Australian Aboriginal Art

#TheCompleteSeries6lessons

Download this complete Australian Aboriginal Art KS1 Art lesson planning pack - it has everything you need to teach these fun lessons, including detailed lesson plans, presentations, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable worksheets and resources. You'll have your Year 1 or Year 2 class excited about Indigenous Australian Art in no time!

#Lesson1CrossHatching

The first lesson in this Australian Aboriginal Art planning pack introduces your class to the Indigenous Australian art technique of cross-hatching. They will examine some Indigenous Australian paintings before listening to a Dreamtime story. Your KS1 class will then use this story as the inspiration for their own artwork, incorporating Indigenous Australian cross-hatching.

This lesson comes fully planned and ready to teach with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources that support children as they create their Indigenous Australian cross-hatching art.

#Lesson2Symbols

During this lesson, your KS1 children will be introduced to some of the Indigenous Australian art symbols used in Australian Aboriginal art, and their meanings. Your class will then listen to a Dreamtime story and use symbols shown on the included slideshow presentation to record it. They can then create their own Australian Aboriginal symbol art using the story as inspiration.

This fun and engaging lesson provides everything you need to get your class enthusiastic about Indigenous Australian art symbols and creating impressive artwork of their own, including a lesson plan, slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your children as they create their artwork.

#Lesson3XRayArt

Download this ready-to-teach Indigenous Australian X-Ray Art lesson to introduce your class to the x-ray, or naturalistic, style of Australian Aboriginal art. The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input shows some examples of Indigenous Australian x-ray art before going through a Dreamtime story together.

During their independent learning activities, your children can then use this story as the inspiration behind their own fish paintings using the Indigenous Australian x-ray style of painting.

#Lesson4AboriginalDotArt

This Indigenous Australian Dot Art lesson will introduce your class to the colourful and creative world of Australian Aboriginal dot art! The lesson starts off by recapping the techniques they have used so far to create their own Indigenous Australian artwork. Your KS1 class will then go on to examine Australian Aboriginal dot paintings before creating a dot painting of their own inspired by a Dreamtime story.

This Australian Aboriginal Dot Art lesson comes fully prepared and ready to teach with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your class as they create their own Indigenous Australian dot art.

#Lesson5Boomerangs

Now that your KS1 class have a good understanding of what Indigenous Australian art is, they can use what they have found out to make boomerangs! This Australian Aboriginal Art Boomerangs lesson takes a look at what boomerangs are, what they are used for and how Indigenous Australian decorate boomerangs. Your class can then use the techniques they have learnt in previous lesson to decorate their own boomerangs. There is also the option to make their own model boomerangs out of clay.

This Australian Aboriginal Art Boomerangs lesson is all planned and prepared for you – all you need to do is download, teach and enjoy watching as your class undertake their boomerang art projects!

#Lesson6MakeaRainstick

In the final lesson of this Australian Aboriginal Art series, your class will make a rainstick to showcase what they have learnt about Indigenous Australian art! The included slideshow presentation goes through some helpful step-by-step pictures and instructions for how to make a rainstick to get them started.

During their independent learning, your KS1 can then follow these steps to make their own rainsticks, using what they have learnt about Indigenous Australian art techniques to decorate their rainsticks in the style of their choice.

Like all lessons in this pack, this Australian Aboriginal Art lesson comes fully planned and ready to deliver, saving you heaps of planning time and helping you deliver a fantastic Art lesson to your KS1 class

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• KS1 - to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• KS1 - to use drawing to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• KS1 - to use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• KS1 - to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
• KS1 - about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.