This Art and design video introduces learners to the idea of building portraits using simple shapes, helping them observe facial features in a new and creative way. Inspired by Paul Klee’s artwork Senecio, children are encouraged to look closely at a face and identify shapes like circles, triangles, rectangles and organic forms to represent each part.

This Art and design video supports teachers in delivering a lesson that combines the formal elements of line and shape through the creation of abstract portraits. It guides teachers in helping children work directly onto printed images of faces, making creative decisions about how to represent each part using geometric forms.

This Art and design video supports teachers in delivering a lesson focused on connecting lines to form shapes, encouraging children to explore both geometric and organic forms. It helps learners recognise familiar shapes such as circles, triangles and rectangles in different orientations, while introducing the term ‘organic’ to describe freeform, irregular shapes. The video guides teachers in modelling how different types of lines, for example straight, curved, wavy or dashed, can be used to create a wide variety of shapes.

This Art and design video supports teachers in delivering a lesson that explores the relationship between music and mark making, helping children respond to sound through drawing. It builds on prior learning about line, control and pressure, while encouraging the use of varied drawing materials. The video introduces the artist Paul Klee, whose playful and expressive work demonstrates how music can influence line, shape and colour in imaginative ways.

This Art and design video introduces learners to the concept of line, encouraging them to explore how different types of lines, such as straight, wavy, curved or zigzag, can be created using a variety of drawing materials. It prompts learners to experiment with control by holding tools in different ways and using the tip, edge or side of the material.

This Art and design video supports teachers in delivering a lesson on line-making techniques. Designed for Stage 1 learners, the video helps you introduce children to the expressive potential of line through control and pressure, using a range of drawing materials such as colouring pencils, chalks, oil pastels and charcoal.