Year 1 Visual Arts – Term 1 (WA Curriculum): Creating and Sharing Our Artwork

What this unit covers

In Term 1, Year 1 Visual Arts in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Creating and Sharing Our Artwork”.

Students explore various technologies and techniques to create original artwork and learn how to display their creations effectively.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Exploring Crayons and Paper - Making Our First Artwork
2. Mixing Colors with Paint - Creating Rainbow Pictures
3. Drawing with Different Tools - Pencils, Markers, and Chalk
4. Making Mixed Media Collages with Paper and Paint
5. Creating Texture Art Using Digital Drawing Apps
6. Preparing Our Artwork for Display - Trimming and Mounting
7. Setting Up Our First Art Exhibition - Arranging and Labeling
8. Sharing Our Art Gallery - Presenting Our Creations

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 1

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 1 runs from Monday 2 February to Thursday 2 April — 9 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.