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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Farm Toys
Design and make different toys that include a movement mechanism to illustrate things found and used on a farm
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Farm Puppet
Explore how to design and make a puppet of a farmer using a movement mechanism to illustrate the matching actions of the character
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Spinning Toy
Investigate how to build a model of a toy that includes rotational movements to show some of the different actions that might happen on a farm
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Farm Animals
Design and build a model of a toy that uses card linkages to create a range of different movements to represent actions of an animal that lives on a farm