Links to free to use Art and Design interactive resources, games and activities, covering, key stages 2, grades 3-6, ages 7-11 years.
Here are 6 random links from this subject
Wallovers Interactive
WALLOVERS are symmetrical decorations painted on a virtual wall. Select a grid, pattern, and background color, then create your own designs, or click the AUTODRAW button and watch the computer generate interlaced patterns for you.
Caterpillar Collage Lesson Plan
Students will read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. They will then create caterpillar pictures using tissue paper collage techniques.
Seasonal Tree Canvases Text
This lovely craft idea can be undertaken in one go as a project on the seasons - or in four parts over the year as each season arrives. However you choose to do it, the canvases make an eye-catching display.
Vincent Van Gogh Video
A dramatized autobiography of the artist Vincent van Gogh talking about his work. He talks about how he drew and painted farmers and people who worked on the land in Holland, using dark colours to represent the gloominess of their labour. After moving to France he began to paint using brighter colours, drawing the landscapes and using nature as an inspiration for his work.
Mowing A Design Video
A rocket shape is drawn on paper, sectioned with a grid and mown into a grass lawn. The rocket shape is first sketched out and a box grid overlaid to break it down into sections. The shape is then mapped onto a grass lawn using string and stakes for accuracy before being cut using lawn mowers.
Collage Landscape Video
Using two contrasting landscapes as the subject, this is a demonstration of using collage materials and composition to blend them into one continuous image. Emphasis is on texture and colour and how different materials can best represent real life objects according to their size, shape, colour and texture.
