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Lesson 2: Painting: Tints and shades - Option 2: Christmas themed

Learning that a 'tint' is made by adding white to a colour and a 'shade' by adding black, pupils mix colours to paint a Christmas-themed template, working across the image from light to dark and completing a contrasting background.

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Learning objective

To know how to create tint and shade of a colour

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught:

To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download and print classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May struggle to paint neatly and blend tones from dark to light, encourage them to practise first. They may need to complete all the colour mixing first to have a palette ready to use before applying it to their work.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be encouraged to repeat this process with another colour, and can create their own Christmas shapes, or Christmas scenes to apply this technique to.