Coverage and Progression in EYFS

Drawing

Drawing: Marvellous Marks

Exploring mark making through different drawing materials. Beginning to draw from observation using faces and self-portraits as a stimulus.

EYFS outcomes

Physical development

Develops small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.
Develop overall body-strength, balance, co-ordination and agility.
Develop the foundations of a handwriting style which is fast, accurate and efficient.
ELG: Fine Motor Skills: Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery.
ELG: Fine Motor Skills: Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing.

Expressive arts and design

Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express ideas and feelings.
ELG: Creating with materials: Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Characteristics of effective learning

Playing and exploring.

Painting and Mixed Media

Painting and mixed media: Paint my world

Exploring paint and painting techniques through nature, music and collaborative work. Developing creativity through child-led exploration of mixed-media, making collages and transient art.

EYFS outcomes

Physical development

ELG: Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing.
Develop small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.
ELG: Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery.

Expressive arts and design

Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express ideas and feelings.
ELG: Creating with materials: Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Listen attentively, move to and talk about music, expressing their feelings and responses.
ELG: Creating with materials: Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.
Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.

Characteristics of effective learning

Playing and exploring.

Sculpture and 3D

Sculpture and 3D: Clay

Exploring and understanding clay through manipulation and experimentation; developing small motor skills.

EYFS outcomes

Physical development

Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.
Develop overall body-strength, balance, coordination and agility.

Expressive arts and design

ELG: Creating with materials: Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Characteristics of effective learning

Playing and exploring.

EYFS Associated Vocabulary

Drawing:

paint	wax crayon	colours	pencils	chalk
felt tips	mark making	mark	drawing	wax crayons
line	zig-zag	squiggly	curved	wavy
rubbing	medium	drawing	artist
straight	thick	thin	long	short
ridged	soft	bumpy	smooth	rough
observe	observational drawing	texture	pattern	feeling
face	nose	eyes	ears	hair

Painting and mixed media:

paint	red	green	yellow	blue
dab	dot	wipe	glide	squelchy
sticky	shiny	glistening	glossy	wet
smooth	slippery	silky	slimy	feathers
grass	flower buds	leaves	twigs	pinecones
sweep	swirl	happy	sad	tempo
sleepy	excited	worried	fast	slow
dynamic	loud	quiet	transient art	collage
fixed	permanent	temporary	landscape	Megan Coyle
rip	tear	cut	stick	flick
splat	stroke

Sculpture and 3D:

silky	wet	pull	pinch	squash
smooth	sticky	poke	roll	stretch
slippery	squelchy	twist	bend	push
slimy

EYFS at work

Drawing: Marvellous marks

Exploring mark making through different drawing materials. Beginning to draw from observation using faces and self-portraits as a stimulus.

Felt-tip pens

Using felt-tip pens to represent an artist's work

The children learnt all about the artist, Pablo Picasso, during our Spanish Day. The children explored the bright colours Picasso used, how he used shapes in his cubism art and mixed up faces.

The children started by practising cubism art using a colouring template, then drew their own Picasso faces.

Chalks

Mark making outdoors with chalk, practising creating patterns in a new medium and identifying similarities and differences between the drawing tools used.

The children have been exploring how they can make large and small marks outside using the different sized chalks. The children experimented with lines, shapes as well as smudging to see the different effects it would make.

Drawing faces

Creating self-portraits by applying their observational skills, using mirrors to draw their faces carefully.

The children explored the features on their faces using a mirror. We spoke about the colour of their eyes, hair and skin and the children attempted to find the correct colour for their pictures.

We explored shapes of faces, eyes and noses as well as trying to get the shape of our mouth correct too.

Observational pencil drawings

Developing skills in observation, using pencils to draw and reflecting on whether their drawings show what they can see.

Following on from reading the text Owl Babies, the children thought about how their homes are cosy and which elements of the home makes them so. We drew our homes using our memories after looking at different types of houses.

Sculpture and 3D: Creation station

Exploring the sculptural qualities of malleable materials and natural objects; developing the use of tools and joining techniques; designing and making clay animal sculptures.

Clay

Exploring and understanding clay through manipulation and experimentation; developing small motor skills.

Creating animal sculptures

Shaping clay into animal sculptures; refining their ideas as they follow their designs and problem solving as they work.

After reading Owl Babies, the children explored the different parts of an owl. We spoke about its large eyes, its beak, wings and talons.

The children explored how they could mould the clay into the shape of an owl's body, then used the natural resources to add features. They thought about whether to use the items to print into the clay or whether to use the items as part of their sculpture.

Painting and mixed media: Paint my world

Exploring paint and painting techniques through nature, music and collaborative work. Developing creativity through child-led exploration of mixed-media, making collages and transient art.

Outdoor painting

Collecting materials and objects from nature to make painting tools; children use these to create abstract and figurative art.

The children collected different autumnal items from around the school that they felt would be good to print or paint with. We spoke about autumnal colours and explored these on the walk then chose the colours to use to represent these in their painting.

The children tried different approaches of painting the items prior to printing or using the item straight into the paint. The children mixed the colours as they explored their creations to see what other autumnal colours they could make.

The children explored a new way of painting to create firework pictures. The children used toilet rolls to make printing tools and carefully placed the prints onto the paper to avoid smudging. Some children explored how the pictures would look like if they placed come of the colours over the top of others.

using multiple media

We used different tools to print a basic Christmas Card design of either Rudolph or a bauble in a tree, then we added different media to enhance this using 3D effects. The printing tools were potato mashers and sliced straws. We added glitter, ribbons, pipe cleaners and red materials as well as googly eyes!

We made Valentine's Day cards for someone we loved. The children had a template of a heart and they decided whether to use pens and collage or just pens to create their cards. The children tore the tissue paper up into small pieces and stuck this into the heart, being careful not to go over the lines.

Aboriginal art

The children have been learning all about different art techniques and learnt all about aboriginal art and how they use dots to make their pictures. The children used this technique to go round an outline of a silhouette.