This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain how to design and make a Christmas decoration by combining shapes and materials to produce a 3D star ornament.

The class can identify and describe the colours, shapes and patterns seen on other Christmas decorations to use when developing their own artwork of a star hanging ornament.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain how to design and make a Christmas decoration by combining shapes and materials to produce a 3D star model

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes, colours and patterns used on Christmas ornaments, a shared text to follow a set of instructions about how to design and make a Christmas ornament and a template to select and combine materials to make a hanging star Christmas decoration.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to design and make a Christmas decoration by combining shapes and materials to produce a 3D star model.

This lesson is part of an art an design scheme of work to get the children to practise using a range of materials and art techniques to create models of different decorations that can be used to celebrate Christmas. 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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