Exploring flora and fauna - ‘Think of The Very Hungry Caterpillar’

This term we will be exploring patterns found in the natural environment and eventually using these to create collages and mixed media artwork of landscapes and minibeasts. Each week children will be exploring how to replicate these focusing on symmetry, pattern and design using a variety of mixed media.

Key Concepts and curriculum links:

• That artists can be inspired by the flora and fauna around them.

• That we can use careful looking to help our drawing, and use drawing to help looking.

• That we can use a variety of materials to make images, and that the images we make can become imaginative.

• That we can create individual artwork, and that we can bring that artwork together to make a shared artwork.

This term we will be working with shape and colour, we will learn:

• That we can be inspired by key artworks and make our own work in creative response. 

• That we can use shape and colour as a way to simplify elements of the world.

• That shapes have both a positive and negative element.

• That we can arrange shapes to create exciting compositions.

• That we can build up imagery through layering shapes.

• That we can use collage to inspire prints.

This term we will be learning about how we can use art to explore global issues through the theme of climate change, landscapes, habitats and animals. We will learn:

• That art can help us focus on, and explore, big issues. By looking at the artwork of others, and by making our own artwork about something we feel connected to.

• That by working alongside others on a similar project we can feel a shared sense of purpose. We can motivate and inspire.

• That we can bring many disciplines together (including drawing, painting and sculpture) into one artwork.