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 this digital art with my pupils before and they really enjoyed it. read more…
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 in the presentation for pupils to unjumble.
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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 a great display travelling up the wall, around the door and even onto the ceiling!
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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 arts lesson could be done with any age group.
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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 lessons is on colour and pattern.
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Fónaic na Gaeilge 02
This phonics display resource consists of posters drawing pupils’ attention to word patterns in Gaeilge to help with spelling and written work. Twelve different phonics patterns are included in the resource. Each pattern has two posters, one with a large image and a single word, the other showing 14 examples of words with this sound pattern.
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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 and different.
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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 each image and trace over the word label on each individual worksheet.
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Hexagonal Design
This Visual Arts lesson can be integrated with work on 2D shapes in maths. It can be completed in any medium – paint, watercolour, crayon, markers, chalk or oil pastels etc. The same method can also be used for almost any other 2D shapes also. Its focus is on use of colour, pattern and shape.
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Dathanna
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior/middle classes who are learning the names of colours as Gaeilge. They are printed two crayons per A4 page and the word label is in all lower case letters. 17 colour crayons are included in the display pack which contains all of the usual colour names that pupils should know.
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