Snowflake Cards

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise selecting and printing patterns of different shapes to decorate the front of festive Christmas cards to send to family and friends.
The class can identify and describe the faces that can be seen on different 3D shapes which can be used when printing the snowflake designs.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and printing patterns of different shapes to decorate the front of festive Christmas cards to send to family and friends
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different shapes that can be seen on a range of snowflakes and templates to select and print a range of snowflake designs using the faces of different 3D shapes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to print patterns of different shapes to decorate the front 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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