Christmas Beads
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to combine and manipulate sets of beads to design and make hanging decorations to show a selection of shapes that can represent Christmas.
The class can research colours, shapes and patterns used in other decorations to develop ideas for their own artwork when using beads to make a Christmas shape.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to combine and manipulate sets of beads to design and make hanging decorations to show a selection of shapes that can represent Christmas
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the special shapes used in different Christmas decorations and a template to select a shape to represent Christmas by joining sets of materials to make a decoration.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to combine and shape sets of beads to design and make hanging decorations for a Christmas tree.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to use different materials and art techniques to design and make decorations to celebrate Christmas. 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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Ordering and Changing
Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less
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Changing Hundreds
Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits
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Digit Changes
Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values