June 22, 2022
Children’s Art Week (CAW) takes place over three weeks from 29th June to 19th July 2022. The celebration of the visual arts is a UK-wide programme run by Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, with the aim of encouraging families and children to take part in creative activities that they may not have tried before. During the three weeks, creative activities take place across the UK, both virtually and in-person, and there are a host of opportunities for children to be inspired.
For 2022, Engage are encouraging parents and educators to make their own plans for CAW. As well as a selection of templates on their website (see below), there are several Purple Mash activities you can use to inspire, entertain and educate your young learners.
Head over to the Art area of Purple Mash and you’ll find links to our five main art tools, a wide range of paint projects organised by topic, and a variety of writing projects based on famous artists and art movements, which all use the newly updated 2Publish.
There’s no theme for 2022, but last year’s topics make a great starting point.
To celebrate the natural world, we have so many resources on 2Paint that can be used. Can you draw a leave changed by Autumn? And now that it is Winter, why not paint a typical Winter scene where you are and tell us all about what you would expect to see. There could be some surprising results across Australia. Or you could even paint yourself your very own AFL shirt so this season's games?.
To explore the theme of connecting across generations why not try our Self Portrait 2Paint a Picture resource? You can use this to not only paint what you look like but what other members of your family look like. You can also paint a picture of your family including how many people there are and who they are!
To ignite your creativity by looking at the theme of literacy and creative writing, why not explore some of your favourite books and paint a scene of them using 2Paint a Picture.
And why not paint what The Gruffalo looks like with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. Or there's Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack climbed to the top of the beanstalk, but what did he see? Explore children's ideas by asking them to draw what they think he laid his eyes on.
Whatever you get up to whilst celebrating Children’s Art Week, let us know on Twitter @2SimpleAUS or on Facebook at 2SimpleAustralia. Have fun Purple Mash-ing!
Learn more about Engage, the event organisers.
