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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French Vocabulary
With the Rugby World Cup currently taking place in France, this might be an opportune time to look at French vocabulary which is commonly used in the English language. Pupils might be somewhat surprised to discover that many words that we commonly use in everyday speech are actually derived from French. This resource contains almost one hundred French words or phrases on Flashcards,
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Initial Art
This Visual Art lesson using either paint or colours (crayons, pastels etc.) is a suitable lesson for the beginning of the year. Aimed at pupils in middle/senior classes, the lesson gets pupils to visually represent the initial of their first or second name on a grid. These pictures look great when displayed all together in your art display area.
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Rugby World Cup 2023 Table Quiz
Rugby World Cup 2023 begins in France this weekend so it is a great time to mark the tournament over the next seven weeks with a Table Quiz. This resource comprises eight rounds of six questions, a Tie-Break round, Rugby Jokes between rounds and answers to all questions on 152 Powerpoint slides. It is geared towards pupils in the middle/senior end of the school.
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