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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Equal Groups
Explore and record how to divide numbers of different groups of things into matching equal groups of two, three and four
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Food Lists
Explain and model how to punctuate sentences correctly using commas to indicate and list foods that can be eaten for different meals and occasions
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Ship Sounds
Select, compose and play some of the different sounds using high and low pitches that can be made by ships and boats when at sea and in harbours
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Addition Bonds and Sums
Practise using different mental and informal written calculations to add pairs of one and two digit numbers using concrete objects and diagrams to support calculations