Visual Arts

September

Strands: Drawing;

Junior Infant & Senior Infants

Strands: Construction Drawing
Strand Units

Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit:
Differentiation: by learning
Clay Painting
objectives, outcome, grouping, pace,
Looking and Responding:

The child should be enable to

Experiment with the marks that can be made with different drawing
instruments on a range of surfaces

Wriggly, smudgy, gritty, very light, very dark, crayons, soft pencils,
chalks, textured papers
Exploring the mark-making possibilities of computer drawing tools .
JI

Drawing portrait of face

Directed drawing of Humpty Dumpty

Directed drawing of a hedgehog

Clay hedgehog with matchstick spines

Paint hedgehog

SI

Self-portrait ( whole body)

Drawing of my family

Clay Owl

Paint an Autumn tree, colour brown

The child should be enabled to

Look at and talk about his/her work, the
work of other children and the work of
artists.
Describing what is happening in the drawing
the different kinds of marks made how
he/she enjoyed making the drawing how the
artist might have worked his/her favourite
part.

Linkage and Integration:

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning
Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

teaching style, resource, task, support.

Assessment: Teacher observation;

Teacher designed tasks and tests; Work
samples, portfolios and projects; Curriculum
profiles; Diagnostic tests and Standardised
tests.

Resources:

Visual Arts

October

Junior & Senior Infants

Strands: Construction, Painting

Strands: Print;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit
Differentiation: by learning

Strand Units/Lessons:
JI

Collage- sticking orange paper in squares on Squirrels tail,

colour in body orange

Painting pumpkins, Halloween masks and spiders( made from

childrens hand prints, attach googly eyes and display hanging from
string)

Colour wheel

Drawing a spiders web on black paper with chalk, apply glue to

the web and decorate with glitter

Make a spiders body from egg cartons using pipe cleaners for
legs

Mixing the primary colours to make autumn colours

Use fingerprints and cotton buds to decorate tree with brown,
orange, yellow and red autumn leaves
Use fingerprints and cotton buds to decorate tree with brown,
orange, yellow and red autumn leaves
Experiment with colour- paint
Using black to make colour darker and observe changes
Using white to make colour lighter and observe changes
Make a Table Mat and Laminate- using painted strips of one
colour- lightened and darkened

Looking and Responding:

Look at and talk about examples of simple
print design in everyday use

Posters, wallpapers, fabrics with simple

repeat or other design, packaging, wrapping
paper.

Assessment: Teacher observation;

Teacher designed tasks and tests; Work
samples, portfolios and projects; Curriculum
profiles; Diagnostic tests and Standardised
tests.

Resources:
Linkage and Integration:

SI

objectives, outcome, grouping, pace,

teaching style, resource, task, support.

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning
Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

Visual Arts

November

Junior & Senior Infants

Strands: Paint & Colour

Strands: Paint & Colour;

Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit:
Differentiation: by learning

Strand Units/Lessons: Painting

Discover colour in the visual environment to help develop

sensitivity to colour.

Beginning to distinguish between lighter and darker colour.

Making paintings with a single colour and black and white

Discover colour, pattern and rhythm in colourful objects

Stones, flowers, colour magazine cut-outs, fabric scraps.

Experimenting in matching their colour in an elementary way.

Looking and Responding:

The child should be enabled to

Look at and talk about his/her work,

the work of other children and the
work of artists.

Describing what is happening in the

painting
The colours used to create lines, shapes
and light and dark areas
How he/she enjoyed making them

objectives, outcome, grouping, pace,

teaching style, resource, task, support.

Assessment: Teacher observation;

Teacher designed tasks and tests; Work

samples, portfolios and projects; Curricul
profiles; Diagnostic tests and Standardise
tests.

Resources:

How the artist might have used colour

JI

The Hungry Caterpillar-painting the segments

Select, draw and paint food from the Hungry Caterpillar

story

Draw your own scarecrow

His/her favourite part

Linkage and Integration:

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

SI

Paint your favourite food

Construct your own scarecrow using fabric and fibre for his
clothes

Still life of fruit bowl- directed drawing

Visual Arts

Strands: Drawing;

Paint & Colour;

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning

Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

Print;

Clay;

Construction;

Fabric and Fibre

Junior & Senior

Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Looking and Responding:
Differentiation: by learning
Strands: Print, paint and colour

objectives, outcome, grouping, pace,

teaching style, resource, task, support.

Strand Units/Lessons:
JI

cotton

Painting Christmas stocking and decorate with glitter and

wool( childs initial)
Christmas card
Handprint angels
Paper lantern-cut and colour same side

Assessment: Teacher observation;

Linkage and Integration:

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning

Teacher designed tasks and tests; Work

samples, portfolios and projects; Curricul
profiles; Diagnostic tests and Standardise
tests.

Resources:

SI

Printing pictures and patterns using Christmas sponge stamps

Directed drawing of Santa
Christmas card with greeting
3D angel

Visual Arts

January

Junior & Senior Infants

Strands: Fabric & Fibre

Collaborative learning, Problem solving

Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

Strand: Fabric and Fibre

Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit
Differentiation: by learning

Strand Units/Lessons: Creating in Fabric & Fibre

JI

Make simple collages of a kite using crepe paper

Directed Drawing- Noahs Ark

Draw outline of snowman on black paper and fill in with

cotton wool

Draw and colour a rainbow

Looking and Responding:

Fabric & Fibre

objectives, outcome, grouping,

pace, teaching style, resource, task,
support.

Look at and talk about his/her work and the

work of other children

Assessment: Teacher

Describing the piece of work

The colours used to create shapes,
textures, patterns.

observation; Teacher designed

tasks and tests; Work samples,
portfolios and projects; Curriculum
profiles; Diagnostic tests and
Standardised tests.

Resources:

How he/she enjoyed making it

What he/she likes best about the work.

SI

Umbrellas (using fabric and fibre) oil based cloth to give

waterproof effect
Winter pictures using chalk on black sugar paper
Paint a rainbow

Linkage and Integration:

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning
Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

Visual Arts

February

Junior & Senior Infants

Strands: Construction;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space

Strands: Construction, painting, drawing

Strand Units/Lessons:

JI

Draw and paint my favourite toy

Valentines card
Draw vase of spring flowers, i.e., tulip, daffodil and snowdrop
St. Brigids cross

SI

Construct my favourite toy using junk materials

Valentines card
Paint your favourite spring flower
St. Brigids cloak

CM

Strand Unit:
Looking and Responding:
The child should be enabled to
Look at, investigate and talk about spatial
arrangements and balance in collections of objects
and in photographs of natural and built structures
Dolls house, toy buildings, pop-up structures, birds
nests, model farms, simple furniture in the room,
cutlery trays
Strand construction
Looking and Responding
Strand Units
Look at and talk about structures that are easily
accessible and close at hand, at visually stimulating
structures and at a range of common artefacts
A public building, farm buildings
Deciding how many pieces were used to make a
table, a swing, a seesaw
Linkage and Integration:
Drawing: developing awareness of space through
drawing
Clay: discovering a sense of depth in space through
forming clay
Drama: making an imaginative play structure, using
space and objects.

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning
Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

Differentiation: by
learning objectives,
outcome, grouping, pace,
teaching style, resource,
task, support.

Assessment: Teacher
observation; Teacher
designed tasks and tests;
Work samples, portfolios
and projects; Curriculum
profiles; Diagnostic tests and
Standardised tests.

Resources:

Visual Arts

March

Junior & Senior Infants

Strands: Clay

Strands: Clay;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit
Differentiation: by learning

Strand Units/Lessons: Developing form in clay

Make a clay form and manipulate it with fingers to suggest a subject

Turning a ball of clay into an imaginary creature

Making a variety of real or imaginary animals
Experimenting with surface mark-making, texture and pattern
Talking about the marks made

JI

Mothers Day Art- Mothers day scroll ( hand print poem)

Looking and Responding:

Look at, handle and talk about his/her own
work, the work of other children and simple
pieces of clay pottery.
Describing the clay form
Materials and tools used
How he/she enjoyed manipulating the clay
How the craftsperson may have worked with
it
What he/she likes best about the clay form

card

St. Patricks Day headband

If Easter comes early follow directions below, if not
complete in April

JI-Clay Easter Egg decorations

JI+SI-Easter card

JI+SI-Paint eggs

Clay heart with ribbon (Mothers Day)

St. Patricks Day art- Shamrock Man

SI

Linkage and Integration:

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning
Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

objectives, outcome, grouping,

pace, teaching style, resource, task,
support.

Assessment: Teacher
observation; Teacher designed tasks
and tests; Work samples, portfolios
and projects; Curriculum profiles;
Diagnostic tests and Standardised
tests.

Resources:

Visual Arts

April

Junior/Senior Infants Year 1

Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and

rhythm/space

CM

JI

Draw and paint your favourite animal from Brown Bear

Spring lamb using cotton wool

Strand Unit
Looking and Responding:

Differentiation: by learning
objectives, outcome, grouping,
pace, teaching style, resource, task,
support.

Assessment: Teacher
Linkage and Integration:
SI

Directed drawing of a duck using Oil Pastels to colour in picture

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Directed drawing of Van Goghs Sunflowers

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning

Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

observation; Teacher designed tasks

and tests; Work samples, portfolios
and projects; Curriculum profiles;
Diagnostic tests and Standardised
tests.

Resources:

Visual Arts May

Junior/Senior Infants Year 1

Strands:

Paint & Colour;

Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and

rhythm/space

Strands: Painting
Strand Units/Lessons:
JI

Directed drawing of a house/garden

Summer frieze

Art for Our Lady

Draw a boat- directed drawing or childrens own interpretation

of boats- talk and discuss about parts of boat e.g. sail, anchor,
deck, - Link with water. Painting: Paint water/ waves on A4
paper- use different shades of blue- show children adding black
to blue for darker blue, and adding blue to white paint to make
blue lighter talk and discuss shades of blue. Cut out boat and
stick it onto painted waves/ water page- display

SI

Differentiation: by learning

CM
Strand Unit
Looking and Responding:

objectives, outcome, grouping,

pace, teaching style, resource, task,
support.

The child should be enabled to:

Look at and talk about his/her work, the
work of other children and the work of
artists
Describing what is happening in the painting
the colours used to create lines, shapes and
light and dark areas
How he/she enjoyed making them
How the artist might have used colour
His/her favourite part.

Assessment: Teacher

Linkage and Integration:

observation; Teacher designed tasks

and tests; Work samples, portfolios
and projects; Curriculum profiles;
Diagnostic tests and Standardised
tests.

Resources:

Summer frieze

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning
Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

Visual Arts

June

Junior/Senior Infants
Strands:

Strands: Drawing;

Paint & Colour;

Print;

Clay;

Construction;

Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Looking and Responding:
Differentiation: by
learning objectives, outcome,
grouping, pace, teaching style,
resource, task, support.

Strand Units/Lessons:
JI

Rainbow Fish-using oil pastels

Draw summer flowers, i.e. rose, poppy,daisy and buttercup

Fathers Day card

Linkage and Integration:

Methodologies: Talk and discussion

Active learning, Guided and discovery learning
Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment
Looking and responding, Use of ICT

SI

Fabric and Fibre

Fathers Day Card

Seascape including characters from selected summer stories

Assessment: Teacher
observation; Teacher designed
tasks and tests; Work samples,
portfolios and projects;
Curriculum profiles;
Diagnostic tests and
Standardised tests.

Resources:

Summer Flowers

Arts Days