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

  • Holiday Outings

    Holiday Outings

    Practise devising story boards using word phrases and illustrations to recount some of the special events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday outing

  • Food and Drink Colours

    Food and Drink Colours

    Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals

  • Calendar Days

    Calendar Days

    Identify and record the sequence of the seven days of the week using the correct vocabulary words to describe units of time on a calendar

  • Fantasy Stories

    Fantasy Stories

    Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings