RIC-6584 Exploring Visual Art (Upper)

Pyramid collage
DURATION
One lesson
TASK
Create a collage of an Egyptian pyramid scene using coloured paper.
Materials
✓✓ A3 pink card
✓✓ purple or dark blue, yellow and orange origami paper
✓✓ glue
✓✓ scissors
✓✓ rulers
✓✓ lead pencils
LESSON
1. Rule two large triangles—one on the yellow paper and one on the blue paper.
2. Cut out both triangles and overlap them until they form a pyramid shape with a light side
and a shadow side.
3. Glue the triangle shapes onto the pink card, about 5 cm from the bottom edge.
4. Make two smaller pyramid shapes and glue them 5 cm from the bottom edge.
5. Tear a sandhill shape from the orange paper and glue onto the bottom edge, overlapping the
bottom of the pyramids.
6. Tear some cloud shapes from the yellow and orange paper and glue them, overlapping each
other, in the sky.
Evaluation
Arts ideas Arts skills and processes Arts responses Arts in society
• Develops ideas to
create artwork in a
particular style.
• Selects, creates
and uses shapes.
• Uses paper to
create an image for
a collage.
• Evaluates own work
and that of others.
• Understands that
skills we learn in
visual arts can
assist us in other
parts of our lives;
for example, in
mathematics.
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