Colour Creations

Get creative and colourful with this set of five Colour Creations Art lessons for KS1! Your class will think about their favourite colours and the colours that are all around them every day, before looking at how colours are used in art. They will learn about primary colours, secondary colours, colour mixing, and light and shade, as well as look at the artwork of artists who use colours in interesting ways, namely Kandinsky and Mondrian.

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!

A Knowledge Organiser is included in the complete series download, or is available to purchase separately.

Favourite Colours

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.

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Primary Colours

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.

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Mixing Colours

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 complementary flowers!

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

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Light and Dark

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.

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Kandinsky Circles

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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This Year 1/2 Art Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our Art & Design strand. It is designed to support your children’s understanding of key vocabulary linked to this scheme of work. Relevant vocabulary and artistic skills have been identified to encourage children to apply their knowledge around this topic.

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