Visual Arts Planning: Trees, Forests and Landscape

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Explore our collection of Trees, Forests and Landscape resources.

We hope that these exciting and varied resources on the theme of trees, forest and landscape will help children with an exploration of drawing, painting and making. Many of the activities can be adapted to different levels of experience throughout the Key Stages.

Tell us what you are planning to cover or explore this term in your school or institution and we’ll recommend resources or learning approaches which we think might feed your teaching.

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Creating contrast of dark and light papers in a collage.

Manipulating forms in landscape Painting

Use local landscapes and landmarks to create abstract and colourful pieces that break elements into simple forms.

Imaginary landscapes

Explore landscape through tactile mark-making and collage.

concertina landscapes

Create your own concertina sketchbook and fill it with collages, paintings and drawings inspired by your local landscape.

Exploring macbeth through art: Heath Landscape

Create a landscape drawing that captures the dramatic and foreboding atmosphere.

Making Painted and Sewn landscapes

This post shares a way to explore working with both paint and thread to create painted and sewn responses to landscape.

mixed media landscape challenges

Here are some mixed media challenges for you to try in sketchbooks or on sheets of paper.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Creating a Forest Collage Part One

Explore paper and how it can be torn and cut to make shapes and form, before beginning to make a large scale collage.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Creating a Forest Collage Part Two

The role of moonlight is explored, with light and shadow added to the collages to create mystery and magic.

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

Children experience working together to create a shared drawing, working with pens, ink and quills.

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

Children continue working on their shared ink drawing, this time adding colour to create mood and atmosphere with soft pastels.

Ice worlds

Create a 3d imaginative interpretation of what an ice world above and below the waterline might be like.

Cloth, Paint, Print: Inspired by Natural Objects

Expreiment with textiles, monoprint and embroidery to create a varied textiles piece.

Painted and Sculptural Plant Pots

Exploring plants and pots through drawing, print, paint, collage and sculpture.

Autumn Floor Textiles

Explore the wax resist method using cloth.

drawing by touch

Children create 'feely drawings' to become aware of the different ways they can become familiar with their subject matter.

helping children to draw larger

A quick 5 minute drawing exercise to encourage children to fill the page with their drawing. Useful as a warm-up or icebreaker.

continuous line drawings: twigs

This resource helps children tune into their subject matter through careful looking, and quietens them for drawing.

Autumn floor drawings

continuous line drawings of autumn leaves and objects

Choose from a collection of autumn objects (leaves, twigs, conkers, acorns etc.) and create an ‘autumn floor’ of drawings using continuous line.

wax resist autumn leaves

Pupils explore observational drawing techniques followed by an immersive exploration of colour and scale using wax crayons and Brusho Crystal Colours.

inspired! 'the tree' by Hauxton primary

A Celebration of Children’s Art in Response to Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche by Year One and Two pupils in ‘Owl Class‘.

Making a Treehouse

A fun way to engage children with ideas about architecture, shape and form, and transformation of materials.

woodland exploration

Children make an exciting exploration of woodland using art and imagination.

drawing never ending landscapes

Inspired by the notion of Myriorama cards that create “never-ending landscapes”.

drawing the savannah

Mono printing, drawing, colour mixing, painting, landscapes, skyscapes, stencils, collage and scale.

exploring the hedgerow

Children take a walk, responding to the local environment and hedgerows to create colourful ‘network’ drawings and sketches.

animal habitats: an eco mural

The project explores animal habitats and took the form of a large scale mural.

our river -a communal drawing

Using Georges Seurat’s “Bathers at Asnières” (1884) as inspiration, a group of year 5 children create a layered drawing and ‘wax resist’ on a massive scale!

sketching from a source

This project encourages students to develop their sketchbook skills by using their observational drawings to create new imagery and designs.

painting the storm

The following project shares the journey and outcome of a weather-inspired exploration of watercolour and graphite.

explore and draw

Relaxing physical exercise are followed by drawing in the natural environment.

layered landscapes

Artist Kittie Jones provides a fantastic insight into her creative process when she is working outside.

building an indoor forest!

This was a quick and energetic session whereby teenagers transformed their studio into a forest in just an hour!

making tree house sculptures

An introduction to making tree house sculptures, with the focus on how to manipulate and construct materials, balance elements and design through making.

illustrating stories

An exciting resource to encourage children to explore storytelling, drawing and collage and to create their own illustrated book with text and images.

landscape sculptures

Teenagers are introduced to modelling wire and modroc as construction materials and use the theme of landscape to explore drawing and making simultaneously.

Diary of a sculptural sketchbook

Artist Emma Davies shares her working process through a sculptural sketchbook diary.

the winter tree challenge

Work on two projects simultaneously: a shared winter forest drawing in charcoal, and a sculpture challenge to make a winter tree.

water and rock: building drawings

In this one and a quarter hour long session, teenagers had the opportunity to explore drawing rocks and building drawings with modroc and graphite.

Working with Dogwood

In this post Swedish Artist Mostyn de Beer reflects on his experience working with a particular natural material – dogwood.

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