Year 1 Art Lesson Plans

Celebrate Christmas in your classroom with these colourful festive artworks. Explore printmaking, clay, collage and mixed media artworks in this unit all about Christmas to get you ready for the festive season!

Embrace summer and winter with these creative art lesson pans for Kinder to year 6. Be inspired by artist Bruce Earles to create a stunning Day at the Beach or learn how to print a sun mandala inspired by the Aztecs and so much more... 

Create amazing buildings in this fun unit with art lesson plans inspired by architecture. There are exciting drawing, painting, collage and printmaking projects to create, inspired by Paul Klee and Dr Seuss. There's a city skyline to draw and paint and a collagraph house printmaking project to try. 

Spring, Autumn or Fall art lesson plans to celebrate the new season! Use colour to create vibrant artworks with a Spring, Autumn or Fall theme. 

Explore Art from South East Asia with a range of exciting lesson plans. Try out different art materials and techniques including painting, drawing and fibre textile projects. 

Students will have fun creating a range of Arctic and Antarctic themed artworks. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different projects from the coldest regions on Earth to life! In this unit, we'll use collage, painting, drawing,  printmaking, mixed media and craft, whilst having fun learnng aobut the farthest reaches of the planet. 

Students will have fun creating a range of fish themed artworks. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different fish projects to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, drawing, clay, mixed media and textile, whilst having fun in the watery realm. 

More About ME art lesson plans! In this unit many of the art lessons are based on self portraits and individualised projects where each student can focus on the self. Try colourful portrait projects inspired by Sandra Silberzweig and Romero Britto.

Explore Art from Australia with a range of exciting lesson plans. Try out different art materials and techniques including painted paper collage inspired by Pete Cromer, drawing, mixed media and painting.

Have fun with clay! Create and make relief and 3D clay projects with a clay turtle, starry night mobile and sheep to create. Learn how to make an animal relief clay plaque and an enchanting bobble head dragon. To really refine those clay skills, there is also a layered terrarium to make with textured plant details to inspire your class.

Explore Australian Aboriginal Artists and their culture in this second unit of colourful art lesson plans. We will use a range of materials and techniques including painted paper collage, drawing, clay and painting.

Explore Women Artists with these colourful art lesson plans. Your students can discover the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama and Faith Ringgold in these lesson plans. Create artworks inspired by pop artist Corita Kent and contemporary artist Jane Donaldson. 

Students will have fun creating a range of African animal artworks. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different African animals to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, ink drawing,  and printmaking, whilst having fun in the African savannah. 

Learn all about colour with monsters to create, sneakers to design and colour mixing artworks to create.  Learn about the art of abstract trailblazer Sonia Delauney and contemporary artist, Janet Skates whose works are both based on colour and contrast.

Children love their pets and we have a whole unit that explores this special connection. Creatures of all shapes and sizes, cuddly, scaled and slimy delight children and also offer a special kind of companionship.

Explore UK artists with these colourful art lesson plans. Your students can discover the art of designers Orla Kiely and William Morris, create works inspired by Eric Carle,  David Hockney and Simon Wiltshire in this quintessentially UK art unit. We will use a range of materials and techniques including collage, printmaking, watercolour painting, drawing, mixed media and painting. 

Students will have fun creating a range of farm animal artworks, some are inspired by artists Jean Dubuffet and Pablo Picasso. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different farm animals to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, drawing, clay and printmaking, whilst having all the fun at the farm. 

Explore US artists with these colourful art lessons. Your students can discover pop art, modernism, neo-expressionism, abstract and folk art all in this American dream of a unit. We will use a range of materials and techniques including collage, watercolour painting, mono-printing, mixed media and painting. 

Wellbeing art lesson plans! In this unit the art lessons are based on increasing your students wellbeing and knowledge of self. We  look at emotions and positive thoughts while practising mindfulness by focusing on the present. 

Have fun learning about owls, a bird of prey symbolising wisdom and found in nearly every environment on Earth. They are charismatic birds of prey and in folklore, a symbol of wisdom and intuition.