by admin | Mar 13, 2025 | Music, St. Patrick's Day
This resource could be used around the time of the Six Nations Rugby Tournament, around the time of the Rugby World Cup or around the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. It consists of display posters giving details around the history of the song, how it came...
by admin | Mar 10, 2025 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, St. Patrick's Day, Visual Arts
This is a fun seasonal visual arts lesson to be completed coming up to the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. It is fairly simple to put it together, with only art paper needed to complete it. The completed shamrock characters look great when displayed together on the...
by admin | Sep 26, 2024 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts, Visual Arts
This set of ten different Visual Arts display posters introduces pupils to vocabulary needed to discuss a piece of art that they have created or a piece created by someone else. Its aim is to create an awareness of these terms which are commonly used in the artistic...
by admin | Sep 23, 2024 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
This Tissue paper Weaving lesson can be a little “fiddly”, so it may be better to do it with pupils in middle/senior classes. However, the finished product in this lesson creates some really nice effects when displayed. This lesson could be done as part of the...
by admin | Sep 12, 2024 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, Visual Arts
This Visual Arts lesson focuses on the the idea of a using a repeated pattern to create a piece of visual art. There is a set pattern to follow or the pupils can come up with their own pattern. Two different colour patterns are outlined in the lesson. This lesson is...
by admin | Sep 9, 2024 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
This visual arts lesson focuses on looking at and observing growing fuchsia flowers and creating a picture from your observations. This lesson could be done with pupils in middle and senior classes and is suitable to be integrated into a flowers or gardening theme in...
by admin | Sep 5, 2024 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
Directed Drawing gives pupils step-by-step directions on how to create an image. They assist pupils in following directions, following a sequence as well as allowing them to be creative. It allows pupils to break down an image into more manageable chunks, thereby...
by admin | Sep 1, 2024 | 1st/2nd, Infants, Labhairt, Music, Oral Work
This resource should be a staple for all infant teachers. It contains 72 different songs and rhymes in both English and Gaeilge, all to be sung to the tune of Frere Jacques, a tune that most pupils and teachers should know. It contains rhymes to help with classroom...
by admin | Aug 23, 2024 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
Directed Drawing gives pupils step-by-step directions on how to create an image. They assist pupils in following directions, following a sequence as well as allowing them to be creative. It allows pupils to break down an image into more manageable chunks, thereby...
by admin | Jun 9, 2024 | Miscellaneous, Summer, Visual Arts
Father’s Day is celebrated annually on the third Sunday of June. To mark the day, this resource consists of a set of black/white Father’s Day cards for pupils to colour. 15 different cards are included in this resource – 10 in English and 5 as...
by admin | Apr 24, 2024 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
This visual art lesson is aimed at pupils in middle and senior classes. It is based on Mandala Art, believed to have originated in the fourth century by Buddhist monks. Usually consisting of a series of concentric circles and patterns, creating or colouring mandalas...
by admin | Apr 21, 2024 | 3rd/4th, Summer, Visual Arts
This visual arts lesson could be done in the final term and is suitable to be integrated into a summer or gardening theme in the classroom. Pupils have to design and cut flowers and leaves and stick them onto a hanging basket background. Materials needed for...
by admin | Apr 16, 2024 | 1st/2nd, Infants, Visual Arts
This is a nice visual arts lesson to do during the summer term. It could be done as a standalone art lesson, or it could be done as part of a “Marine” theme in the classroom. The picture is created using lollipop sticks, coloured paper and glue. It is probably more...
by admin | Apr 11, 2024 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Visual Arts
As well as creating pieces of art, pupils are required under each of the six Strands of the Irish Visual Arts curriculum to look at and respond to art created by others. These four lessons give pupils opportunities to “look at, enjoy and make a personal response” to...
by admin | Apr 8, 2024 | Visual Arts
This lesson is most suitable to do during the summer term or when working on a “sea” theme in the classroom. It uses a printing technique with potatoes to create a seascape picture. It could be done as a standalone lesson under the Paint Strand of the Visual Arts...
