Digital Painting and Creative Art · Digital Literacy

Creating with Shapes

Using geometric shapes to build complex images like houses, cars, or animals on screen.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can we combine simple circles and squares to make a person?
  2. 2What are the trade-offs of using a pre-made shape versus drawing it by hand?
  3. 3How does changing the size of a shape change the whole picture?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

KS1: Computing - Information TechnologyKS1: Computing - Creating Content
Year: Year 1
Subject: Computing
Unit: Digital Painting and Creative Art
Period: Digital Literacy

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