Lesson Six – Garden Pots

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise using a range of special techniques to print some different flower shapes and patterns on the outside of garden pots.

The class can explain and model how to combine shapes to produce artwork showing a group of flowers that can be displayed in a garden during the spring season.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using a range of special techniques to print some different flower shapes and patterns on the outside of garden pots

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different flowers that might be seen in a garden and a set of cards to select and produce sets of repeating patterns using a range of different colour shades.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a range of special techniques to print different flower shapes and patterns on garden pots.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and print patterns and shapes to reflect flowers that can grow in family gardens during the spring. 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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