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Day 24 · Make a contour-and-gap artworkFoundation Visual Arts · T1 W5–6 · Day 24 lesson

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Foundation / Visual Arts / Term 1 / Weeks 05 06

Part of the full two-week lesson sequence. Check the pack guide and taught point before teaching.

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Target/codes: combine a chosen contour/fill with a deliberate between-shape gap into an original art image; AC9AVAFD01 and AC9AVAFC01. Prepare: contour/silhouette, gap-between, art choice record.

  1. Welcome · 3 min. Invite a non-personal purpose: an invented library tale, game scene, garden fantasy or child's own safe idea. This is art, not a Science observation record.
  2. Model · 4 min. Make two broad abstract forms on a blank page: one outline and one filled. Leave a clear notch-shaped gap. Name each decision without telling children what it must mean.
  3. Try together · 5 min. Child suggests a different outline/fill or gap choice; adult restates their plan and checks which feature was theirs.
  4. Child choice · 7 min. Child draws, arranges fixed broad shapes or directs an adult to create a new image with one chosen treatment and one gap. Invite one revision after looking; save the first plan if permitted. No tracing of real art or plant features is required.
  5. Notice · 4 min. Record intended idea, visible formal choices, actual maker/handler and any revision. If the work remains spoken/drawn planning, do not claim child physical collage handling.
  6. Close · 2 min. Child chooses whether to keep, privately show later or discard the practice image.