The Arty Teacher

This unit of work has been designed as a 'no sharing art materials' unit. Students can complete the tasks in the classroom or at home or a mixture of both. You need to give students a sketchbook or paper and a sheet of tracing paper.  Students need to have their...

Writing about art is a lesson that helps develop student's ability to write using subject-specific language and descriptively.  Students write down their own key words, adjectives from a list and then write a paragraph about an artwork.  The lesson plans includes detailed instructions so that the teacher can model this...

This one-page resource asks your students to find three artists for different categories.  It's a great way to get your students looking at more art and thinking about the different sort of art that's out there. You can use this resource as a home learning task or in school as...

  'Drawing Eyes Home Learning' is a four-page resource that asks your students to photograph their eyes and then draw from their photographs.  Clear instructions and excellent visual examples give your students the support they need to work independently making it ideal for home learning.  An assessment rubric is also...

This art extension task of 8 mini grid drawings of All-Star Converse, is ideal to have ready for those students who finish before others and need to be kept meaningfully busy.  Two pages with 4 on a page.  Print these on good quality drawing paper and then cut into four. ...

This is a drawing challenge for your students!  The knot challenge asks your students to draw the knot.  You could use this to teach drawing or use is as a sub/cover lesson. It includes the worksheet pictured above and a two-page lesson plan.  The lesson plan includes a script for...

This 'Photographing & Drawing Close-Ups' download asks your students to take photographs which are close-ups, draw a grid and then draw their photos in the grid.  Allowing one lesson to photograph, one lesson to draw the grid and one lesson for each drawing, this should fill 11 lessons.  This download...

Two beautiful pages of roses to draw or paint, inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe  The writing on the worksheet is about O'Keeffe so you can use these as you see fit.  Why not: Work in coloured pencils Work in watercolour Print in black and white and work in pencil. So many...

This is a fantastic lesson if you want your students to be really creative when they make a Father's Day zentangle card.  This resource includes the three pages pictured above: A good example worksheet with lots of zentangle patterns. A blank Father's Day card. A blank 'Love' card for those...

[embed]https://youtu.be/IzYCx-tDYug[/embed] Picasso Paper Cut-Outs, as the video above has shown, helps your students create wonderful Picasso inspired paper sculptures.  This download includes the following: 4 Picasso inspired templates to cut out (pictured above). A lesson plan Good examples with collage Good examples without collage. It's a wonderful way to introduce the...