A planning companion for KS1 Art & Design. Maps the pack to all four NC requirements, gives a broader suggested artist roster (with notes on diversity, age-appropriateness, and copyright when reproducing in the classroom), and offers a 6-lesson scheme using the pack’s resources.
Particularly useful is the section on the “no I can’t draw” rule and how to model risk-taking in your own classroom artwork, plus copyright guidance for displaying contemporary art in class.
A three-page introduction to the three art-making techniques named in the KS1 NC: drawing, painting and sculpture. Each page is a structured try-it-yourself project the child can do at home or in class.
Page 1 builds drawing vocabulary (thick, thin, curly, zigzag lines) through a “draw five different lines” exercise. Page 2 introduces colour mixing — the three primary colours making three secondary colours. Page 3 is a hands-on sculpture challenge using only kitchen items (foil, pasta, paper). The worksheet is the START of the activity, not the activity itself.
A sorting game testing whether the child can match an example to the right art-vocabulary word. NC requirement Ar1/1.3 lists seven art-language terms (colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form, space) and this game drills five of them through fast-paced pictorial recognition.
Designed as a short, replayable warm-up before an art lesson.
A ten-question quiz testing the art language of NC requirement Ar1/1.3 plus knowledge of the three named artists (Van Gogh, Sonia Boyce, Kandinsky) from requirement Ar1/1.4.
Best taken after the e-learning lesson and worksheet. Half the questions test vocabulary; half test artist knowledge — including child-friendly trivia like “who painted the sunflowers?”
The vocabulary children need to discuss art at KS1 (all seven NC-named terms from Ar1/1.3) plus brief introductions to four real artists and one craft tradition.
Use as a five-minute lesson starter. Each artist card includes a child-friendly fact and the technique they’re known for, so children can connect a name to a making approach.
My First Sketchbook is a five-page Years 1–2 art activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for Art & Design. Children explore line and mark-making, mix primary colours to create new ones, turn flat shapes into solid sculptural forms, build a textured sculpture from playdough or junk modelling, and evaluate their own finished work like a real artist. A handful of quick art-vocabulary questions are auto-marked on screen; the rest of the book is hands-on, creative and printable, with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
