Festive Cards

This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to combine and shape different materials to produce a range of festive cards to celebrate the Christmas season. The class can use layering, collage and printing techniques to produce the different card designs.

3D Christmas Cards
Design and produce three dimensional designs for a range of Christmas cards using layers of different decorated festive shapes

Christmas Card Halves
Model how to select and use halves of different special shapes to make a range of festive cards to send to family and friends to celebrate Christmas

Snowflake Cards
Practise selecting and printing patterns of different shapes to decorate the front of festive Christmas cards to send to family and friends
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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