Teaching Resources

Activity 1 Tea Stain Doodles

Sometimes it can be hard to know how to start an artwork. Why not start with a mistake? Putting something unexpected on the page makes it...

Activity 2 Picasso Portraits

Have you ever tried to draw someone from every angle all at once? Pablo Picasso was a famous painter who helped start the cubist...

Activity 3 Eye Spy Poetry

Poetry is a careful selection of words to make the reader imagine something or feel a certain way. Today we’ll be writing short poems...

Activity 4 Olympic Statues

A tableau is when you pose your body and freeze like a statue to tell a story. Today we’ll be making tableaux (frozen pictures) of...

Activity 5 Trashcan Composition

Did you know that you can make music out of things in your bin? Percussion is music you make by hitting objects (or yourself) with your...

Activity 6 Dancing Doodles

STEP ONE: Listen to “Gopher Mambo” by Yma Sumac (https://spoti.fi/39uphKz). Doodle, squiggle and draw shapes and lines around your page...

Activity 7 Acrostic Poems

Do you know what season we are in? Djeran is the Nyoongar season of April and May when the cooler weather begins. Typically, Djeran means...

Activity 8 Photo Treasure Hunt

Explore your living room and back yard to find and photograph treasure in your very own home!Today we’ll be touring our homes with a...

Activity 9 Farmyard Finger Painting

Have a look at your fingertips and see all the different swirls. That is your very own unique finger print. No two are the same! Today...

Activity 10 Fantasy Nature Collage

Collage doesn’t have to mean paper and glue! You can combine all sorts of found objects and photograph them to create amazing fantasy...

Understanding Perspective

1) Using a pencil and a ruler draw a horizon line in the middle of your page , a small x in the middle of the horizon to use as a...

Making an Emotions Mask + Template

MaterialsMask template photocopied on to A3 cardScissorsSharp lead pencilSelection of various colours of card (at least 4-6 different...

Interview with an Artwork

Sometimes we don’t understand an artwork, or a performance completely the first time we interact with it. You need to ask yourself and...

Creating an Optical Illusion

Materials2x A4 Paper1x A3 PaperScissorsGlueCraft Materials (we used markers)1) Get into pairs and each create a separate picture on an A4...

Creating a 3D Illusion

MaterialsPaperPencilRulerColoured markersMug1) Using a pencil,trace around your hand and the bottom of a mug so that you have a circle on...

Create Your Own Story Cubes + Symbols

1) Copy 4 story cube templates and cut out along the straight lines (You can simplify this activity by separating into a group of 4 and...