Early Stage 1 Creative Arts Unit 3 | Kindergarten Drama & Visual Arts | 16 Lessons | 291 PowerPoint Slides

Product description

Bring Creative Arts to life in your Kindergarten classroom with this comprehensive Early Stage 1 Creative Arts Unit 3, featuring 16 engaging lessons and 291 beautifully designed PowerPoint slides.

Combining Drama and Visual Arts, this complete teaching resource guides students through imaginative role-play, storytelling, character development, drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and portraiture.

Created specifically for Early Stage 1 students and aligned with the NSW Creative Arts syllabus, each lesson provides clear learning intentions, success criteria, teacher preparation information and age-appropriate activities.

What’s included:

• 16 complete Creative Arts lessons.
• 291 engaging PowerPoint slides.
• Drama and Visual Arts learning experiences.
• Clear learning intentions and success criteria for every lesson.
• Step-by-step teaching instructions and discussion prompts.
• Vocabulary explanations suitable for Kindergarten students.
• Drama warm-ups and imaginative performance activities.
• Practical artmaking demonstrations and creative projects.
• Links to selected stories, videos, artworks and performances.
• Dramatic Elements Poster.
• Drama Warm-Ups resource.
• Elements of Art and Design Poster.
• Where Drama Happens Picture Cards.
• Role, Character and Situation Cards.
• Detailed unit overview and lesson overviews.
• Scope and sequence.
• Assessment guidance and observation checklists.
• Differentiation suggestions.
• Safety guidelines and cultural considerations.

Drama lessons explore:

• Pretending, imagination and dramatic play.
• Expressing feelings through facial expressions and movement.
• Roles, characters and situations.
• Tableaux and frozen pictures.
• Performance spaces and audiences.
• Storytelling through drama.
• Props, toys and everyday objects.
• Character development and imaginative adventures.
• Collaborative performances inspired by familiar stories.

Visual Arts lessons explore:

• Lines, shapes, colours and patterns.
• Identifying and discussing artworks.
• Continuous-line drawing.
• Primary and secondary colours.
• Painting techniques and brushstrokes.
• Printmaking using recycled materials.
• Abstract self-portraits and collage.
• Portraits of special people.
• Oil pastels, watercolour and wax-resist techniques.

Lessons included:

1. What Is Drama?
2. Exploring Lines, Shapes and Ideas.
3. Places Where Drama Is Performed.
4. Exploring Art, Stories and Country.
5. Drama Tells a Story.
6. Continuous Line.
7. Creating a Character.
8. Exploring Primary Colours.
9. Let’s Pretend!
10. Exploring Secondary Colours.
11. Building Character.
12. Abstract Self-Portrait.
13. Toys on an Adventure.
14. Portrait of a Special Person.
15. Exploring Drama.
16. My Special Person in Colour.

NSW syllabus outcomes:

• CAE-DRA-01: Drama.
• CAE-VIS-01: Visual Arts.

Perfect for Kindergarten teachers looking for a comprehensive, engaging and easy-to-follow NSW Early Stage 1 Creative Arts Unit 3 resource that combines meaningful dramatic play with hands-on visual arts experiences.