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Year 3 art

Year 3 art runs to 40 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 7 to 8 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes rainforest, diversity, feature, composition, frottage, texture, leaf, collage, layering, line, geometric shapes, organic shapes.

These lessons are written by Oak National Academy, the government-funded curriculum body, and are free to anyone. StudyDen sequences them, marks the answers and keeps the record.

Every Year 3 art lesson

In the order they are taught. 40 lessons.

The Rainforest: drawing and painting

  1. Artists Who Use the Rainforest as Inspiration
  2. Make Frottage Leaf Studies
  3. Collage Skills: Rainforest Plants with Frottage
  4. Draw the Rainforest: Studies of Plants and Leaves
  5. Explore the Shades, Textures and Colours of a Rainforest
  6. Paint a Rainforest

Monsters: sculpture and digital design

  1. Monsters in Myths and Film
  2. Design a Monster
  3. Plan a Monster Animation
  4. Make a Modelling Clay Monster
  5. Make Your Monster Move: Stop Motion Animation
  6. Edit and Complete a Stop Motion Animation

Creature Construction: sculpture

  1. Sketchbook Research: Artists Who Assemble Materials to Make Sculpture
  2. Sketchbook Research: Insect, Animal and Bird Studies and Designs
  3. Sculpture: Make a Maquette
  4. Select and Assemble Recyclable Materials to Make a Creature
  5. Sculpture: Refine and Finish Your Creature Creation
  6. Make a Tonal Study of a Sculpture

Insects: drawing and printmaking

  1. Draw and Observe Insects in Detail
  2. Refine and Prepare Drawings for Print
  3. Insect Printmaking: Monoprint
  4. Insect Printmaking: Block Print
  5. Make a Repeat Pattern Print
  6. Insect Printmaking: Chine Collé

Recycled robots: drawing and sculpture

  1. Research Robots in Art
  2. Design a Robot
  3. Create a Maquette of a Robot
  4. Sculpt a Robot Using Recyclable Materials
  5. Refine and Evaluate a Robot Sculpture
  6. Make a Tonal Study of a Robot Sculpture

Perfect Patterns: drawing and design

  1. Patterns in Nature
  2. Investigating Patterns in Art
  3. Creating a Pattern Using a Square Grid
  4. Create a Kaleidoscope Pattern
  5. Design and Make a Pattern Motif
  6. Print a Repeat Pattern Using a Motif

Imagined spaces and shared stories

  1. Charcoal Worlds: Draw, Smudge, Imagine
  2. Balance and Print: Telling Stories with Everyday Things
  3. Art Installation: Sculpture You Can Walk Through
  4. Clay Landscapes: Hand Building Towers Together

Each of the 7 units has a free printable Year 3 art worksheet, with the answers on a separate page.

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Common questions

What does Year 3 art cover?
Year 3 art runs to 40 lessons across a 36 week year, covering rainforest, diversity, feature, composition, frottage, texture and more.
How many art lessons are in Year 3?
40 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 3?
Children in Year 3 are 7 to 8 years old during the school year in England and Wales.