Scrafitti Art

Scrafitti Art

This Visual Arts lesson combines a “taking a line for a walk” lesson with wax crayons and paint. In a three-step lesson, pupils firstly create a wax crayon design. This is then completely covered in thick black paint. A pattern is then scratched out of the black paint...
Picasso Portraits

Picasso Portraits

These two visual arts lessons are aimed to be integrated with a unit of work on the artist Pablo Picasso. The class should look at the life and artistic works of this Spanish artist, focusing especially on his Cubist style of paintings and the Rose and Blue Periods of...
Book Review – Lottie and the Stolen Pirate Ship

Book Review – Lottie and the Stolen Pirate Ship

This is a magical adventure story for young kids to enjoy. The main plot is to trace or find the stolen pirate ship. The story begins by introducing the main characters Lottie, Mia, Finn and Biscuit the dog. Like all children, they enjoy playing together and allowing...
Cláir Teilifíse

Cláir Teilifíse

This resource is intended to support the theme of “An Teilifís” in the classroom. It has display resources for a variety of different television programmes as well as resources to support the development of oral language and written work on the theme of...
Symmetrical Foldover Prints

Symmetrical Foldover Prints

This lesson can be used as part of the Print Strand of the Visual Arts curriculum. It can also be integrated with the theme of symmetry in maths as it shows in a very visual way this mathematical concept. It uses paint poured straight from the bottle so there is no...