This Art and design video supports teachers in introducing the concepts of positive and negative space to help learners explore abstraction in sculpture. These drawings inform their sculpture plans for the next lesson.
year: Stage 3
Learner video: Joining shapes
This Art and design video introduces learners to cardboard joining techniques for building abstract 3D structures. It encourages experimentation, problem-solving and collaboration to create strong, stable forms.
Teacher video: Techniques for joining shapes
Learner video: 3D structures
This Art and design video guides learners in transforming flat 2D shapes into 3D sculptures using folding, rolling and slotting techniques. It encourages hands-on experimentation with balance and connections to create imaginative forms.
Teacher video: Art in 3D
This Art and design video supports teachers in introducing learners to sculpture by guiding them through the process of transforming 2D shapes into 3D structures. Learners manipulate card by folding, rolling and slotting shapes together to build freestanding forms without glue or tape.
Learner video: Hands on a cave wall
This Art and Design video teaches learners to create a collaborative prehistoric-style artwork using handprints. They make a textured background with earthy colours before working in pairs to explore positive and negative handprint techniques inspired by ancient art.
Teacher video: Hands on a cave wall
This Art and design video supports teachers in helping learners create a collaborative cave wall artwork using positive and negative handprints. It explains how to prepare a textured background, demonstrates printing techniques and encourages full-class participation inspired by prehistoric examples.
Learner video: Painting on the cave wall
This Art and design video guides learners through the process of creating a prehistoric-style painting on a textured cave wall background. Pupils begin by redrawing their animal using a black crayon, then mix and apply colours inspired by natural pigments such as red ochre, burnt umber and charcoal. They practise painting in one direction, applying colour smoothly, and adding patterns or fur textures to bring their animal to life.
This video is part of Kapow’s Art and design resources, which support the Cambridge Primary Art & Design framework. As part of the Prehistoric painting unit, this lesson helps children develop control of painting techniques and use colour expressively.
Teacher video: Painting on the cave wall
This Art and design video explains how to guide children in creating prehistoric-style animal paintings on their textured cave wall backgrounds. It demonstrates how to copy animal sketches in crayon, mix a Stone Age-inspired colour palette and paint smoothly to add patterns and detail.