Book illustrations: old and new

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Toys and Books

Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Learn about changes in living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Art and Design

  • Develop a wide range of art techs in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
  • Learn about the work of a range of artists describing the differences and similarities between different practices and making links to own work.

Lesson Planning

Children explore the illustrations in children’s books and how these have changed in style and content over the last 50 years. They replicate the style of a current illustrator.

Teaching Outcomes
To explore photographs of museum toy artefacts and identify whether they are old or new.
To use digital equipment to take photographs.
To write labels to accompany a photograph of a toy.

Children will:

  • Explore illustrations from children’s books over time, looking at trends and techniques.
  • Study a contemporary illustrator and attempt to replicate his or her style for a group story about a lost toy.

Provided Resources

  • Images of illustrations from different eras
  • Story scenes for a lost toy story

You Will Need

  • Wallpaper
  • Fabrics
  • Toy photos