Valentine Prints
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and practise some of the different ways of printing the shape of heart on a card to give to someone special to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
The class can identify and model how to continue and complete repeating patterns of Valentine shapes to use when creating the design to decorate the front of a card.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and practise some of the different ways of printing the shape of heart on a card to give to someone special to celebrate Valentine’s Day
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the shapes that can be used to complete repeating patterns and templates to produce cards by printing repeating patterns of shapes on the theme of Valentine’s Day (enlarge to A3).
The interactive presentation can be used to explore different ways of printing the shape of heart on a card to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to shape, colour and combine a range of different materials to produce shapes representing themes related to Valentine’s Day. 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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