Children aged 4 to 11

Adapting AccessArt: Stories and Faces

Playing With Perspective

Cooking With Collage

Adapting AccessArt: Colour and Composition

What I Ate in a Day

Adapting AccessArt: From 2D to 3D

Adapting AccessArt: Pattern and Colour

Ice Worlds

Clay Pens

Adapting AccessArt: Stone Age Clay Play

Our Creative Community: Funding our Trip to YSP

Our Creative Community: Finding Exhibitions Near You

Our Creative Community: Curating an Exhibition Part One

Our Creative Community: Curating an Exhibition Part Two

Our Creative Community: Tips for Organising an Exhibition Setting

Our Creative Community: Plates Inspired by Janine Burrows

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part One

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part Two

Our Creative Community: The Island: A Thinking Skills Workshop

Our Creative Community: Top Tips for Facilitating an Island Thinking Workshop

Our Creative Community: Preparing Screens

Our Creative Community: Yorkshire Sculpture Park Visit

Mobile Construction Methods

Adapting AccessArt: Playful Making Inspired by Nnena Kalu

Exploring Scale with Green Screen

Painting on Screen

Working in a Studio

Adapting AccessArt: Making Birds Pathway for Pupils With Special Educational Needs

Adapting AccessArt: Woodland Creatures

Cloth, Paint, Print: Inspired by Natural Objects

Expressive Charcoal Collage: Coal Mines

Coat-hanger Shells

Deconstructing to Help You See

Introduction to Ink

Imaginary Landscapes

Collecting, Arranging, Drawing

Modelling Monsters

Fruit and Veg Head

Introduction to Colour Pencils

Talking Points: Paddington Bear

Insect Hotels

Top Tips for Cardboard Creations

Session Recording: Expressive Painting

Concertina Landscapes

Finding Circles

Introduction to Chalk Pastels

Collecting Colour in my Moodboard Book

Collecting Colour

How Colour Collection Inspires My Work

Escaping Wars and Waves – Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Analogue Drawing

Drawing With Your Feet

Drawing with Sticks

Session Recording: Exploring Line Weight

Session Recording: Exploring Charcoal

Session Recording: Finding Marks Made by Artists

Sculptural Environments Inspired by Hockney

Making 2d & 3d Fashion Designs with Painted and Decorated Paper

Making Painted & Sewn Landscapes

Using Sketchbooks to Make Visual Notes

Making a Treehouse

Experimental Mark Making Tools

Mixed Media Landscape Challenges

A Visual Poetry Zine with Monotype

Print Foam – Making Relief Prints: Incised & Additive

Expressive Painting & Colour Mixing

Osakana

Paint Your Corner Shop

Making Sculptural Birds

Trace Monotype

Light-field Monotype

Light-field Monotype with Acrylic Paint

Dark-Field Monotype: Masking

Dark-field Monotype

Cut Out Typography

Screen Printing In The Classroom

What Is Sculpture?

To The Thames Barrier And Beyond

Workshop Season in Review

Introduction to Charcoal

Green Thumbs

Exploring, Associating & Connecting – a Sketchbook Exercise

Home Made Inks

How I Use Sketchbooks & Drawing

Kitchen Lithography

The AccessArt Drawing Journey for Primary Children: Aims and Intent

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for ages 5 to 7

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for ages 7 to 9

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for ages 5 to 7

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for Ages 7 to 9

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for Ages 9 to 11

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for Ages 9 to 11

What Is A Drawing Tool?

How Do We Look At Contemporary Sculpture: Meg Klosterman

Making is Hard

What Is The Purpose of Drawing?

What Is Drawing?

Creating Repeat Patterns With Rachel Parker

AccessArt’s Prompt Cards for Making

Still Life Compositions: Inspired by Cezanne

Remembrance Day Peg Soldiers

The Transformation Project

Download an Editable Version of the AccessArt Progression Plan

Turkish Map Fold

World War I Mail Art

Which Artists: Claire Harrup

Which Artists: Ava Jolliffe

Which Artists: 2B or Not 2B

Sketchbook Journey At Haslingfield Primary School

Creativity Medals

Making Musical Instruments

Touch Wood

Which Artists: Su Blackwell

Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings

Working with Dogwood

Which Artists: Toby Pritchard

Dropped Cone Sculptures with Julia Rigby

Portrait Club

Which Artists: We are out of office

Gabby Savage-Dickson: Etching

Gabby Savage-Dickson: Felting & Embroidering Sets

Rosie Hurley: Esio Trot

Natsko Seki: Making Broadway Market

Connecting With Nature Through Art

Lino Printing Inspired by Gestural Drawings

Anthotype Photography: Plant-Based Photography Without a Camera

Movement Maps

Redesigning Food Packaging

Creating Comics Inspired by Museum Collections

Printmaking using Packaging

Roots & Shoots: A Sculptural Challenge

Finding Marks Through Drawings Made by Artists

Personalising a Sketchbook with Mark Making and Collage

Using a Found Book for a Sketchbook

Making Spaces & Places in a Sketchbook

Making a Simple Folded Sketchbook

Making a Hole Punch Sketchbook

Making a Backwards Sketchbook

Water Soluble Felt-Tips With Complementary Colours

DrawAble: Creating a Poetry Comic with Irina Richards

Art Club Cafe

Mark Making & Sound: Part Three

Mark Making & Sound: Part Two

Mark Making & Sound: Part One

AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards

Introduction To Forest Of Imagination

You And Me Make Tree

Making a Scroll Drawing

Looking for Hope in the Small Things

One Roll of Paper, Two Activities

Get Connected! Cardboard Robots with Movable Joints

Draw your Granny and Grandpa or Any Relative You Love!

Be Inspired by Flowers in a Glass Vase by Jan Davidsz de Heem

Drawing Large

Inspired! Making at Linton Heights Junior School

Mono Printing Session with ‘Change, Grow, Live’

Rainbows and Waves for Grey Days

Drawing Small

Printed Houses

Inspired! Re-Creating Cupid and Psyche in Mixed Media by Year Fives at Linton Heights

Inspire 2020: Introducing Colour and Egg Tempera on a Gesso Panel

A Progression Pathway in Clay Work

Inspired! Psyche’s Resilience by The Fitzy Peters

Life Drawing Class: Visual Impressions

Inspired! ‘The Tree’ by Year One and Two at Hauxton Primary School

Walking and Drawing

Cupid and Psyche: How a Fifteenth-Century Renaissance Panel Became the Most Loved Painting in Cambridgeshire

The Story of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio (1442 – 1493)  

Mini World Light Boxes

Painted Clay

Abstract Face – Relief Sculptures

Anthropomorphic Animal Paintings

Nib & Ink Mark Making Still Life

Decorative Clay Coil Pots

‘Painting’ with Plasticine

Clay Art Medals

Burton Hathow Ducklings

The Wildflower Meadow

Clay ‘Portrait’ Miniatures

David Parr House – “What’s Your Space?”

Painting A Rainbow Forest

Simple Animation: Making a Flick Book

Santa comes in all Shapes and Sizes: Yr 3 Make Bouncing Santas!

All That Glitters…

Clay Moulds

Japanese Sushi Inspires Our Art

Japan – Ceramics Inspire Painting and Painting Inspires Ceramics

Spotting Potential and Nurturing a Young Talent

Japan: Making Sushi – Recycled Style!

Three Approaches to Drawing

Use Scrapstores!

Exploring Colour with Hester Berry

Teaching Children to See Shapes Objectively by Hester Berry

Introduction to Portraits by Hester Berry

Introduction to ‘Tone’ by Hester Berry

7 & 8 Year Olds Explore MonoPrinting & Oil Painting

Making Papier-Mache Marionette Puppets Inspired by Characters in a Historical Painting

Pop-Up Puppets Inspired by a Historical Painting

Teaching Art to Year Three by Jan Miller: Collection Page

Drawing with Scissors: Screen Printing Workshop in 3 Stages, Inspired by Matisse

A Year of Art Lessons with Year 3 – Introduction

Withy Butterflies

Inspired by Edgar Degas: Printmaking, Drawing & Sculpture at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt

Making Sculpture Inspired by Degas

How to Make Beautiful, Liquid Drawings Inspired by Degas

Making Monotypes Inspired by Degas

Colour Wheel for Infants and Juniors

Primal Painting

Sculpture from Sculpture

#BeACreativeProducer Workshop with Primary-Aged Children

Making Sculptural “Wild Things” (Session 2 & 3)

Making Sculptural “Wild Things” (Session 1)

Drawing our own “Wild Things” to Inhabit our Imagined Landscape

Life Drawing Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are”

Adding Colour to Shared Ink Drawing Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are”

Shared Ink Drawing Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are”

To Construct…

Fruit-Inspired Clay Tiles

Fruit Pinch Pot Project

Handle with Care! Why Teaching Art to Primary School Children is Still Important

Making Worry Dolls

Roseate Spoonbill Mixed Media Project

Exploring Primary Colours and Progressing from Powder Paint to Gouache and Acrylic

Animating Old Books

Year 3 Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake Homework

To Colour….

One Material: Sea Sculptures from Plastic Bottles

Exploring the Sculptural Possibilities of Plastic Milk Bottles

Drawing Soft Toys Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak

Sensory Spaces: An Autism-Friendly Project

To Conceal….

The Winter Tree Challenge: A Combined Sculpture & Drawing Project!

Making an Ink and Wax Village with Pupils in Mansfield

Explore and Draw

Show Me What You See: Drawing Inspired by Anglo Saxon Architecture

Sculptures with Personality, Inspired by Anglo Saxon Houses

To Connect…

Making a Lyre Inspired by the Ancient Greeks

Wax Resist Autumn Leaves by Rosie James

Sculpture Project Inspired by Egyptian Wall Painting

Making a Pocket Gallery

Continuous Line Drawing Exercise

Style and Aesthetic

Balancing Observational & Experimental Drawing

Teaching for the Journey not the Outcome

Layered Landscapes: Working in Mixed Media on Location with Kittie Jones

Fabulous Fish

Wave Bowls

Collagraphs Inspired by Architecture

Ink & Foamboard Architecture

Under the Ocean Mirrors

Making Shells

Graphic Inky Still Life!

Making Boats that Float Out of Everyday Materials

Self Portrait in Acrylic

The Geometry of Chickens!

Graphite Sketches of Artist Retreats

Using Colour to Develop Gestural Drawing

Backwards Forwards Drawing Exercise

The Anatomy of a Pencil

Animated Walk Cycle

Conquering SATs Stress with Seats

Exploring Casting with Latex Animal Moulds

Quick Guide to Mixing Plaster

Animating with Charcoal

Decorative Eggs

World in a Matchbox

Making Finger Puppets

Visual Arts Planning: Exploring Line

Making Elastic Band Sketchbooks with Pupils at Philip Southcote School

Mayan Tabletop Eraser Printing Project

Make a Stitched Drawing of a House in an Hour

Making Paper Masks for Carnival and Mardi Gras

InSET Day at Welland Academy: Exploring Printmaking Processes

Aluminium Foil Printing by Paul Carney

“Plasticine Models & Decorated Plinths ” Inspired by the Book ‘Dirty Beasts’ by Roald Dahl & illustrated by Quentin Blake

Sketchbook Exercise: Drawing Brushes with Charcoal

Make a Model Stitched House

Collage and Construction

What is a Canvas? Exploration Activity

Making Felt Sailing Boats by Ruth Purdy

Building and Drawing

Feeling Our Way Around Wool

Marbling for Surface Design by Ruth Purdy

Early Primary Sketchbook Exploration

Doodling with Stuff

Collagraph, Collage and Stitch: Make a Image of Your Home on Fabric

The August Creative Challenge Gallery – Week Four

Drawing with a Ruler

Supersized Jewellery

Developing Sketchbook Work with Pink Pig Sketchbooks

Join Us for an August Creative Challenge!

Tie Dye

Draw your Home: Collage, Stitch and Fabric Crayons

Take a Seat Gallery

Brushes, Rollers and Dabbers – Year 4 Pupils Use Mixed Media to Make Mark Making Tools

Our River – Year Five Pupils Build a Communal Drawing in Four Steps

Making Large Scale, Screenprinted, Collaged, Co-Created Campaign Posters!

Shadow Puppets and Whiteboards

Year Three Pupils Explore Stencils, Composition and Expressive Mark Making with Oil Pastels

Printing processes that use everyday materials to develop a creative focus for anyone, anywhere By Ruth Purdy

Doppleganger Drawing

Drawing for Science, Invention & Discovery Even If You Can’t Draw by Paul Carney

Visualisation Drawing

Adaptation Drawing

Trial and Error Drawing

Methodical Drawing

Serendipity Drawing

Simple Easter Sketchbook

Perseverance, Determination and Inventiveness: Building Nests

Playing with tape, projectors, Wicky Sticks and so much more!

Astronaut Paper Body Casts by Gillian Adair McFarland

Barbie & Ken Transformation

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week One

Long Legged Animals by Years 3 & 4 Making Club

Shipwrecked! A Shadow Puppet Play by Children Aged 10

Paperback Figures: Collaged, Relief Sculptures

3D Drawing with Paper: Texture – Surface – Structure

Years 3 and 4 D&T and Making Club

40 Minute Cardboard and Double-Sided Sticky Tape Engineering Challenge

Paper Pigeon Project

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animating Articulated Beasts

Painting the Light and the Dark…

Show Me The Shadows

Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra) Op.61: Images Inspired by Music

How to Make a Simple Origami Bird by Melanie Johns

‘Birds in the Trees’ by Pupils at Battyeford Primary School

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Articulated Beasts

“Flock” at Prospect House School, Inspired by Veronica Lindsay-Addy

Printing at Battyeford Primary, Inspired by Hester Cox

Illustrating ‘The Jabberwocky’

Paint, Colour and Autobiographical Imagery

My House – A Cardboard Construction Project

Exploration of Watercolour in the Studio

Introduction to Watercolour

Exploring Watercolour at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt

Autobiographical Suitcase Pop-Up Gallery

‘Dawn Chorus’ by Marcus Coates

Brave Young Makers: Year Three Pupils at Ridgefield Primary Transform Materials into Birds and Insects

Making a RollerCoaster by Julia Rigby

Priscilla the Puffin: Make a Simple Bird Mobile

Colourful Sculptural Birds by Pupils at Donhead Preparatory School

Pattern and Collage: A Whole School Workshop at Monkfield Primary School

Transformation Project: Cardboard and….

Making Sea Sculptures at Culford School, Suffolk

Making a Scarecrow Out of Moss

Inspired by Joseph Cornell: Making a Decorative Aviary Box

Painting the Storm, at Bourn Primary Academy

Printmaking with Salvaged Sticky Back Aluminium Foil, Mixed Media and Cardboard

Rook – Transforming Materials

Chimera Drawings into Beautiful Terracotta Tiles

Wax Resist with Coloured Inks and Sgraffito on Foamboard

Chimera – A Drawing Workshop with Eleanor Somerset

Manipulating Paper: Turning 2D into 3D

Plinth People: Sculptural Self Portraits

Teenagers Make Small Sculptures: Exploring Felt-Making and Transforming Materials

Paper Sculptures: Dipping Objects in Paper Pulp

Dragons & Birds in Eggs: Hidden and Revealed

Inspired by Google Earth: Making

Exploring Materials: Merino Wool and Water and Making Felt

Printing Patterns on Jewellery Pieces

Inspired by Google Earth: Drawing

Flat Yet Sculptural? Drawing, Collage, Construction

Exploring Three Dimensions with Lego: Drawing and Collage

The Friendship Tower by Rachel Scanlon

Transformation Project: Snippets of Inspiration

Using Negative Space to Believe What You See ( & Scaling Up)

How to Make a Tessellated Design

The Drawing Machine – A Workshop in Perspective and How to Look by Drawing Machine and Sarah Wright

Constructed Space by Anne Harild

Making Plaster Reliefs

Drawing as Support Activity

Making Drawings using a Lightbox

Literacy Boost Project: James & the Giant Peach Garden by Cordelia Spalding

Building Stories by June Nelson

Painting on Glass

Shoe La-la Project by Lala Thorpe

Shrinkle Spaces

Page to Panel – How to Make Manga by Irina Richards

Creating Decorative Designs From Birds: Mark Making, Texture and Pattern by Andrea Butler

Quick Clay Figurative Sketches

From Drawing to Collage to Casting – Mural Design with Primary Schools

Cut Paper Collage Still Life

Drypoint Etching

Creating and Drawing an Art Installation

How to Cast – Simple, Two Piece Casting Using Clay & Plaster

Nest

Drawing Hands

Rosemary Cronin: Memory Mining and Drawing on Dreams

Working Collaboratively in School: Cell Design by Karen Wicks

Making a Monogram

Ann Bridges – Poetry and Printmaking

3-D Visual Maps for Children

Typography for Children

Inspired by Miro – Collage, Automatic Drawing, & Sculpture

Year 4 Sculpture Project (ages 8 and 9)

Woodland Exploration by Caroline Wendling & Deborah Wilenski

Improving Drawing Outcomes by Changing Paper

Why use Warm Up Drawing Exercises?

Post Office by Rosalie Schweiker: An Interactive Community Art Project

Hedgerow Art by Sara Dudman

Self Portraiture Photography by Anna Linch

Exploring Cyanotype by Maru Rojas

Drawing with Wire: The Polymeric Approach by Julie de Bastion

Drawing on Pebbles to Make Treasured Fossils

Using Pastels to Capture Texture

Printmaking in the Primary National Curriculum

Sculptural Pots

Scraperboard Woodcut Lookalikes

Thinking and Making

Bad Cat: Inspiration for Art Week

“Light Bulb Art” with Sharon Gale

Drawing Materials Sample Cards

Found Poetry

Painting on Plaster, Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh

How does the Sculpture Balance?

Layered Colour Gestural Drawing

Colour Composition and Ben Nicholson

Cardboard Sculptures

Quentin Blake’s Drawings as Inspiration!

Drawing and Making Flowers

Drawing in the National Curriculum

Clay Slab Work by Andy Cairns

Murals in Schools by Tracy McGuinness-Kelly

Minibeast Artwork by Tracy McGuinness-Kelly

Drawing Clouds and Mark Making

Taking Creative Risks

Drawing Out of Your Comfort Zone

Seasonal Drawings: Observation, Composition and Colour

Set Design with Primary Aged Children

Drawing Stories: Illustrations by Children

Which Artists: Faith Bebbington

Designing Wallpaper!

Discovering Charcoal – Warm-Up Exercise for Children

Drawing by Torchlight

Reflect and Discuss: Crits in the Classroom

Making Sculptures: The Chair And Me

Making Mini Sculptures that “Belong To The Ground”

Dressing Up as Fossils!

See Three Shapes

Drawing Spiral Snails

Monoprinting with Oil Pastel and Carbon Copy Paper

Thoughtful Mark Making

Drawing Bubbles

Paper Dress by Andrea Butler

The IMPRESSABILITY Project

Nature Tagging

Artist Aurora Cacciapuoti Introduces Japanese Bookbinding

Sue Gough: Making a Layered Drawing

Communal Drawing: Summer Picnic!

Watercolour Washes Inspired by the Tapestries of Henry Moore

Sewing Circuits – Where Art, Science and D&T Meet

Glow in the Dark Architectural Models – Where Art, Science and D&T Meet

Making Maps Magical with Thermochromic Paint – Where Art, Science and D&T Meet

Drawing Vegetables: A Drawing Game

Making ‘Large as Life’ Scroll Drawings

Making a Sculptural Modroc Mask

Exercise for Making an Artist’s Book or Sketchbook

Warm-up Drawing Exercise: Making Stronger Drawings

Quick Drawing Exercise: Helping Children to Draw Larger!

Book Art with Primary Children

Making Textured Clay Tessellations

Pin and Paper Fashion: A Workshop for Primary Children

Simple Drawing Exercise: Drawing to the Slow Rhythm of a Metronome

Illustrating Stories: Creating a Storyboard and First Dummy Book

Swoop

After School Art Club: Drawing, Collage, Painting and Sculpture. (Part 2)

Batik in Schools PDF

Making Batik Textiles in the Classroom

Still and Dynamic Drawing: Making Magic Spells!

Using Modroc as a Sculptural Construction Material: Handmade Plasterboard!

Fish Sculptures

Digital Drawing: Using a Tablet, Phone or iPad as a Drawing Tool for Reportage

Diary of a Sculptural Sketchbook

Easy Lino Printing with Zeena Shah

Drawing and Collaging Fish and Seeing Composition

Drawing Fish with Pen, Pencil and Watercolour

Decorated Paper Bowls

Drawing with Indian Ink with Aurora Cacciapuoti – Illustrator

The Electric Shades of Coloured Biros

Drawing Glass: Exploring a Still Life with Tracing Paper

Sculptural Modroc Shoes!

Tackling Still Life for Children Part 2 – Building a Drawing from the Ground Up

Tackling Still Life for Children Part 1 – Continuous Line Drawing

Tackling Still Life for Children Part 3 – Acrylic Painting

Mixed Media Storytelling Mural by Kathryn Sjogren

Making Collagraphs

Drawing Together, Working on Shared Drawings & Being Inspired by Each Other

Simple Drawings on Brown Paper: Letting Form and Colour Coexist

How to Use Simple Thermoplastic Moulding Techniques

Pegged out on the Washing Line: Drawing Clothes and thinking about Texture and Gravity

“Feely Drawings” or Drawing by Touch – a 5 minute drawing exercise

Developing a Drawing Through Exploration of Drawing Media

Beginner’s Guide to Drawing Materials

Drawing Inspired by Elements: Making Structure

Drawing Inspired by Elements: Drawing Moving Water

Drawing Inspired by Elements: Hands Moving Charcoal Dust

Making Cotton Reel Motors and Obstacle Tracks