Lesson Six – Garden Pots

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using clay materials to sculpt and shape some coil shaped pots that can be used to display a range of different flowers growing in a garden location.

The class can identify and model some of the different tools and techniques that they can use when working with clay to make the pot shapes to hold a display of flowers.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using clay materials to sculpt and shape some coil shaped pots that can be used to display a range of different flowers growing in a garden location

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the best shapes that can be used to make a pot to hold flowers and a worksheet to practise moulding different shapes using plasticine as preparation for working in clay to make a flower pot.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use clay materials to sculpt coil shaped pots that can be used to display garden flowers.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to select and use different materials to mould and shape sculptures representing a range of artefacts that might be used in a family garden location 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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