This art and design scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise combining different shapes and materials to make a range of decorations to display in a family home at Christmas. The class can name and describe shapes that have been used in ornaments to support their own artwork.

Christmas Trees

Select and combine a range of different 2D shapes and festive materials to make a table decoration showing a Christmas tree

Snowman Shapes

Select and use a range of 3D shapes and different materials to design and make a Christmas decorative character of a snowman

Christmas Stockings

Create and decorate hanging stockings to hold Christmas presents using different types of shapes, colours and patterns

  • Owl and the Pussycat

    Owl and the Pussycat

    Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds

  • Story Sentences

    Story Sentences

    Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat

  • Story Map

    Story Map

    Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative

  • Story Journeys

    Story Journeys

    Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale