In this introductory Art lesson, students explore the elements of line, pattern, and colour to create a vibrant “patterned landscape”. Through guided instruction, students will experiment with repetition and arrangement to establish engaging patterns within their compositions.
This lesson is perfect for cover lessons and includes a fun “register pattern bingo” activity that students love.
All you’ll need are A4 paper and pens for the students to get started.
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Zentangle Insects & Bugs Art Activity | Mindful Doodle Colouring Pages + Pattern Sheets
Unlock your students’ creativity and focus with this Zentangle Insect & Bug Art Pack! This resource includes 8 beautifully designed bug and insect outlines—from butterflies and dragonflies to ants, beetles, and scorpions—ready to be filled in with Zentangle patterns.
Also included are 4 reference sheets of Zentangle pattern ideas to guide or inspire students as they doodle.
Perfect for:
Key stage 3 or 4
Sub/ COVER Lesson plans or early finisher activities
Mindfulness and SEL-based lessons
Spring or insect-themed units
What’s Included:
8 Zentangle bug templates (butterfly, bee, beetle, ant, fly, scorpion, dragonfly, spider, geometric beetle)
4 Zentangle pattern idea/reference pages
High-quality black and white printable pages (ready to print and go)
Encourage calm, concentration, and artistic expression in your classroom with this engaging Zentangle resource!
PDF BOOKLET
As the title suggests, this is a colouring sheet for finding fractions of amounts. Unlike other maths colouring sheets, each sheet only requires four different colours and therefore requires fewer teacher supplies. Students solve the answers to the questions and colour based on their solution. This then creates a pattern which looks great on a classroom wall. It also makes it very easy to tell which students understand and which need help as their answers are easy to see from a distance. Win-win as students are pleased to see their work displayed and the classroom looks brighter. :) The solution is the pattern displayed. Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
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14 ABA repeating pattern strips with a focus on colour and shape and colour.
Includes matching version and continue version.
Can be used with linking shapes or in a wipe clean pouch/laminating sheet with coloured white board pens for shape drawing.
Comes with solid shape version to use with magnetic/wooden shapes
Great for Primary or KS3 Students.
This downloadable pack includes 3 unique worksheets each including a literacy based task. All are designed to spark children’s imaginations and artistic talents.
Plus, they are super easy to use, no prep, just print out and go!
No fancy art supplies needed – just crayons, pencils, or markers will do.
Simple instructions suitable for a range of abilities
Each work sheet is designed to be completed over a 60-50 minute lesson and offers a different artistic challenge.
These worksheets are really useful to have to hand and can be used for
cover lessons
wet break activities
after-school/ lunchtime club activities
homeschooling tasks
extention work for early finishers
as part of starter tasks/retrieval tasks
Quick and Easy Homework tasks
Skill building
Happy Teaching :-)
5 mindful colouring pages to create a moment of calm in the classroom. Focus your student’s attention and enjoy the beauty and simplicity of repetitive patterns. Using colours that reflect inner mood, complete stunning images. Count shapes, find patterns, spot types of angles and encourage use of geometrical terms.
A cute little activity to support colour knowledge and pattern matching
Contains -
x9 strips with various arrangments of the colour monsters
x1 table sign
dots to stick on pegs for colour matching
colour monster images to sue for pattern matching
The aims of this KS3 Printmaking Pattern Project are for students to understand how to design patterns, understand the poly-printing process and learn how to take inspiration from a street artist. It introduces students to a wide range of materials incuding printing equipment and Indian inks.
Students create two drawn designs (one in colour) and develop them into poly printing designs. They create their own backgrounds to print onto and create a final outcome inspired by an artist.
I designed this project with a few aims in mind:
The project had to be engaging for different sub-groups including disadvantaged boys
It allowed students to analyse and discuss graffiti and street art
Students could respond to the artist in their own way
It gave students autonomy over their final outcomes
Students learned a printmaking process
Students could learn from their mistakes and refine their work
The project included colour theory
The presentation has over 40 slides, including:
an artist for students to research
steps for creating a rotational pattern design
a video for students to watch when creating their polyboard design
entry tasks / starters / do now / exit task activities for each part of the project
examples of student’s work throughout
notes on some slides to clearly explain what to do
slides that can be printed for lesson resources
set of 54 colour pattern strips, these can be used with pegs, counters, anything with the matching colours! great for colour recognition and pattern work. There are also incomplete patterns for children to carry on and blank strips for children to make their own patterns. These can be laminated and used as a classroom resource or photocopied and used as a worksheet or homework.
A quick and easy activity set up to help support pattern matching and colour identification.
I use these with multilink cubes.
Contains -
x1 table sign
x4 A4’s each with 3 pattern strips
Each pattern strip is a simple repeating pattern of 2 colours. Ideal activity for start of year
12 colour charts (3 skin tone charts) made using the Sassoon primary std font.
There are three charts to an A4 page and each chart has 5 shades.
I was struggling to find these in B&Q or homebase so I made my own, hope they are useful!
Here are 5 colour patterns for children to copy.
Each page shows a colour pattern and a black and white template to fill in.
Children can also make their own design colour patterns.
A resource linked to Spring, Summer, Animals or Insects.
Sheet 1 shows 6 outline butterflies for children to colour in using their own ideas of colour and pattern. They could make them all the same, all different, or make them so that they match the colour butterflies in sheet 2.
Sheet 3 shows the 6 colour butterflies in sheet 2 with the colour circles left clear. Children can add their own colours or the matching colours for sheet 2.
Talk about colour, pattern, shape and symmetry with the children.
Duplicate the sheets, cut out and laminate for matching games.
Enlarge the sheets for use with a range of media such as paint and collage or to add to displays.
This resource is a collection of 18 colour flashcards that can be cut out and laminated if desired. It can be used with practical resources such as blocks, bricks, gummed squares of paper.
It includes:
Flashcards (18): Brightly coloured images of ‘Stickle’ blocks / bricks.
Practical Activity Sheets (2): Children use blocks, bricks, or square gummed paper to recreate the patterns shown on the sheets. They can also incorporate number by counting colours and how many blocks in each tower.
Colouring Sheets (2): White brick templates where children can colour in the bricks to match the colour patterns shown.
Brick Copying Pages (2): Colourful brick patterns for children to replicate by placing bricks or blocks directly on the template and / or colour in the template.
This resource supports learning about colour, pattern, and shape.
It’s ideal for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1), helping develop fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and pattern recognition through hands-on and creative activities.
3 different butterfly colour patterns for children to copy.
They could use a range of media such as felt pens, paint, collage or crayons.
Extend by asking children to make a colour butterfly pattern for their friends to copy.
Links to symmetry.
This is a great resource to put in pupil's individual TEACCH boxes or for independent tasks to consolidate matching, sequencing and following a pattern.
The flashcards are clear and uncluttered for maximum pupil focus.
They can be used with threading cubes to also promote and encourage fine motor skills.