This ‘Managing Wellbeing and Stress’ assembly talks to students about the importance of exercise, sleep and how they can use meditation, natural sounds, healthy eating and positive thinking to help relieve stress. It’s tone is light-hearted and engaging. It includes a section where students have the choice to join in with a meditation or to just listen. It will send you students out into the day feeling positive. Estimated reading time: 12 minutes

This colour schemes art lesson asks your students to colour the patterned circles using harmonious or analogous, complementary and monochromatic colours. There are versions for the US and the UK with the different spellings of colour/color and the different use of harmonious/analogous. With this download you receive: The one-page resource pictured above. A colour wheel (One on a page) A color wheel (Two on a page)

3 gargoyle grid drawings which are excellent for teaching detailed, tonal drawing. There are two versions of each grid drawing. One with the grid in place and one where there are tiny marks around the edge of the square so that students can draw their own lines.

This drawing fruit worksheet is a must have for fruit and vegetable projects. High-resolution images work well in colour and when photocopied into black and white. Use it as a sub lesson or integrate it into fruit or natural forms projects. The accompanying lesson plan is written as a sub lesson and includes a scripted paragraph for a non-specialist.

Students copy the detail of the sugar skull and then the mirror image of a sugar skull. Ideal to teach drawing skills and to link with Day of Dead festival units of work. Includes a lesson plan.

A popular, one page, cover / sub lessons that asks students to accurately copy the pattern. Includes lesson plan.

A super useful resource to support students when they annotate an artists work.

A useful art resource to support students annotating their own work. It is complete with sentence starters and a good example.

Using this ‘Mark Making Cubes’ project is a great way to teach mark making and results in a striking display.  Each student applies gradated mark making to a cube net and then creates a cube.  A great way to introduce maths (using a net) into the art curriculum.  Included in this download is: A detailed lesson plan. A mark making worksheet A making making cube worksheet There are lots of mark making resources on The Arty Teacher website. www.TheArtyTeacher.com

8 pages of fish images. A total of 22 fish. Ideal for drawing projects.

This assembly provides your students with strategies to think more positively. It gives a metaphor that positivity is like a huge jar of nutella, and they can dip their finger in whenever they wish to pull out some positivity! It covers the following strategies: Smiling and Laughter practicing Gratitude Positive Affirmations Avoiding Negative People Doing something kind Music Exercise. It’s a fun assembly that uses humor and facts to convey it’s message. I got lots of positive feed back from students and staff after delivering this assembly! Approx 15 - 20 mins long depending on your speed. It includes a poem that you could take out if you wished to shorten it. Also included are a Positive Thinking Poster, and come Positive Thinking Nutella jars to laminate and stick around your school to remind people to ‘Think Positive’. (Staff Included!)

Are you fed up with hearing ‘I can’t draw’? Me too! I shall be doing everything I can to change this fixed mindset attitude with my classes and will be using this one page resource to infuse a growth mindset into my students. This resources also includes a page of suggested answers. This makes a great starter or discuss it in class and then set it as a homework.

Three different 'ice-breaker bingo' sheets. This is ideal if you have a new group of students. All students need to do is talk to everyone in the group and find individuals who have done the things on their bingo sheet. e.g. eaten sushi, play a musical instrument, broken a bone, been to a festival... This really gets students talking to each other and is a great warm up activity.

This is a one-page, versatile sunflower grid drawing, uploaded with three different titles: Observational Drawing Van Gogh Sunflowers It’s hard to see from the image, but the box on the right has tiny marks so your students can easily draw the grid without any measuring, and rub out the lines at the end should they wish to do so. Excellent for teaching drawing skills. It is a high-resolution image. www.TheArtyTeacher.com

Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised I’ve updated my ‘Blooms Taxonomy for Art’ and ‘Blooms Taxonomy Question Cards’ and bundled them together. With this resource you receive: Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised (pictured right) Blooms Question Cards Lesson Plan for Question Cards They both now include the headings: Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Simply print and laminate the questions cards so you can use them again and again. You can even hole punch the corner for easy storage. The lesson plan details a group questioning activity to stimulate discussion which can be used with any artwork so this lesson can integrate into any project. There are versions for the UK & US with the different spellings of analysing and colour.

This creative Pointillism Eye project, teaches students about Pointillism, Seurat and optical mixing. It includes everything you need. Ideal for a post-sats project or for Year 7. It starts with Students looking at a PowerPoint on Pointillism focusing on Seurat. (16 slides) It includes a script and looks at: A definition for Pointillism Seurat & Signac How the Impressionists influenced them. Two of Seurats paintings in detail. Pablo Jurado Ruiz, a contemporary artists who used pointillism today. How to mix colours using Pointillism. Then a stage by stage look at how the ‘good example’ (Main picture above) was built up. A Pointillism worksheet enables students practice optical mixing - this also helps create a great display. You then have two choices. Either get your students to draw an eye, (using the eye drawing reference sheet provided) or use the faint eye provided and ask students to add dots over the top. There is a Self Assessment sheets that looks at how closely they have applied their dots and how neatly. (Two on an A4 page) There are suggested extension tasks. Duration: Using faint eye: 2 hrs 5 mins. Drawing own eye: 3 hrs. (There suggested extension tasks could make this a lot longer!) I am always looking to improve my resources, so if you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments box.

This drawing sweets resource could be used for a close-ups project, a food art project or just for drawing practice. The high resolution, detailed drawings of gummy bears provide a challenge for your students. Print in colour and ask your students to work in coloured pencil, or print in black and white and work in pencil. This one-page resource has two versions – one with the spelling ‘colour’ and the word ‘tone’, the other with the spelling ‘color’ and the word ‘value’. Other key words are Line, accuracy, shading and highlights. Make links to artists: Sarah Graham, Roberto Bernardi or Daryl Gortner.

This document includes a link to a list of artists, photographers and ceramicists listed by theme. Each artist name leads to a website or google search. This is an excellent, free resource for teachers and exam students. Themes include landscape, portraits, natural forms, death, altered books, animals in art, buildings, city-scapes, coastal scenes, close-ups, collage dance, everyday objects, family, identity, machinery and many more! This is an ever growing list!

Students create tone using a variety of different mark making techniques. Great to incorporate into your schemes of work or to use as a cover lesson or homework task. Click on 'View as part of Bundle' to see my Mark Making Bundle!

An excellent 'Close-Ups' worksheet to teach drawing skills. Ideal for a lesson, homework or cover lesson.