3D Christmas Cards

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to design and produce three dimensional designs for a range of Christmas cards using layers of different decorated festive shapes.

The class can identify and describe shapes used in a range of Christmas ornaments to help select the design for their own Christmas cards to celebrate the festive season.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to design and produce three dimensional designs for a range of Christmas cards using layers of different decorated festive shapes

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe colours, shapes and patterns used on a range of different Christmas ornaments and templates to produce Christmas card designs using layers of different decorated shapes.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to design and produce Christmas card designs using layers of different decorated shapes.

This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to combine and shape different materials to produce a range of festive cards to celebrate the Christmas season. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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