Christmas Card Halves
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to 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.
The class can identify and show how different shapes can be divided into a matching pairs of equivalent halves to utilise when making a card for Christmas.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to make Christmas cards using halves of different festive shapes and templates to create a Christmas card using halves of matching shapes as the front illustration.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use halves of different shapes to make fa range of festive Christmas cards.
This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to combine and shape different materials to produce a range of festive cards to celebrate the Christmas season. 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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