Lesson Five – Fish Designs

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise selecting and adding a range of different patterns and colour shades to complete papier mache fish sculpture models.

The class can suggest and model some of the special brush techniques that can be utilised to create different effects and colours on their fish shapes to make them distinctive and unique.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and adding a range of different patterns and colour shades to complete papier mache fish sculpture models

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes, colours and patterns seen on different fish that live in the sea and a template to select and record designs that can be used when working with paint to decorate a sculpture of a fish.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to add a range of different patterns and colours to complete papier mache fish sculpture models.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to select, combine and shape different materials to design and produce layered sculptures representing fish that live in the sea. 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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