There's nothing like experimenting with colour and paint when you're a child. They can show how you see the world by making a picture of what's around them or communicating how they feel, by using lines, shapes and textures to make a design. Children feed their imagination through art and design. They study different sorts of art work, from murals to sculptures, and learn how art, craft and design can enrich their lives in many different ways.

Children are taught to:

• explore and develop ideas, by collecting visual and other information in a sketchbook, and choosing which ideas they want to develop

• mix different materials, tools and techniques (for example, using dyeing, printing and embroidery to create a textile) to achieve effects

• review their own and others' work, saying what they think and feel about it

• combine colour, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, form and space

• investigate the roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers in different times and cultures.

* Art and design includes craft.