Christmas Shapes

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
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City Counting
Practise counting and recording matching sets of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to illustrate and record some of the special things that can be seen around a city
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House Windows
Count, match and record different numbers of windows that could be seen on houses that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty
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Flat Block
Match and record different numbers of objects that could be seen in flats that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty
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Road Traffic
Count, match and record different numbers of vehicles that could be seen travelling on a road in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty