, Melchior d’ Hondecoeter, Jan Davidsz, Jacob Vosmaer, Hilary Pecis,  Nicole Dyer, Baas Meeuws, Hirasho Sato

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

Please find the CPD session recording of the Exploring Still Life pathway here.

Curriculum Links

History: Depict objects related to your chosen ancient civilisation topic or even arrange for a museum handling collection to visit your school.

Maths: 2D and 3D shapes, Pattern (on object).

Science: Plants, trees and flowers, rocks and fossils, light and shadow (explore all of these through your still life arrangement).

I Can…

• I have explored the work of contemporary and more traditional artists who work within the still life genre.

• I have felt able to express my thoughts about other artists’ work, and talk about the meanings of objects as artists present them.

• I can use my sketchbook to make visual notes, record and reflect. 

• I can draw from observation and think about how I can use line, colour, shape, texture, form and composition to make my artwork interesting.

• I can present and share my artwork, and explain how my sketchbook work helped build my knowledge and skills towards my final piece.

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Soft B pencils, cartridge paper, sharpies or felt tip pens, handwriting ink or watercolour (undiluted or thick & diluted down to a wash), a fine brush and a thick brush, a small, solid object to draw.

Option 1: Cut Paper Collage Still Life – (to make the collage papers) A2 cartridge paper, A3 coloured sugar paper, sponges, brushes, bubble wrap scraps, acrylic or ready mixed paint (to make the collage), a still life arrangement, PVA glue, scissors.

Option 2: Cezanne Paintings to reference (digitally and printed), a still life arrangement (textured cloths/tea towels, colourful fruits, large bowls, glass vase or bottle, tea pot etc), large pieces of card in various colours for background, iPads/tablets/digital camera/iPhone for photographing.

Option 3: Clay Fruit Tiles – Selection of fruit and vegetables, drawing materials: charcoal, graphite, pencil, chalks, pastels, paper, card, tissue paper, scissors, cardboard, camera, photocopier or tracing paper, clay, clay tools, rolling pins, clay knives, boards, plastic bags, sponges, water pots, brushes, toothbrush and water (for joining clay onto your tile), acrylic paint.

Option 4: Graphic Inky Still Life – Inks, foamboard or cardboard, quills/brushes/pens, craft knife and cutting mat, PVA glue, variety of bottles to draw.

Pathway: Exploring Still Life

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aim of the Pathway

  The aim of this pathway is to introduce children to the genre of still life, explore traditional and contemporary still life artists, and make their own creative response.

  In doing so, they consolidate and develop many technical and visual literacy skills and concepts, including looking at line, colour, shape, texture, form, composition, foreground, background and negative space.

• Week 1: Introduce an artist
  

  Introduce the artist Paul Cezanne

  

  Use the free to access “Talking Points: Cezanne” resource to introduce pupils to the still lifes of Paul Cezanne. 

  Invite children to capture elements of his paintings in their sketchbooks as you discuss his work (focusing particularly on colours, lines and shapes). 

  You might like to use the “Show Me What Your See” or “Making Visual Notes” resources to help children embed exploration in their  sketchbooks.

  You might also like to visit the “What is Composition?” resource to help pupils think about about composition in still life artwork. 

• Work in sketchbooks
  

  Choose One of the Drawing Exercises Below

  

  Use the “See Three Shapes” exercise to help children appreciate how seeing simple shapes can help improve drawing skills, and how one material can be used in a variety of ways to create different qualities of line.

  

  Use the “Four Colour Gestural Drawing Exercise” resource to help children build their understanding of the subject matter, and think about how they can use marks to share their understanding. 

• Week 2: Explore Further
  

  Explore the Work of Contemporary and Traditional Still Life Artists

  

  Explore a variety of contemporary artists who study still life in different forms. Use our free to access “Talking Points: Contemporary Still Life” to prompt class discussion about the artists work.

  Compare and contrast with the work of Dutch and Flemish 16th century artists using the free to access “Talking Points: Flemish Painters” resource.

  Use the “Making Visual Notes” resource to record and reflect.

• Weeks 3, 4 & 5: Find Your Focus
  

  Choose a Project

  Choose between an exploration of:

  • Painting and collage

  • Photography,  composition and painting

  • Clay, texture and painting

  • Still life sculpture

• Option 1: Paint and Collage
  

  Cut Paper Collage Still Life

  

  Use the “Cut Paper Collage Still Life” resource to facilitate a collaged still life activity. This technique is very accessible – pupils paint sheets of paper before collaging with them. 

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• Option 2: Photography, Composition and Painting
  

  Still Life Inspired by Cezanne

  

  Use the “Still Life Inspired by Cezanne” resource to invite pupils to make their own still life compositions, before photographing and painting them. This option is a great way to bring cameras into the classroom. 

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• Option 3: Clay, Texture, Paint
  

  Clay Fruit Tiles

  Give children the opportunity to work with clay to make decorative “Clay Fruit Tiles“.

  Children will gain skills in working with clay as a resistant and responsive material, resulting in an exploration of texture, mark making, colour and composition.

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  Or…

• Option 4: Still Life Sculpture
  

  Graphic Inky Still Life

  

  Explore still life through drawing and construction. “Graphic Inky Still Life” gives children the opportunity to develop their observation and mark making skills to create charming and powerful 3d graphic images.

  Scaffold with sketchbook exercises such as “Continuous Line Drawing” and “Thoughtful Mark Making” to extend the project.

  Tip: This project was originally shared with slightly older children. It’s perfectly suited to this age group – just replace the knife-cutting of the foamboard shapes of the bottles with scissor cutting working on cardboard instead. 

• Intervention
  

  Learning to see

  

  If you feel pupils need help learning to see, use the exercises on the “Painting on Plaster” activity, which includes drawing exercises to explore composition, setting up an individual still life to encourage close looking, and using a viewfinder to help you see. Don’t progress to painting on plaster, unless you are interested in painting on plasterboard (link coming soon).

• Week 6: Present and Celebrate
  

  Share, Reflect, Discuss

  

  Time to see the work which has been made, talk about intention and outcome.

  Invite children to display the work in a clear space, and walk around the work as if they are in a gallery. Give the work the respect it deserves. Remind the children of their hardwork.

  If you have class cameras or tablets, invite the children to document their work, working in pairs or teams. 

  Use the resource here to help you run a class “crit” to finish the project. 

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Pathway for Years 3 & 4

Disciplines:
Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Collage, Sketchbooks

Key Concepts:

• That we can respond to a creative stimulus through lots of different media (paper, pen, paint, modelling materials and fabric) to work towards drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture. 

• That we can use our knowledge and curiosity of line, shape, colour and form to make playful and inventive art. 

• That we can make an individual artwork which contributes to a larger shared piece, or we can work on a shared artwork.

• That making art can be fun and joyful, and that we can find subject matter which inspires us all and brings us together.

In this pathway children are enabled to begin to recognise that their individual creative response will be different to that of their peers, but that it is valued and can contribute to a larger shared artwork. 

As children progress through the school, they are enabled to use and further develop the knowledge and skills learnt so far, and bring their personal likes, dislikes and experience to a project, working towards being confident creative decision makers. 

The pathway begins with an exploration of artists who make sculptures of food, working at unexpected scales, working in a sketchbook to make visual notes to consolidate their experience. 

Children then further develop drawing skills by drawing from still imagery and from life, and then teachers choose from two projects, one using dry materials (paper, card, pen, paint) to make a “corner shop”, or using modroc and other modelling and construction materials to make a shared sculptural feast.

Finally, if you have time, invite pupils to make a shared picnic drawing, before making time to present the work, reflect and share. 

Medium:
Paper/Card, Drawing Materials, Modelling Materials (incl. Modroc)

Artists: Claes Oldenberg, Lucia Hierro, Nicole Dyer

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Teaching Notes

Find the MTP for this pathway here.

See the recording of the Zoom CPD session Exploring Modroc.

Curriculum Links

History: Look at the food grown during the time of your chosen civilisation topic e.g. Iron Age farming.

Science: Soil, room to grow, nutrition, food groups, environmental changes.

PSHE: Supports Responsibility to the planet, Collaboration, Peer Discussion. Look at foods from different religious ceremonies.

I Can…

• I have explored the work of artists who are inspired by food and I can share my responses with the class.

• I can use my sketchbook to record and reflect how the artist’s work makes me feel.

• I can use my sketchbook to draw food using a variety of media, drawing from still images and from life, exploring how I can use line, shape, and colour to capture the texture and form of the food.

• I can make a sculpture of food, understanding that by working in 3d my sculpture will be seen from different viewpoints. 

• I can explore and experiment using “Design through Making”, and I can discover how I can transform and construct with different materials to make my sculpture. 

• I have seen how my own sculpture can form part of a larger artwork, and how we can all find inspiration in each others’ ideas.

• I can explore drawing on different surfaces such as fabric, understanding how the drawing materials act differently to when they are used on paper.

• I can present my work as part of a larger artwork, and I can share my response to my own work and also to the work of my peers. 

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience. Follow the stages in green for a shorter pathway or less complex journey.

Materials

Soft B pencils, coloured pencils, oil/chalk pastels, water colour, graphite sticks, still life arrangement of food

Option 1: Paint Your Corner Shop – Acrylic or poster paint, pencils, handwriting pens, cartridge paper, sellotape, PVA glue, scissors.

Option 2: Feast from Modroc Construction Materials (see list here )

Pathway: Festival Feasts

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

• Aim of the Pathway

  The aim of the pathway is to give children the opportunity to consolidate and further develop a variety of skills (drawing, painting, making) in a celebration of the ways food connects us, as families, cultures, and communities.

• Week 1 & 2: Be Inspired
  

  Explore & Draw

  For the first two weeks, pupils will spend time looking at the artists below and making drawings in sketchbooks. 

• Introduce
  

  Claes Oldenburg

  

  Explore the sculptures of Claes Olderburg with our free to access “Talking Points: Claes Oldenburg” resource.

  Whilst watching the videos, ask children to fill a couple of sketchbook pages using “Making Visual Notes“. They may draw quick drawings of the sculptures, note down how the sculptures make them feel and also include any other thoughts that the videos prompt.

• Introduce
  

  Lucia Hierro

  

  Explore the free to access “Talking Points: Lucia Hierro” to find out more about an artist who creates soft sculptures and installations related to corner shops.

  Children will fill one or two sketchbook pages using the “Making Visual Notes” resource, and consider the similarities and differences between Claes and Lucia. 

• Introduce
  

  Rowan Briggs Smith

  

  Explore “Making Mini Food” to see how a young artist made a collection of tiny plates of food.

   

• Work in Sketchbooks
  

  Show Me What You See

  

  See the free to access “Drawing Source Material: Food” resource.

  Children will work in sketchbooks, using the “Show Me What You See” technique to help them visually explore food.

  During the exercise, draw the children’s attention to the visual elements of their drawings, including talking about shape, colour, texture and composition. Try to capture all these qualities using different materials (and combinations of materials) such as pen, ink, pastel, oil pastel, watercolour and pencil.

  By the end of the session sketchbooks should be full of pupil’s interpretations of different elements (shapes, lines etc) from the video.

  

  Invite children to bring in food, or make a visit to a bakery and invite children to draw directly from life. How is it different to drawing from photographs? Use any of the drawing exercises on this page to inspire your drawings. 

• Week 3, 4: Find your Focus
  

  Explore Painting or Sculpture

  Invite children to explore their favourite foods through either of these community focused paint or sculpture activities. 

• Option 1
  

  Paint Your Corner Shop

  

  Explore painting and sculpture with the “Paint Your Corner Shop” resource. This activity encourages children to think about foods that they like or have other connections to. Children will paint jars / tins of food in 3 different ways. The paintings can be turned into 3D sculptures to form a classroom shop installation.

  Start the session with a “Continuous Line Drawing” warm up. 

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• Option 2
  

  Feast from Modroc

  

  Give children the opportunity to work with new materials and make a “Feast from Modroc“. Making a sculptural feast allows each child to make their own sculpture which will contribute to a lavish class meal. Using modroc and other materials gives pupils the opportunity to explore texture and modelling as well as colour and form.

  Start week 3 by exploring the work of sculptor and artist Nicole Dyer whose work you can find on the free to access “Talking Points: Nicole Dyer” resource.

  You can find detailed information on using Mod Roc in the classroom here. 

• Week 5: Collaborate
  

  Communal Picnic Drawing

  

  Finish off the summer term with this fun “Communal Picnic” activity.

  Start by laying out the picnic – bring food which contributes colour, texture, pattern and form to inspire – and allow lots of space between the food objects to allow the children to work directly on to the cloth. If you are working with a whole class rather than just a few children then you may prefer to try this activity in the hall or even outside, working on more than one sheet.

  This activity gives children the chance to work on a new surface (use old sheets from charity shops) and see how using the materials is different to using them on paper. 

• Week 6: Share and discuss
  

  Share, Reflect, Celebrate

  

  End the pathway by taking time to appreciate the developmental stages and the final outcomes in a clear space.

  Depending upon the project option chosen, display the work appropriately including having open sketchbooks. Use the “Crit in the Classroom” resource to help you. 

  Encourage children to reflect upon all stages of the journey, and reference the artists studied. 

  If available, children can use tablets or cameras to take photographs of the work.

  Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

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This is featured in the ‘Mixed Media Land and City Scapes’ pathway

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Drawing source material: nests