Year 2 Art - Shading & tone

Looking for a ready-to-teach art lesson that helps pupils develop shading skills and understand tone? This complete Shading and Tone pack provides everything you need to deliver a clear, engaging lesson with ease.

What’s Included:
Teaching slides
Printable resources
Differentiated worksheets:
HA (blue) - Challenge and extension
MA (green) - Core learning
LA (yellow) - Scaffolded support
SEND (pink) - Accessible and inclusive

The lesson focuses on helping pupils explore how to create light and dark tones using a range of pencils and simple shading techniques.

Success Criteria:

• Use different pressure to create light and dark marks
• Apply shading techniques such as hatching
• Choose appropriate pencils to achieve different effects

Outcome:
Pupils create a shaded drawing that clearly shows light and dark areas.

Teachers love this resource because it is completely zero-prep, fully differentiated to support all abilities, and designed to build essential shading and drawing skills in an engaging and accessible way. It is ideal for observations, developing technique, or strengthening pupil’s understanding of tone in art.