Christmas Stockings
This art and design teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to create and decorate hanging stockings to hold Christmas presents using different types of shapes, colours and patterns.
The class can identify, name and describe some of the different shapes that could be used to decorate their stockings to display in a family home for Christmas.
Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to create and decorate hanging stockings to hold Christmas presents using different types of shapes, colours and patterns
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different shapes, colours and patterns that might feature on pairs of socks, a worksheet to select and record patterns of shapes that could be used to decorate a Christmas stocking and a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions about how to make a stocking display ornament.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to create and decorate hanging stockings to hold Christmas presents using different types of shapes, colours and patterns.
This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to practise combining different shapes and materials to make a range of decorations to display in a family home at Christmas. 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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