Year 1 Moon and space: drawing and mixed media worksheet

“Draw a round moon” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 art unit “Moon and space: drawing and mixed media”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 22 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 27 to 32 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Draw a round moon

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Art & design · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can use curved lines and light and dark marks to make a circle look round.

A Look back3 min

1.
How many corners does this shape have?
2.
Which of these colours are primary colours? Circle them.
redyelloworange
3.
Red and yellow mixed together make which colour? Circle it.
orangepurplegreen

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola draws a ball of clay. The light shines from the left.

A round ball of grey clay on a wooden table, lit from the left

Watch me

Start with light marks on every part.

Add more marks on the shadow side, closer together.

That side looks dark. The lit side stays light.

Now you

1.
The light shines from the left. Which side of the ball is darkest? Circle it.
left sideright side
2.
Which kind of line helps a flat circle look round?
straight linescurved lineszigzag lines

C Your turn6 min

Look at each picture, then answer the question.

A round ball of grey clay on a wooden table, lit from the right

A round ball of grey clay on a wooden table, lit from directly above

1.
Which swatch is the darkest? Circle it.
whitegreyblack
2.
The light shines from the right. Which side of the ball is darkest? Circle it.
left sideright side
3.
The light shines from above. Which part of the ball is darkest? Circle it.
topbottom
4.
The light shines from above. Which part of the ball is lightest? Circle it.
topmiddlebottom

Say it out loud: What changed from the question before, and what stayed the same?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “A plain circle already looks like a ball. It needs no dark marks.”

1.
Is Kit right? Circle yes or no.
YesNo

E Think deeper4 min

Draw the Moon as a round ball with curved lines. Make one side dark and one side light.

1.
Tell your grown-up where the light comes from. Which side is darkest?

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Draw a round moon · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 3

2. red, yellow

3. orange

B

1. right side If they circle left, ask: is the light shining on that side? The side away from the light is the dark side.

2. curved lines If they choose straight lines, ask them to draw a flat circle with straight lines and see if it looks round. Then try curved lines.

C

1. black

2. left side If they circle right, ask: which side is the light shining on? Then ask which side is in shadow.

3. bottom

4. top

D

1. No If they say yes, they think a plain outline is enough. Ask them to shade one side of a circle and compare it with the plain one.

E

1. Look for: Says where the light comes from and that the side away from the light is darkest, with curved marks used to show it.

Words to use

Say“Where is the light coming from? Which side is in shadow?”

Instead of“That's lovely, now make it look more like the moon.”

After the sheet

Put a cup or an egg on the table by a window. Draw it with a pencil, making curved marks darker on the side away from the light.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Chalk Planet Colours(with a plan)
Swirly chalk prints(with a plan)
Marbled Paper Patterns(with a plan)
Planets from paper shapes(with a plan)
Dark Sky Background(with a plan)

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