The Arts · Foundation

Lesson 1

Spot the lines and shapes that artists use to draw the whole world.

⏱ 12 min · 11 questions

Lesson 2

Name colours, spot them around you, and learn the colours of the rainbow.

⏱ 11 min · 9 questions

Lesson 3

Sing songs and explore the loud, soft, high and low sounds your voice can make.

⏱ 10 min · 8 questions

Lesson 4

Explore how your body can move and the space all around you when you dance.

⏱ 11 min · 8 questions

Lesson 5

Use your imagination to pretend to be people, animals and things.

⏱ 11 min · 8 questions

Lesson 6

Explore how we can draw and make pictures using a screen and buttons.

⏱ 10 min · 8 questions

Lesson 7

Explore how music and sounds can be loud or soft, and fast or slow.

⏱ 10 min · 8 questions

Lesson 8

Feel rough, smooth, soft and bumpy things and learn what texture means.

⏱ 10 min · 7 questions

Lesson 9

Feel and keep a steady beat by tapping, clapping and stepping along.

⏱ 10 min · 7 questions

Lesson 10

Make shadow shapes with your hands and pretend they are characters.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 11

Press hard or soft to make colours light or dark when you draw.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 12

Listen for sounds that go up high or down low to hear a melody.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 13

Make a frozen picture with your body to show a moment in a story.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 14

Dance near, far, together and apart to show relationships in dance.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 15

Glue leaves, petals and twigs to make a picture from things you find outside.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 16

Listen for the everyday sounds of the world and make them with your voice.

⏱ 10 min · 6 questions

Lesson 17

Make a sock or paper puppet talk and move to tell a tiny story.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 18

Walk, jump, hop and skip to travel across the space when you dance.

⏱ 10 min · 6 questions

Lesson 19

Press your painted hand onto paper to make a print and turn it into a picture.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 20

Move and clap to music that speeds up and slows down.

⏱ 11 min · 6 questions

Lesson 21

Use simple objects to help tell a make-believe story.

⏱ 11 min · 6 questions

Lesson 22

Watch a leader and copy their moves to dance together.

⏱ 10 min · 6 questions

Lesson 23

Use little dots to fill in pictures, just like some artists do.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 24

Listen to a clapping pattern and copy it right back.

⏱ 10 min · 6 questions

Lesson 25

Show feelings on your face like an actor in a play.

⏱ 10 min · 6 questions

Lesson 26

Try different ways of moving your whole body in a dance.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 27

Dip simple objects in paint to stamp shapes and make a repeating print.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 28

Clap the parts of your name to feel that words are made of beats.

⏱ 10 min · 6 questions

Lesson 29

Use your body and voice to pretend to be different animals.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 30

Make your body big and stretched, then small and curled, in a dance.

⏱ 11 min · 6 questions

Lesson 31

Learn about a performing space and how to face the audience.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 32

Find the parts of a face and draw them in the right places.

⏱ 12 min · 7 questions

Lesson 33

Discover that everyday objects can make music when we shake or tap them.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 34

Move when the music starts and freeze when it stops.

⏱ 10 min · 7 questions

Lesson 35

Use your fingers to tear paper into pieces and stick them down to make a picture.

⏱ 10 min · 7 questions

Lesson 36

Stamp your feet and march in time to feel the steady beat in music.

⏱ 10 min · 7 questions

Lesson 37

Use a puppet to say hello and have a little pretend chat with a friend.

⏱ 10 min · 7 questions

Lesson 38

Explore spinning and turning your body, then stop in a balanced shape.

⏱ 10 min · 7 questions

Lesson 39

Explore making loud and soft sounds with simple classroom instruments.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 40

Discover that some colours feel warm and sunny while others feel cool and calm.

⏱ 12 min · 6 questions

Lesson 41

Roll, squash and pinch playdough to make a sculpture you can see from every side.

⏱ 13 min · 7 questions

Lesson 42

Clap, stamp, pat and click to turn your own body into an instrument.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 43

Listen for sounds that stretch out long and sounds that stop quickly.

⏱ 11 min · 7 questions

Lesson 44

Change your voice to sound like a giant, a mouse or a creaky old robot.

⏱ 12 min · 7 questions

Lesson 45

Move at high, middle and low levels, from tiptoes in the sky to crawling on the floor.

⏱ 12 min · 7 questions

Lesson 46

Wave, swirl and float a scarf or ribbon to make your dance moves bigger.

⏱ 11 min · 6 questions

Lesson 47

Learn to hold the camera still, fit your subject in the frame, and snap a clear photo.

⏱ 12 min · 7 questions

Lesson 48

Put pictures in order so they tell a story with a beginning, middle and end.

⏱ 13 min · 7 questions