Free Art & Design KS2 Teaching Resources for Primary Teachers

The National Curriculum for Art & Design

KS2 Art needs careful planning to ensure progression across the key stage. If planned carefully it is a wonderful opportunity to experiment with colour, pattern and  texture.  FableVision provides 4 good tracing activities so that KS2 children can gain tracing skills and also learn how to draw just from sight.

Art projects need to be challenging enough to keep older or more able pupils engaged, but inclusive enough for all children, including those who have different learning styles. Lesson plans can be devised with some of the free resources on this page to make them really engaging and fun, which is carefully mapped to the national curriculum and appeals equally to kinesthetic, visual and aural learners. Most of the resources on this page will have been developed with the UK national curriculum programme of study for art and design in mind, by a wide range of organisations and charities who are experts in their fields.

Planning Your KS2 Art and Design Lessons

Using the national curriculum as your starting point, your lessons then need to be tailored to the requirements of your pupils. You can use the resources on this page to inspire some new teaching ideas and approaches to familiar topics such as colour, pattern or historical and social contexts for Art and Design.  Try some new worksheets or online activities as starter activities or points for group discussions, or just to enrich your art projects. Art activities at key stage 2 can include colour, pattern, shape, form and space and working in two or three dimensions. Pupils should be learning to collate visual information, possibly in a sketchbook or scrapbook of some kind, and be getting to grips with tools and techniques that they can further utilise at secondary level.

Engage can help when planning trips to galleries for it provides informations on the closest galleries to you, their addresses and also which key stage they are appropriate for.