Year 1 Art Lesson Plans

More About ME art lesson plans! In this unit many of the art lessons are based on self portraits and individualised projects where each student can focus on the self. Try colourful portrait projects inspired by Sandra Silberzweig and Romero Britto.

Explore Art from Australia with a range of exciting lesson plans. Try out different art materials and techniques including painted paper collage inspired by Pete Cromer, drawing, mixed media and painting.

Have fun with clay! Create and make relief and 3D clay projects with a clay turtle, starry night mobile and sheep to create. Learn how to make an animal relief clay plaque and an enchanting bobble head dragon. To really refine those clay skills, there is also a layered terrarium to make with textured plant details to inspire your class.

Explore Australian Aboriginal Artists and their culture in this second unit of colourful art lesson plans. We will use a range of materials and techniques including painted paper collage, drawing, clay and painting.

Explore Women Artists with these colourful art lesson plans. Your students can discover the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama and Faith Ringgold in these lesson plans. Create artworks inspired by pop artist Corita Kent and contemporary artist Jane Donaldson. 

Students will have fun creating a range of African animal artworks. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different African animals to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, ink drawing,  and printmaking, whilst having fun in the African savannah. 

Learn all about colour with monsters to create, sneakers to design and colour mixing artworks to create.  Learn about the art of abstract trailblazer Sonia Delauney and contemporary artist, Janet Skates whose works are both based on colour and contrast.

Make your year in the art room easier with a full year of ACE art curriculum lesson plans worked out for you and ready to use! Teachers, take your class on a round-the-world trip, looking at the artists and cultures of countries such as Japan, Australia, America, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru. 

Children love their pets and we have a whole unit that explores this special connection. Creatures of all shapes and sizes, cuddly, scaled and slimy delight children and also offer a special kind of companionship.

Explore UK artists with these colourful art lesson plans. Your students can discover the art of designers Orla Kiely and William Morris, create works inspired by Eric Carle,  David Hockney and Simon Wiltshire in this quintessentially UK art unit. We will use a range of materials and techniques including collage, printmaking, watercolour painting, drawing, mixed media and painting. 

Students will have fun creating a range of farm animal artworks, some are inspired by artists Jean Dubuffet and Pablo Picasso. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different farm animals to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, drawing, clay and printmaking, whilst having all the fun at the farm. 

Explore US artists with these colourful art lessons. Your students can discover pop art, modernism, neo-expressionism, abstract and folk art all in this American dream of a unit. We will use a range of materials and techniques including collage, watercolour painting, mono-printing, mixed media and painting. 

Wellbeing art lesson plans! In this unit the art lessons are based on increasing your students wellbeing and knowledge of self. We  look at emotions and positive thoughts while practising mindfulness by focusing on the present. 

Have fun learning about owls, a bird of prey symbolising wisdom and found in nearly every environment on Earth. They are charismatic birds of prey and in folklore, a symbol of wisdom and intuition.

Visit Mexico and explore the art of cultural events such as the Day of the Dead. Draw a portrait of famous Mexican artist Frida Khalo and tool a metal heart. Learn about Tonala clay owls and design an Aztec patterned cactus bowl.

The Impressionists are one of the most well known group of artists in art history. They created their impression paintings in the 1860s to 1880s. 

Create amazing mythical creatures in these fun drawing, painting and sculpture projects. There are monsters, dragons and unicorns to make and sculpt, a beautiful pegasus from marbled paper and a fun undewater mermaid to draw.  

Have fun learning about trees and plants while your students explore and create beautiful artworks with clay, paint and mixed media.

Have fun with some food art with Fruit and Vegetable Art Lessons. In this unit, students will enjoy creating a range of mouth watering fresh fruit and vegetable inspired art works. A wonderful cross-curricular unit to promote healthy eating!

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