Ready-to-teach Line & Shape learning from Foundation to Year 10
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CampFire is the first Drawing Toolkit collection: a classroom-tested range of Visual Arts and Media Arts units that helps students observe closely, draw with growing confidence, learn from artists and create meaningful artworks.
Each year-level unit provides approximately one school term of connected learning, without requiring you to plan everything from scratch.
Approximately 10 weeks | Ready-to-teach PDFs | Australian Curriculum v9 planning support | Classroom-tested
Why this Drawing Toolkit works
Art planning should not consume your weekend
When you teach several year levels, the challenge is not finding one more art activity. It is knowing what to teach next, how to build skills over time and how to connect short lessons with meaningful art-making.
The Drawing Toolkit provides a clear year-level pathway while leaving room for your own teaching style, classroom needs and creative decisions.
Students learn to:
✓ observe carefully
✓ draw with growing confidence
✓ learn from artists and artworks
✓ apply their skills through hands-on and digital artworks
✓ discuss, reflect on and present their creative choices
Less scrambling. More purposeful art-making. More time to teach.
Overwhelmed with Planning Art?
Hi, I’m Sylvia.
I have been a primary teacher for more than 20 years and an F–12 Visual Arts specialist for 10 years. I know what it is like to plan for many year levels, search for genuine progression and spend Sunday night preparing another week of lessons.
I also know what it is like to spend your own money on resources, hoping they will work with real students and real classroom timetables.
I created the Drawing Toolkit because I wanted a clear, practical pathway that helped students build genuine skills while still allowing teachers and students to be creative.
CampFire is the approach I use in my own classroom. It is structured enough to guide the learning, but flexible enough to suit different students, materials and teaching situations.
If you teach one year level or many and want a calmer pathway through the term, CampFire was made for you.
Sylvia 🌻
How the Drawing Toolkit works
Each CampFire year-level unit supports approximately one school term.
Students revisit Line & Shape through:
✓ short Core Skills drawing lessons
✓ artist and artwork learning
✓ short quizzes
✓ hands-on Studio Work projects
✓ guided digital making
✓ discussion, reflection and presentation
Students are not expected to create a polished artwork after one demonstration. They practise, revisit and apply their learning in different ways throughout the term.
Short instruction can sit alongside longer project work, allowing students to continue at different paces while the class keeps moving forward.
The result is a practical teaching rhythm that fits real Art classrooms.
What’s Inside the Drawing Toolkit?
A connected Line & Shape pathway for one year level, with the teaching resources and planning support you need for approximately one school term.
Ready-to-Teach Slides
A 10-part Core Skills sequence with short drawing activities, artist learning, quizzes and reflection tasks.
Digital Making
A guided Media Arts activity that extends Line & Shape learning using Procreate on iPad.
Studio Work Projects
Four connected projects for students to apply their learning through hands-on and digital art-making.
Teacher Guide
Curriculum planning, artist links, quiz answers, project directions, reflections and resources.
What others say . . .
ENJOYABLE
Sylvia has a unique blend of professional expertise, the ability to motivate and at the same time make the whole experience enjoyable.
School Teacher
EXCITED
I am really excited about what I Love to Teach has to offer. It’s a real way to support us in our busy and often overworked occupation.
Early Years Teacher
Inspirational
I have found Sylvia Skinner a joy to work with: a dedicated teacher and inspirational leader, who raised others’ expectations of their abilities
Head Teacher
Want to see inside CampFire Drawing Toolkits?
Free Year 1, Year 5 and Year 10 mini-lesson samplers are coming soon. Try a short Line & Shape lesson and see how the learning develops from junior primary through upper primary to secondary.
Join The Drop to be notified when the samplers are ready.
CampFire: Line and Shape
Ready-to-teach Visual Arts and Media Arts units for Foundation to Year 10
Each CampFire year-level unit provides approximately 10 weeks of connected Line & Shape learning, including Core Skills lessons, artist learning, quizzes, Studio Work, digital making, reflection support and a year-level Teacher Guide.
Choose only the year level or levels you teach.
CampFire units are coming soon.
FREE – Year 3 and 8 sampler
$19.95 – Foundation
$19.95 – Grade 1
$19.95 – Grade 2
$19.95 – Grade 3
$19.95 – Grade 4
$19.95 – Grade 5
$19.95 – Grade 6
$19.95 – Grade 7
$19.95 – Grade 8
$19.95 – Grade 9
$19.95 – Grade 10
Got Some Questions?
A Final Word . . .
The Drawing Toolkit was created by a practising Australian Art teacher who understands real classrooms, limited preparation time and the challenge of teaching many year levels.
CampFire gives you a calm, ready-to-teach pathway into Line & Shape. It helps students build confidence through observation, practice, artist learning, meaningful art-making and reflection.
You do not need another folder of disconnected activities. You need a clear place to begin and a pathway you can continue using.
Whether you teach one year level or many, CampFire is designed to make Art feel purposeful, manageable and enjoyable again.
CampFire is coming soon.
Join The Drop to receive free teaching resources and be notified when the CampFire units and mini-lesson samplers are ready.
