This unit suggests ideas for looking at visual and formal elements used in the production of images and artefacts. It is aimed at 4-7 year olds and offers ways in which teachers can develop children's awareness of line, colour, pattern, form, tone, shape, texture and space.
Like written language art and design has a basic vocabulary which consists of visual and tactile elements, for example:
line, colour, pattern, form, tone, shape, texture, space.
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This unit is a basic introduction to making repeat patterns using print. Children are encouraged to look for examples of patterns in the natural and man…
This simple unit is designed to show young children, in a very direct way, that colours mix.
Heightening young children's awareness of shape
This unit will explore line, drawing, movement, emotion, feeling, expression