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Let's Paint Water

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Awareness Days World Water Day

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Objectives

Art and Design

  • Learn about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines and making links to their own work.
  • Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

Lesson Planning

Consider the power of water, the attractiveness of the sea, the delight of paddling or swimming in the sea during a seaside holiday and being in a boat on the sea.

Children will:

  • Learn about the artist Hokusai.
  • Create an interpretation of Hokusi’s ‘Great Wave’ drawing on their own experiences of the sea/ocean.

You Will Need

  • The Great Wave: A Children's Book Inspired by Hokusai’ by Veronique Massenot, Bruno Pilorget
  • Images of The Great Wave
  • Art media materials, as available
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