I introduced the students to some collages of snails by Clare Youngs, a designer and illustrator from the UK. We discussed how she might have made her artworks and the colours and shapes used.
For our activity, students chose a colour scheme of three colours: warm, cool, primary or secondary colours. They used those colours to made painted papers. The following lesson they cut out the shapes and added patterns to some of them. They then assembled the pieces.
On the back of a larger piece of painted paper I drew/ traced a spiral shape for the children to cut out, along with a ‘foot’ and ‘head’ in the other colour.
To make the lesson more streamlined, I have made templates with the shapes needed to be printed out then painted on the reverse. There is also a demonstration video to show the steps in the lesson plan below. It will help make the lesson run smoothly and the process easy to follow.
This lesson plan includes discussion questions with a display page, success criteria for each lesson step, templates to print and paint on reverse, ready for cutting out the pieces needed to make the snail, link to a video demonstrating the process of painting and putting the snail together, a pattern ideas sheet, and a reflection sheet for students to identify colours, shapes and patterns used.
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