Visual Arts Planning: Stone Age

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Explore our collection of Stone Age resources.

The Stone Age provides lots of opportunities to create a really exciting, dynamic exploration of drawing materials such as charcoal, and to go back to the basics of mark-making. The following resources should help this exploration.

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Charcoal palatte

Stone age clay play

Drawing like a caveman

Create pots inspired by ceramic artefacts found at Stonehenge.

Charcoal Cave

Discovering charcoal

Rachel Thompson shows how to manipulate charcoal marked paper to create a cave-like space in a box.

drawing like a caveman

Drawing like a caveman

Create a charcoal “palette” and use hands to explore the way primitive man might have made his mark.

discovering charcoal: warm up exercise

Discovering charcoal

Enjoyable warm up drawing exercise which introduces children to using charcoal via easy steps.

turning paper into fur

Drawing fur

Inspiring exercise to help children question how a drawing can transform the paper it is on.

Thoughtful Mark Making

Thoughtful mark making

Enabling children to diversify their mark making by this guided drawing exercise using stones as subject matter.

making treasured pebbles

Drawing on pebbles

Drawing on pebbles with a variety of different drawing materials to create treasured and exotic fossils.

dressing up as fossils!

Creating painted textiles inspired by rocks and fossils

Children create large scale painted textiles inspired by rocks and fossils, and then use the textiles to turn themselves into rocks!

working with and in landscape

Using objects from landscape to paint with

Artist Frances Hatch shares her processes for creating site specific art, inspired by a variety materials found at the location.

monoprinting with carbon paper

Monoprinting with carbon paper

Using carbon copy paper as an effective, no-mess way to make monoprints, using stones and rocks as subject matter.

primal painting

Exploring primal painting

Marijke Liefting and Iris Verbakel, share a workshop session in which children explore a kitchen garden as a source for natural pigments.

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