Read up on your favourite artists, watch art videos, find out about art techniques and artworks and discover fascinating facts about art history.
Find out more here: http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore
Introduce your class to all the ways to be an artist
How to be a screen printer
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-printmaker
How to be a performance artist
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-performance-artist
How to be an illustrator
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-illustrator
How to be a designer
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-okido-designers
How to be a street artist
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-street-artist
Be inspired by Jackson Pollock and make some drippy action paintings.
Play some jazz and get painting!
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/make-jackson-pollock
Join our digital artist and create your own world!
Grab an artwork from the Tate collection, jump on Photoshop and get creative!
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/art-technology/make-digital-world
Look at some of the first photography techniques and make your own photographs using spinach!
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/make-vegetable-photo
Be inspired by Leonara Carrington at Tate Liverpool and make your own surreal collage.
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/draw-surreal-creature
Create a digital negative from your own digital photo and then make a cyanotype print!
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/art-technology/experimental-photography
Be inspired by the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth and learn how to soap carve
Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/soap-carving
Learn about the artist Alfred Wallis and discover how to create a picture with sand. Grab some sand and create some art inspired by the seaside!
Find our more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/sand-art-picture
How can an art gallery inspire you to tell your own stories?
Watch the film: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/jacqueline-wilsons-magical-tour-tate-britain
Learn how to potato print and make some arty designs to wrap your present. Learn about the life and artwork of the artist Terry Frost.
Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/wrapping-paper
Discover how these artists draw people and clothes and learn about the artists’ life and artwork.
Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/draw-pre-raphaelite
Bright colours, bold brushstrokes and a rebellious spirit! Find out more about the impressionist painters including Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Camille Pissarro.
The thing is, impressionist artists were not trying to paint a reflection of real life, but an ‘impression’ of what the person, light, atmosphere, object or landscape looked like to them. And that’s why they were called impressionists! They tried to capture the movement and life of what they saw and show it to us as if it were happening before our eyes.
Find out more:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/what-is/impressionism
You are going to make your very own Matisse-inspired collage! Take a closer look at nature and be creative with shapes and colours as you cut out your own masterpiece!
http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/collage-matisse-snail
Do you know what your senses are? When you touch, smell, see, taste or hear something, you are using one of your senses. A sensory sculpture is a sculpture that uses your senses. You might be able to see it, hear it or smell it!
YOU WILL NEED
A glass or plastic bottle or a jam jar with a lid
Some plasticine or sticky tack to fill the top of the bottle
Scissors
Tape
Water
Food colouring
To add the ‘sensory’ parts of the sculpture you could choose from many different objects. Here are some ideas:
Coloured card, scrap paper or newspaper
Tissue paper or crepe paper
Fabric (maybe an old sock, scarf or t-shirt that you don’t use anymore and can be cut up)
Tin foil or baking parchment
Shiny plastic wrappers or sticky-back plastic
Baking beads
Find the full resource on Tate Kids: www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-sensory-sculpture