Teacher video: Exploring shape

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 video is part of Kapow’s Art and design resources, which support the Cambridge Primary Art & Design framework. It helps teachers feel confident in leading open-ended, creativity-driven tasks that build foundational drawing and observation skills. Through playful experimentation with line and shape, this unit develops children’s ability to see connections, express their ideas visually, and begin to explore early shading techniques through colouring.

Art and design, Stage 1, Lesson 3, Teacher video: Exploring shape