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 “An...
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...
Colour Red Resource Pack

Colour Red Resource Pack

This Colour Red Resource Pack is intended to support a topic of work on the colour Red in junior classes. It contains 17 different files with over 200 pages of resource material. The pack contains resources for display in the classroom as well as lots of activities...
Symmetrical String Prints

Symmetrical String 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 also uses a very common item to produce symmetrical prints...
Weave Silk Art

Weave Silk Art

Have you ever tried doing some Digital Art with your pupils? I originally came across the Weave Silk website ten years ago when it was recommended on Twitter by the late, great Bianca Ní Ghrógáin, who was always a mine full of the greatest digital ideas. I’ve tried...
Unjumble the Sentences 01

Unjumble the Sentences 01

This PPTX resource is aimed at pupils in first to third classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assist with the understanding of both sentence structure, comprehension and reading for meaning. These sentences are made up of six words. There are 25 different sentences...
Shoe Prints Art

Shoe Prints Art

This is a really simple and easy art lesson to do, yet it is one which pupils of any age will enjoy. It focuses on the pattern of the shoes that they are wearing in school and trying to recreate that pattern onto a shoe print. A class full of these shoe prints makes...
Salad Spinner Art

Salad Spinner Art

If you are not using that salad spinner at the back of the kitchen press any more, bring it in to school to make a great piece of visual art. All you need to create this effective piece of art is the salad spinner, paper plates and paint, it’s that easy. This visual...
Sun Pictures

Sun Pictures

This Visual Arts resource contains two simple, yet effective, line drawings, creating a pattern which can be coloured using any art medium that you wish, eg. crayons, markers, colouring pencils or paint. They mimic rays coming out from quarter suns. The focus of both...
Roald Dahl Day 2023 Bookmarks

Roald Dahl Day 2023 Bookmarks

To mark Roald Dahl Day 2023, these Free bookmarks celebrate the ever popular book “Fantastic Mr. Fox”. There are six different bookmarks in the download featuring different characters from the book. The bookmarks are in full colour and are printed three per A4 page....
Spider Web Art

Spider Web Art

This Visual Arts lesson is quite easy and quick to do. However, it can really only be done in small groups and with adult supervision for younger pupils. However, It’s one of those lessons that pupils of all abilities can do and the end product is always interesting...
Alphabet Colouring Book

Alphabet Colouring Book

This resource consists of a 27 page pupil booklet to help consolidate pupils’ knowledge of words that begin with each letter of the alphabet. There is a separate page for each letter of the alphabet. 4/5 images are included on each page. Pupils are asked to colour...