This Art and design video demonstrates how learners create their own version of papyrus paper, the first step in producing their Ancient Egyptian scroll. Using brown paper, PVA glue and a layering technique, learners make sheets by overlapping vertical and horizontal strips to replicate the texture of papyrus.
Subject: Art and design
Learner video: Designing scrolls
This Art and design video demonstrates how to design an Ancient Egyptian scroll inspired by traditional imagery and colour. The activity encourages learners to use sketchbooks to explore ideas experiment with patterns and plan a scroll that tells a story through visual composition.
Teacher video: Designing scrolls
This Art and design video explores how learners can design their own scroll artwork inspired by Ancient Egyptian art. Using a class design brief, learners plan their scrolls by sketching and experimenting with colours, patterns and images in their visual journals. The video encourages idea generation, creative exploration and thoughtful composition to prepare for making their final scroll pieces.
Learner video: Ancient Egyptian art
This Art and design video demonstrates how to explore Ancient Egyptian art through creative visual journal work. The activity encourages learners to prepare pages using techniques like tea staining and colour washing then recreate Egyptian imagery with drawing materials to build observation and creative confidence.
Teacher video: Ancient Egyptian art
This Art and design video introduces learners to Ancient Egyptian art and guides them in exploring its patterns, shapes and colours. Children experiment with creating textured or coloured backgrounds using techniques like tea-staining or paper collage. They then draw Egyptian-inspired imagery and decorative motifs onto their prepared surfaces, focusing on observation, mark-making and creative responses rather than completing a finished picture.
Learner video: Finished sculptures
This Art and design video shows learners how to complete their abstract sculptures by adding surface decoration. The activity encourages reflection, experimentation with texture and colour and creative decisions about materials and display.
Teacher video: Surface decoration
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through the process of completing their abstract sculptures with surface decoration. Learners reflect on their finished work and explore how texture and colour can enhance their designs. They compare the work of two sculptors, consider how their sculptures are displayed and experienced from different viewpoints and experiment with paint and materials like paper or fabric to unify or contrast different elements.
Learner video: Large-scale sculpture
This Art and design video supports learners in making collaborative abstract sculptures using card and simple joining methods. Learners use their sketchbook plans as a starting point, then shape, balance and assemble materials into freestanding forms. The activity encourages teamwork, creative problem-solving and spatial awareness.
Teacher video: Creating sculpture
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through the process of constructing collaborative abstract sculptures using card and mixed media. Learners are encouraged to adapt their visual journal plans as they problem solve, experiment with scale and structure and explore a variety of joining techniques to create freestanding forms.