These lessons are aimed towards students at the Stage 1 (Years 1-2) level of education.
In each of the lessons below, you will find links to download each PDF lesson plan with its associated resources as a complete pack (click on ‘Download Full Lesson Plan’), or just the individual resources themselves (under ‘Lesson Resources’).
Lesson Overview
Throughout this lesson, students will create an artwork that doubles as a sensory tool. Students will produce a “Squishy Ball” that can be used to hold, fidget with, smell and manipulate. This sensory tool is great to help with focus, calming, grounding and distraction.
» Download Full Lesson PlanLesson Outcomes
A student will learn to:
- think about how they can work in similar ways to artists in their making of artworks
- explore different kinds of subject matter and concepts in their making of artwork
- take into account various factors when talking about art (eg details within an artwork, what the work is about and what the artist has done)
- practice strategies they can use to support their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing
- identify and participate in opportunities that promote healthy decisions
- describe feelings, reactions and warning signs that can help them recognise safe or unsafe situations, e.g. excitement, feeling anxious, fear.
A student will learn about:
- how artists make artwork for different reasons
- the diversity of kinds of things that are made as art (eg paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs).
Lesson Resources
- Stage-1-Squishy-Ball-Teacher-Guide.pdf
- Stage-1-Learning-Intentions.pdf
- Senses-Memory-Game.pdf
- Stage-1-Sensory-Tools-Toolkit.pdf
- Stage-1-Sensory-Session-Toolkit-Fact-Sheet.pdf
- Stage-1-An-Artist.pdf
- Stage-1-Squishy-Ball-Planning-Sheet.pdf
- Stage-1-Squishy-Ball-Instructions.pdf
- Stage-1-Squishy-Ball-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
- Differentiated-Stage-1-Squishy-Ball-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
Lesson Overview
Throughout this lesson, students will create an artwork that doubles as a sensory tool. Students will produce a “Desk Fidget Tool” that can be used to hold, fidget with, and refocus attention to create calm. This sensory tool is great for focus, calming, grounding and distraction.
» Download Full Lesson PlanLesson Outcomes
A student will learn to:
● think about how they can work in similar ways to artists in their making of artworks
● explore different kinds of subject matter and concepts in their making of artworks
● take into account various factors when talking about art (e.g. details within an artwork, what the work is about and what the artist has done)
● practise strategies they can use to support their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing
● identify and participate in opportunities that promote healthy decisions
● describe feelings, reactions and warning signs that can help them recognise safe or unsafe situations, e.g. excitement, feeling anxious, fear.
Lesson Resources
- Stage-1-Learning-Intentions-1.pdf
- Senses-Memory-Game-1.pdf
- Stage-1-Sensory-Tools-Toolkit-1.pdf
- Stage-1-Sensory-Session-Toolkit-Fact-Sheet-1.pdf
- Stage-1-An-Artist-1.pdf
- Stage-1-Desk-Fidget-Tool-Planning-Sheet.pdf
- Stage-1-Desk-Fidget-Tool-Instructions.pdf
- Stage-1-Desk-Fidget-Tool-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
- Stage-1-Desk-Fidget-Tool-Teacher-Guide.pdf
- Stage-1-Differentiated-Desk-Fidget-Tool-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
