Teach KS2 history through art, with no planning needed.

Bring Stone Age caves, Egyptian pharaohs, Roman villas and Tudor courts to life. This ready-to-teach pack gives you six complete art lessons, each linked to the KS2 history curriculum, plus matching slides to display on your board. Open it, print it and teach.

What’s included

15-page editable Word teacher pack (DOCX)
15 editable PowerPoint slides (PPTX), with teacher notes in the speaker notes

Six projects, one for each topic:

Stone Age: cave art with chalk and charcoal
Ancient Egypt: tea-stained hieroglyph papyrus with a cartouche
Ancient Greece: black-figure pottery with scratch-through (sgraffito) details
Romans: paper mosaics
Anglo-Saxons and Vikings: illuminated letters, interlace patterns and symmetrical shields
Tudors: portraits with face proportions, shading and collage

Every lesson includes
Curriculum link and a “big question” to hook pupils
Key history facts and vocabulary
Materials list
Art techniques explained simply, so you can model them with confidence
Clear step-by-step teacher instructions
SEN differentiation with practical adaptations for fine motor, sensory and processing needs
Extension ideas for early finishers that deepen the history as well as the art
Pupil success criteria

Bonus pages
Whole-class SEN and inclusion toolkit
Lesson-planning overview table
Printable class assessment grid

Perfect for
Class teachers, supply teachers, art leads, non-specialists, home educators and tutors working with Years 3 to 6 (ages 7 to 11). You can teach the projects in any order alongside your history topic.