Lesson Five – Cupcake Designs

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and use a range of shapes to create different icing designs when making a selection of cupcakes to sell to customers eating in a cafe.
The class can practise using tools to measure, mark and cut combinations of shapes which can be used to make each design picture to decorate the top of a cupcake.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and use a range of shapes to create different icing designs when making a selection of cupcakes to sell to customers eating in a cafe
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes that have been used on different cupcake designs and templates to help select and record shapes that can be used to create different icing designs for cupcakes to sell in a cafe.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a range of shapes to create different icing designs for cupcakes to sell in a cafe.
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to select and combine different ingredients to design and make a range of foods including sandwiches and cakes that can be sold in café in a city 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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