Castle Flags

This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and test different methods of printing shapes and patterns for the design of a flag to fly on top of a castle. The class can suggest how to design a flag to match some requested requirements for colours, shapes and patterns.

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

Lesson One : What Flags

Explore, describe and record the range of colours, shapes and patterns that have been used when creating flag designs for different purposes

Lesson Two : Printing Shapes

Investigate and practise some of the different ways of printing repeating patterns using a range of shapes that can be be used for the design of a flag

Lesson Three : Shape Prints

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

Lesson Four : Castle Emblems

Practise printing different shapes and patterns for a castle’s flags by using string to make an impression that can produce a specific flag design

Lesson Five : Flag Design

Investigate and record how to select some special shapes, colours and patterns that can be printed on a flag to make a design representing ideas and themes about a castle

Lesson Six : Castle Flag

Practise printing a range of different shapes and patterns to produce the design for a flag that can be flown on top of a castle representing its inhabitants

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