Lesson Four – T-shirt Printing

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore and test different ways of printing shapes and patterns on fabric to represent occasions and events to use on example t-shirts.

The class can identify and define special vocabulary words that can be used to describe the shapes used in each t-shirt pattern to match a special occasion or event.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and test different ways of printing shapes and patterns on fabric to represent occasions and events to use on example t-shirts

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes used on different t-shirts to represent occasions and events and a template to select and record a pattern of shapes before printing on fabric materials using paint [enlarge to A3].

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and test different ways of printing shapes and patterns on fabric to represent occasions and events.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to select and combine a range of different shapes, colours and patterns that can be used to design and print a t-shirt for a specific function or event. 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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