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Year 4 art

Year 4 art runs to 39 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 8 to 9 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes architect, building, structure, blueprint, perspective, vanishing point, horizon line, depth, tone, shading, highlight, shadow.

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 4 art lesson

In the order they are taught. 39 lessons.

Architecture: drawing and 3D design

  1. Investigate an Architect
  2. Draw Buildings Using Simple Perspective
  3. Tonally Shade Architecture
  4. Develop a Collaborative Group Design
  5. Make an Architectural 3D Model
  6. Present a Group Design Proposal

Views of a local landmark: ceramics

  1. Photograph a Local Landmark
  2. Research and Respond to a Local Landmark
  3. Design a Local Landmark Low Relief Tile
  4. Create a Low Relief Ceramic Tile: Trace and Prepare Your Design
  5. Create a Low Relief Ceramic Tile: Transfer and Carve
  6. Create a Low Relief Ceramic Tile: Decorate and Evaluate

Local landscape : painting

  1. Photograph a Landscape in Your Local Area
  2. Analyse a Local Landscape Through the Formal Elements
  3. Explore a Variety of Painting Techniques
  4. Identifying and Applying the Influence of Other Artists
  5. Lay the Foundations for a Local Landscape Painting
  6. Realise the Details of a Local Landscape Painting

Dream portraits: drawing and digital design

  1. Art About Dreams: Surrealism
  2. Illustrate a Piece of Text About Dreams
  3. Make a Portrait of a Sleeping Person
  4. Add Tone to Your Sleeping Portrait
  5. Surreal Dreamscape Collage
  6. Design a Digital Dreamscape

Hidden worlds: collage and mixed media

  1. Observe and Record Microorganisms
  2. Tonal Studies of Microorganisms
  3. Scrap Fabric Microorganism Collage
  4. Monoprint onto a Collaged Surface
  5. Creating Monoprinted Papers Using Different Textures and Surfaces
  6. Make an Abstract Composition

Recording, noticing, and caring: responding to nature and the planet

  1. Draw Fossils in an Abstract Style
  2. An Artist's Response to Plastic Waste
  3. Recording Environmental Textures
  4. Art That Shows Nature's Resilience
  5. Imagining a Better Future

Clothes and culture: wearable art

  1. Wrapping a Sculpture: Hidden Stories
  2. Masque: Sculpture, Clothes and Messages
  3. Clay Beads: Meanings and Patterns
  4. Printing Symbols: Banners and Identity

Each of the 7 units has a free printable Year 4 art worksheet, with the answers on a separate page.

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Common questions

What does Year 4 art cover?
Year 4 art runs to 39 lessons across a 36 week year, covering architect, building, structure, blueprint, perspective, vanishing point and more.
How many art lessons are in Year 4?
39 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 4?
Children in Year 4 are 8 to 9 years old during the school year in England and Wales.