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

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Investigate, describe and model some of the special ways of providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to other pupils in the school

  • School Pictograms

    School Pictograms

    Explore how to count and record the numbers of different pieces of school equipment that can be found in trays stored around the classroom

  • Listening Skills

    Listening Skills

    Develop and refine listening skills when practising how to follow commands and instructions when playing games and role-playing actions

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school