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  • Insects Art – Drawing Insects

    Insects Art – Drawing Insects

    These Insects Worksheets are always popular. Get your classes working in fine liner or complete the sheet in a range of media. This would also be a useful resource for a minibeasts/bugs project. Teach drawing skills, fine motor skills and symmetry. Check out all the insect art resources on The Arty Teacher, or animal art…

  • Sentence Starters for Annotating Sketchbooks

    Sentence Starters for Annotating Sketchbooks

    Support your students when annotating their sketchbooks with these sentence starters. Areas covered include: Artist Research Pages Experimenting with Different Media Content Development Personal Response Reviewing Compositions This resource also includes some good examples of annotation in the black boxes.

  • Skull Grid Drawing Cover / Sub Lesson

    Skull Grid Drawing Cover / Sub Lesson

    Encourage detailed drawing with this skull grid drawing.  It is available as a landscape or portrait page.  This resource includes a lesson plan which is simple enough for a non-art specialist.

  • Talking About Art

    Talking About Art

    Use the ‘Talking About Art’ placemat as a stimulus when asking your students to talk about art. The download includes a document that explains how to use the placemat for a starter activity, where you divide your class into groups and give them time to discuss the sentence starters, and then you ask for feedback. …

  • Skull Tonal Exercise

    Skull Tonal Exercise

    A really useful resource to teach your students the importance of creating a range of tones.  I’ve had excellent results with this resource. This is great for showing that tones/values can turn a flat image into one with form. For the same resource which uses the word ‘Value’ click here.

  • Skull Value Exercise

    Skull Value Exercise

    Ideal for teaching the elements of art, this skull value exercise gets students to focus on creating a broad range of tones. I’ve had beautiful results with this resource. For the same resource that uses the word ‘Tonal’ click here.