Monet and the Impressionists

#TheCompleteSeries6lessons

Through these Monet Art lessons, your class will explore Impressionism, find out Monet's life and some of most famous works of art, as well as putting their own creative spin on these Impressionist masterpieces through a variety of Monet art activities, such as recreating his famous 'Haystacks' series.

This Monet KS2 scheme of work contains everything you need in order to deliver outstanding Art lessons to your class. Each lesson comes fully prepared with a lesson plan, a slideshow for the whole-class teaching input, differentiated activity ideas, step-by-step instructions for a variety of Monet Art activities, and a range of printable resources, such as worksheets and picture cards, to support your class as they create their own Monet and the Impressionists artwork!

#Lesson1Impressionism

This Impressionism KS2 lesson pack for Year 5 or Year 6 will give your class a brief overview of what the art establishment in France was like before the Impressionist movement began. They will then go on to explore some of the reasons behind the spread of new art ideas and how an insult gave Impressionism its name. They will then explore a variety of Impressionist artists and their work, exploring what they had in common.

This Impressionism Art lesson contains a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

#Lesson2MonetLandscapes

This Monet Landscapes Art lesson for Year 5/6 children starts by looking a little closer at the life of Claude Monet before exploring some of his most famous landscape paintings.

The included slideshow presentation then goes through a step-by-step process for how your class can create their very own Impressionist landscapes. They'll then follow these steps to create impressive artwork during their independent art time. There's also the option of going outside to paint an Impressionist painting just like Monet would have done.

This Monet Landscapes planning pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the whole-class input, differentiated activity ideas and a variety of printable picture cards for inspiration and support.

#Lesson3MonetHaystacks

This Monet Haystacks Art lesson for KS2 children looks at Monet's famous 'Haystacks' series and helps your Year 5/6 class to understand that the Impressionists were interested in light itself as a subject.

They will look in detail at some of Monet's haystack paintings before using a variety of techniques to recreate them for themselves, using colours to portray particular seasons. The slideshow presentation goes through a step-by-step process for how children can do this.

This Monet Haystacks Art lesson is fully prepared and ready for you to deliver to your class. All you need to do is get the paints out!

#Lesson4Cityscapes

This KS2 Impressionism Art lesson explores some of Monet's famous paintings o