Starter quiz
A flower has no texture.- True
- False ✓
- What can be used to create a pattern?
- only squares and circles
- only colours and shapes
- shapes, colours, lines and even repeating motifs ✓
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- What is a motif in a pattern?
- a random idea
- a repeating design or symbol ✓
- something that doesn't change
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- What can you use to make a vegetable print?
- a paintbrush
- a vegetable, like a potato ✓
- a chalk pastel
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Exit quiz
- How can you make a bumpy texture in clay?
- Use stamps to press into the clay. ✓
- Press items with patterns into the clay. ✓
- Use a rolling pin to roll out a flat shape.
- Use the end of a paintbrush to press into the clay. ✓
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- Put the steps in the correct order to make a flower using clay.
- 1⇔Observe the shapes in your flower.
- 2⇔Make the shapes out of clay.
- 3⇔Join your shapes to make a flower form.
- 4⇔Use tools to create textures on the flower form.
- Flowers are ______ dimensional forms.
- 'three' ✓
- What does a curator do?
- selects and organises books
- selects and organises artwork to display ✓
- organises paints into colour groups
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Natural forms have shape.
- Shapes can be joined and moulded to create forms.
- Artists can show different textures with clay, using clay tools.
- Curators decide how to display artwork in a wide range of spaces.
Common misconception
The petals of a flower are flat.
Remind children that the petals of a flower curve and bend, so are not flat shapes. They are a three-dimensional form.
Keywords
Shape - the form of something made by a line around the edge
Form - something solid, which takes up a three dimensional space
Texture - how something feels when it is touched
Curator - a person who selects and organises work to display
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