This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate and practise how to combine different materials when making models of flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day.

The class can explain and model how to use different techniques to shape paper, foil and other materials to produce flower petals that can be used to decorate a vase.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and practise how to combine different materials when making models of flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes, colours and sizes of different flowers and templates to produce flowers shapes using coloured and foil paper and write a tag to label their artwork of a flower vase to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to combine materials when making models of flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to shape, colour and combine a range of different materials to produce shapes representing themes related to Valentine’s Day. 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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