Year 1 My world: art and nature worksheet

“Dotting a walking line” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 art unit “My world: art and nature”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 23 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 33 to 36 of the year, 4 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Dotting a walking line

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Art & design · about 23 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can draw a walk as a line and dot it with paint.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the primary colour.
redorangepurple
2.
Circle the name of this shape.
trianglesquarecircle
3.
Red and yellow paint mixed together make which colour? Circle it.
orangegreenpurple

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali walks to the shop with his dad. He will draw the walk as a wiggly line and dot it with paint.

A dark blue sheet with a wiggly line of white dots running across it

Watch me

Ali draws his walk in pencil first.

Then he dots white paint along the line.

The dots show his walk, one step at a time.

Now you

1.
Ali is back from his walk. What does he do first? Circle it.
Dot the paintDraw the line in pencil
2.
Noah wants his walk to look like a bend and a turn. Which line should he draw? Circle it.
a straight ruler linea wavy line

C Your turn7 min

Each question changes one thing. Look at what changes.

1.
Noah goes up and down a steep hill on his walk. Circle the line that shows this.
a zigzag linea straight linea single dot
2.
Ali is painting his walk on black paper. Circle the paint that shows best.
whiteblack
3.
Sort the dot cards into the right column.
white dots on black paperyellow dots on dark blue paperblack dots on black paper
Easy to see Hard to see
4.
Put these steps in order. You tell your grown-up at the very end. Write 1 to 4 in the boxes.
1. Tell your grown-up one thing you saw
2. Dot along the line with a cotton bud
3. Go for a short walk
4. Draw the line in pencil on dark paper

Say it out loud: What changed between the first question and the last one?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A lane that curves between hedges, drawn as a simple flat picture

Lou says: “A walking line must be one straight ruler line.”

1.
Lou walks along this bendy lane. Which line can show the walk? Circle it.
a straight ruler linea wavy line

E Think deeper4 min

Think of a walk you remember well. Draw it as a line, then tell your grown-up what one dot means.

Dry rolling land with a pale track of dots across it

1.
Draw your walking line on the back of this sheet. Then write what one dot stands for.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Dotting a walking line · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. red your child may have picked a mixed colour. Orange and purple are made from two other colours. Red is a colour you cannot make from others.

2. triangle

3. orange If your child chose green, say that green needs blue and yellow. Red and yellow make orange.

B

1. Draw the line in pencil If your child chose dotting first, say the pencil line is the guide. The dots go on the line after it is drawn.

2. a wavy line If your child chose the ruler line, ask if the walk went straight the whole way. Real walks bend and turn.

C

1. a zigzag line If your child chose the straight line, ask how the walk goes up and down. A zigzag shows up and down.

2. white If your child chose black, ask them to look at the paper. Black paint on black paper cannot be seen. Try the light paint.

3. Easy to see: white dots on black paper, yellow dots on dark blue paper · Hard to see: black dots on black paper If your child put black dots on black paper in Easy, ask them to look at it from across the table. Light dots show on dark paper.

4. 1 Go for a short walk · 2 Draw the line in pencil on dark paper · 3 Dot along the line with a cotton bud · 4 Tell your grown-up one thing you saw If your child started with the dots, ask them what the walk was before any marks were made.

D

1. a wavy line your child may have picked the ruler line because Lou did. Remind them that a walk bends, so a wavy line can show it.

E

1. Look for: A drawn walking line, plus one sentence saying what one dot or stroke stands for in a real memory.

Words to use

Say“Which way did your walk go? Show me with your finger. Where did the line bend?”

Instead of“That's not how you paint a walk, just draw it straight like the ruler.”

After the sheet

Go for a short walk with your child. When you return, they draw the route in pencil on dark paper and dot it with a cotton bud and light paint. Ask them to say one thing they saw.

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

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

Clay Spirals and Earth Colours(with a plan)
Colours, Sounds and Wax(with a plan)
Sea story cloth(with a plan)

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