Lesson Three – Shape Prints

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and test some of the different ways of shaping materials to use when printing the designs for flags that can be flown over a castle.

The class can suggest and model how to produce special shapes to represent different parts of a castle such as the battlements or portcullis to use when creating the flag designs.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and test some of the different ways of shaping materials to use when printing the designs for flags that can be flown over a castle

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe pairs of shapes that have been combined to make a new shape and a set of cards to select a range of different shapes that can be used when printing the designs for castle flags.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and test different ways of shaping materials to use when printing the designs for flags.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to explore and test different methods of printing shapes and patterns that can be used to make the design for a flag to fly on top of a castle. 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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