Ignite your children’s creativity with this vibrant outdoor art unit, where they experiment with colour, line, and texture to create portraits in the style of Picasso. With hands-on activities using natural materials, inventive tools, and playful warm-ups, this unit makes art active, engaging, and unforgettable—perfect for inspiring artistic confidence and bringing your outdoor space to life.
Lesson Plans
Understanding how to mix colours
Deliver an engaging outdoor lesson for colour mixing, creating large colour wheels outdoors, without the worry of mess and cleaning up!
During this outdoor lesson children will continue to apply their knowledge of colour mixing, while using nature to make paintbrushes to use to paint lines of different thicknesses.
Learning objective:
To explore painting lines of different thicknesses.
Deliver an exciting outdoor lesson to develop the skill of drawing lines of different shapes and thicknesses. Your children will have the opportunity to practise this skill in a variety of warm ups during the starter. They will also draw on nature to create a piece of artwork in the style of Picasso.
Learning objective:
To understand how to draw lines of different shapes and thicknesses.
During this outdoor lesson, your children will have the opportunity to create collages using materials provided by nature. Using leaves, scissors and hole punches, children will create portraits in the style of Picasso.
Have your children apply the skills taught during this outdoor learning unit. Children will have the freedom to choose their materials, colours and tools to create portraits in the style of Picasso.
Learning objective:
To use an artist’s artwork to inspire my own creation.