Colour Creations

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

This Colour Creations KS1 Art planning pack contains five easy-to-follow lesson plans, each with a corresponding slideshow presentation to lead you and your class through the teaching input. A range of differentiated activities are provided, as well as printable resources for their independent learning, including worksheets, instruction sheets, picture cards and much more. Your Year 1 or Year 2 class will soon be creating amazingly colourful works of art they can be proud of!

#Lesson1FavouriteColours

The first lesson in this Favourite Colours KS1 Art lesson encourages your class to look at the colours that are around them. They will discuss how colours are used in everyday life. Your class will then think about what their favourite colour is and find objects associated with that colour

This downloadable lesson contains a detailed lesson plan, engaging slides and printable teaching resources.

#Lesson2PrimaryColours

This Primary Colours KS1 Art lesson teaches your class what the three primary colours are before introducing them to Piet Mondrian and his abstract art. They will look at how Mondrian used primary colours and then use his artwork as the inspiration for their own primary colour masterpieces using either paints or collage.

This downloadable lesson contains a detailed lesson plan, an engaging slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

#Lesson3MixingColours

This technical Mixing Colours KS1 lesson teaches your class how to mix primary colours to create secondary colours. They will have plenty of opportunity to practise creating green, purple and orange and can even create some complimentary flowers!

This downloadable ready-to-teach lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

#Lesson4LightandDark

Now that your children can mix primary colours to create secondary colours, they can find out how to make different shades of colour. This lesson teaches them how to use white and black paint to create lighter or darker shades of a colour and then looks at examples of how different shades of just one colour can be used to create some fantastic artwork.

Now that your children can mix primary colours to create secondary colours, they can find out how to make different shades of colour. This lesson teaches them how to use white and black paint to create lighter or darker shades of a colour and then looks at examples of how different shades of just one colour can be used to create some fantastic artwork.

#Lesson5KandinskyCircles

This Kandinsky Circles KS1 Art lesson is the final lesson in this Colour Creations art series. It looks at the work of Wassily Kandinsky and how he uses colour. Your class will examine his artwork before recreating his famous 'circles' in their own way using everything they have learnt about colour.

This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• KS1 - to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• 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.