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 7-slide tour of art-making and three real, famous artists whose work and techniques are commonly studied in KS1: Vincent van Gogh (sunflowers and swirly skies), Sonia Boyce (collage and mixed media, a British Royal Academy artist), and Wassily Kandinsky (colourful circles and shapes).
The pack does NOT reproduce the artists’ actual artworks — children are encouraged to look them up with a grown-up (in books or on age-appropriate art-museum websites) and then make their OWN art inspired by the techniques. This is how primary art is taught everywhere and keeps the pack copyright-safe.
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.
