Christmas Models

This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using a range of materials and art techniques to create models of decorations that can be used to celebrate Christmas. The class can describe shapes, patterns and colours used on other decorations to help produce their own artwork.

Snowy Pine Cones
Select, shape and combine a range of natural materials to produce a hanging decoration to display on a Christmas tree

Tree Ornaments
Explain and record how to build collage pictures using a range of different materials to use on Christmas tree decorative ornaments

Star Decorations
Explain how to design and make a Christmas decoration by combining shapes and materials to produce a 3D star model

Santa Claus
Identify and record how to select and combine different materials to build a collage of a character to hang on a Christmas tree
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty