Year 6 Creative careers: critical and contextual worksheet

“Festivals and their audience” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 art unit “Creative careers: critical and contextual”, for children aged 10 to 11, 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 27 to 32 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Festivals and their audience

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · Art & design · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain how a festival's target audience shapes its design decisions.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the colour you get when you mix red and yellow.
orangegreenpurple
2.
Which colour sits at the darkest end of a tone ladder? Circle it.
whiteyellowblack
3.
Circle the primary colour.
greenblueorangebrown

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ruby's team is planning a festival in a village park for children aged 5 to 7. Who the festival is for will shape the colours they choose.

Watch me

Who is it for? Children aged 5 to 7.

Young children like bright, clear colours that are easy to spot.

So the festival palette is red, yellow and blue.

Now you

1.
A ghost-story festival for teenagers, held at night in a wood. The mood is spooky. Circle the palette that suits it best.
darkbright

C Your turn8 min

Read who each festival is for and what mood it wants, then choose the palette that suits them.

1.
A festival for toddlers in a park. Circle the palette that suits them best.
brightdark
2.
A candlelit storytelling festival for grown-ups, held late at night in an old castle. The mood is mysterious. Circle the palette that suits it best.
darkbright
3.
A quiet festival for babies in a garden. Circle the palette that suits them best.
bright and loudsoft and calm
4.
Make up your own audience for a festival. Which palette suits them, and why?

Say it out loud: What changed between the rows, and did the palette change with it?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A steep grassy hill in summer with a few small trees and no people

Mia says: “Every festival is global, because people everywhere join in.”

1.
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling happens on one hill in Gloucestershire. New Year's Eve is marked in countries all over the world. Which festival is only local?

E Think deeper4 min

A blank sketchbook page on a wooden desk beside a pencil and a small pot of paints

1.
On a blank page, make a mind map for your own festival. Write its name in the middle and draw four branches: WHO, WHAT, WHERE and ACTIVITIES. Then explain how your WHO choice shaped at least one other branch.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Festivals and their audience · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. orange

2. black

3. blue

B

1. dark your child chose bright. Ask your child what mood the festival wants. A spooky night mood points towards dark colours.

C

1. bright your child chose dark. Toddlers respond to bright, clear colours. Ask what a toddler would notice first on a bright banner.

2. dark your child chose bright. Ask what mood a mysterious night in a castle needs. Dark colours help build that mood.

3. soft and calm

4. Look for: Names a made-up audience and a palette that fits it, with one reason linked to that audience.

D

1. Look for: Names the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling as the local festival. your child named New Year's Eve. Ask whether that event happens in only one place. A festival can be local and still count as a festival.

E

1. Look for: A festival name with four branches WHO, WHAT, WHERE and ACTIVITIES, and a reason linking the WHO choice to another branch.

Words to use

Say“Who is this festival for? What would you change if it were for babies?”

Instead of“That looks lovely. Just draw the next bit.”

After the sheet

Pick a local event you know, such as a school fair or a village fete. Write WHO, WHAT, WHERE and ACTIVITIES on paper, then talk through how the audience shapes each branch.

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:

Designing a festival logo(with a plan)
Honest posts for a festival(with a plan)
Mixing colours for a headdress(with a plan)
Makeup as a story(with a plan)
One mood, one world(with a plan)

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