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Year 2 Our spaces: drawing and printing worksheet

“My Dream Building” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 art unit “Our spaces: drawing and printing”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 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 4 to 9 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

My Dream Building

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Art & design · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can use my imagination to plan a building that is not like any real one.

A Look back3 min

  1. 1.

    Yellow and blue mixed together make which colour? Circle one.

    yellowblue
    greenorangepurple
  2. 2.

    A square has how many corners?

  3. 3.

    How many flat faces does this cube have?

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola is painting the roof of her dream building. She picks red, orange and yellow.

Watch me
redorangeyellow

Red, orange and yellow are hot colours. We also call them warm.

Colours that feel calm are cold colours. We also call them cool.

So Ola's roof will feel warm and bright.

Now you
  1. 1.

    Ola paints the walls blue, green and purple. Are they hot or cold colours? Circle one.

    hotcold

C Your turn6 min

Look at each set of colours. Circle the answer.

  1. 1.

    Do these colours feel warm or cool? Circle one.

    warmcool
  2. 2.

    One colour in this set feels cool. Circle it.

    redorangeblue
  3. 3.

    One colour in this set is hot. Circle it.

    greenpurpleyellow
  4. 4.

    Which colour in this set feels cool? Circle one.

    yelloworangegreen

Say it out loud: Which colours feel warm, and which feel cool? What do you notice as the colours change?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A tall painted building with wobbly walls, round windows and small trees growing on the roof
Kit says: “Artists always draw things exactly how they look in real life.”
  1. 1.

    Is Kit right? Write why.

E Think deeper4 min

A close-up of a painted wall with swirls, stripes and dots in warm and cool colours
  1. 1.

    Sketch a dream building on spare paper. Write one thing in it that is not real.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet
StudyDen · Year 2 · Art & design · Our spaces: drawing and printingAnswers are on the grown-up page

For the grown-up

My Dream Building · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. green

2. 4

3. 6

B

1. cold If your child circles hot, ask which colours feel calm. Blue, green and purple are cold colours, so the answer is cold.

C

1. warm

2. blue If your child circles red or orange, ask which colour feels calm. Red and orange are hot, so point to the cool one.

3. yellow

4. green If your child circles yellow or orange, remind them these are hot colours. Green is the cool one here.

D

1. Look for: Says Kit is wrong because artists can use imagination and do not always copy real life exactly. If your child says Kit is right, point to the wobbly walls in the picture. Ask if the artist copied a real house or made it up.

E

1. Look for: Names one made-up feature, such as cake walls or a floating roof.

Words to use

Say“What did you imagine that is not real? Show me the wobbly bit.”
Instead of“Draw it so it looks exactly like a real house.”

After the sheet

Look at a box or a mug at home. Draw it lightly, then add one thing you made up, like a swirl or a tree.

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:

  1. Drawing buildings with charcoal(with a plan)
  2. Lines in a Building(with a plan)
  3. Eco-friendly building designs(with a plan)
  4. Build a Recycled Home(with a plan)
  5. Make a Monoprint Building(with a plan)

Every Year 2 art worksheet

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