An iPad drawing and painting app with layers, undo, a wide range of brushes and time-lapse replay of how a piece was made.

Creative Amplify

Grade 6 weekly observation sketches reviewed through Procreate's time-lapse replay

Grade 6 (Year 7, age 11 to 12) · 180 min · 1 iPad per student plus stylus

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Over half a term, each student makes one observation drawing a week in Procreate and watches its time-lapse replay to see how they built it.

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Grade 7 'sense of place' collage in Canva with a recorded soundscape

Grade 7 (Year 8, age 12 to 13) · 100 min · 1 iPad per student plus stylus and headphones

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Each student builds a Canva collage about a place in school from three photographs, two of their own drawings and a 20-second sound recording of that place.

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Grade 8 Fauvist harbour scene with rival colour schemes on Procreate layers

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 60 min · 1 iPad per student plus stylus

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Each student paints a harbour scene after André Derain, testing a natural and a Fauvist colour scheme on separate layers before choosing one.

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Grade 11 Procreate painting that changes each day of the summer show by visitors' votes

Grade 11 (Year 12, age 16 to 17) · 180 min · 1 iPad per student, plus a screen at the show

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During the summer show, each student duplicates their Procreate painting every day and paints two rival next stages from the same point, visitors vote between them in Mentimeter, and the winner becomes the base for the next day.

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A-Level show labels on tablets replaying each work's making and rejected versions

Grade 12 (Year 13, age 17 to 18) · 180 min · 1 tablet per student

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For the end-of-year show, each student makes a short video label that plays beside their physical work, showing its making, the compositions they rejected and their own spoken statement.

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Grade 9 festival-wear designs drawn over a croquis layer in Procreate

Grade 9 (Year 10, age 14 to 15) · 60 min · 1 iPad per student plus stylus

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Each student draws three annotated festival-wear designs on separate layers over one locked figure template in Procreate, and tests two colourways for the strongest.

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Creative Replace

Grade 5 still-life of a cut pomegranate painted on one layer in Procreate

Grade 5 (Year 6, age 10 to 11) · 50 min · 1 iPad per child plus stylus

Creative Replace

Each child paints a cut fruit from observation in Procreate, working on a single layer with one brush as they would with poster paint.

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This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.