Art
Supporting your child with Art & Design at home
You may be wondering how best to help your child at home with developing their skills further, so I hope you will find the following information useful. I have put together some websites with useful clips of how to develop the skills at each key stage. At Westglade, the content of our Art and Design curriculum is taken from the 2014 National curriculum for Primary schools in England.
This is the Art and Design overview for both Key Stage 1 and 2:
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Key Stage 1 |
- to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products - to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination - to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space - about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
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Key Stage 2 |
- to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas - to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay] - about great artists, architects and designers in history.
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How can I support my child with art?
1. Get messy!
Try to get hold of as many different types of drawing and painting resources as you can to let your child get creative and explore creating art using different materials. Paints, chalk, crayons, pens, pencils, modelling clay and much more can be found in discount shops. Just don’t forget to put lots of newspaper down first!
2. Use household objects creatively
Alternatively, instead of buying materials, let them get creative using things around the house – for example, pasta and pulses to create pictures using glue. You could even experiment with colour-changing art.
3. Keep a sketchbook
Encourage your child to keep a sketchbook. Suggest that they take it with them when they go out so that they can look for things to sketch – a tree, a building, a scene. Alternatively, if they see something they would like to draw, take a photo on your phone and let them sketch from it when they are home.
4. Celebrate your child's art
Praise your child’s creations and encourage them not to get disheartened if they feel they have made ‘mistakes’. Explain that art is about being creative and trying out different things. There is no right or wrong way to do things. You could even ‘frame’ their work using coloured paper or card and create a little gallery on the kitchen wall or in their bedroom to display their work.
5. Discuss and enjoy art together
Find out about local art galleries or museums that you can visit with your child. Encourage them to talk about what they see and to share their opinions – about subject matter, colours, what materials the artist used, and so on.
Enjoy watching the variety of clips that cover the elements of drawing, painting, sculpture, textiles, colour and shape, media and their materials as well as finding out about a variety of artists from history and some projects you may like to try at home.
Why not find out about famous artists and architects from history and present day?
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Artists: |
Architects:
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Claude Monet |
Antoni Gaudi |
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Kandinsky |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Andy Warhol |
Mies Van der Rohe |
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Picasso |
Phillip Johnson |
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Van Gogh |
Eero Saarinen |
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Georgia O’ Keeffe |
Richard Rogers |
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Gustav Klimt |
Frank Gehry |
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Andy Goldsworthy |
Norman Foster |
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Paul Klee |
Renzo Piano |
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M.C. Escher |
Santiago Calatrava |
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Georges Seurat |
Zaha Hadid |
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Frida Kahlo |
Oscar Niemeyer |
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Keith Haring |
Rem Koolhas |