Year 4 Clothes and culture: wearable art worksheet

“Hidden Stories in Wrapping” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 art unit “Clothes and culture: wearable art”, for children aged 8 to 9, 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 33 to 36 of the year, 4 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Hidden Stories in Wrapping

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Art & design · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can use colour, form and material to show a hidden story in a sculpture.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which of these is NOT a primary colour?
redbluegreenyellow
2.
What is this 3D shape called?
cubespherecone
3.
Mixing red and yellow makes which colour?
orangepurplegreen

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali wants his wrapped sculpture to hold a hidden story about the sea. Which colour should he choose?

Watch me

Ali's family loved the sea.

Blue reminds him of the sea.

He wraps blue wool round his form. The hidden story is the sea.

Now you

1.
Zara's gran grows bright sunflowers in her garden. Zara wants her wrapping to remind her of gran. Which colour should she pick?
greyyellowblack
2.
Noah remembers a snowy walk with his dad. Which colour could he wrap his form in?
redwhiteorange

C Your turn6 min

Name each form. Think about how it would sit, roll or stand.

1.
Which name fits this shape?
cubecylinderpyramid
2.
Which name fits this shape?
conecubesphere
3.
Which name fits this shape?
spherecylindercuboid
4.
Which name fits this shape?
cuboidconesphere

Say it out loud: Which of these shapes rolls easily, and which one sits still on a table?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A tall paper tube wrapped in soft blue and yellow wool, standing still on a table

Kit says: “My sculpture is only good if it looks real and moves.”

1.
Is Kit right? Explain why in one or two sentences.

E Think deeper4 min

Scraps of wool, ribbon, string and fabric laid out on a table

1.
Think of a place, person or memory that matters to you. Which material and colour would you wrap it in, and why?

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Hidden Stories in Wrapping · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. green If they picked red, blue or yellow, ask which two colours mix to make green. Green is a secondary colour.

2. cube

3. orange If they said purple, they may be thinking of red and blue. Ask which two colours they would mix to make orange.

B

1. yellow If they chose grey or black, ask what colour sunflowers are. Colour can carry a memory without any words.

2. white

C

1. cylinder

2. cone If they said cylinder, they may be looking at a tube. A cone narrows to a point at the top.

3. sphere

4. cuboid If they said sphere, ask whether it has flat faces. A cuboid has flat faces and sits still.

D

1. Look for: Says no and gives a reason: a sculpture can be still or bulky and still tell a story, without looking real or moving. If they agree with Kit, ask whether a still wrapped tube could hold a memory. Then ask what story their own sculpture might hide.

E

1. Look for: A named material and colour, with a reason linked to a memory, place or feeling.

Words to use

Say“What is one thing that matters to you? Which colour would remind you of it?”

Instead of“Your sculpture has to look like something real, so draw a person first.”

After the sheet

Wrap a cardboard tube in scraps of wool or string. Choose a colour that reminds you of a place you know, then tell your grown-up the story.

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:

Pose and costume tell stories(with a plan)
Clay beads and their meanings(with a plan)
Symbols That Mean Something(with a plan)

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