This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise different ways of shaping and joining a range of materials to produce a Christmas wreath decoration that can be hung on the classroom door.

The class can identify and describe some of the shapes, colours and patterns used on Christmas decorations to develop art and design ideas for their own wreaths.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise different ways of shaping and joining a range of materials to produce a Christmas wreath decoration that can be hung on the classroom door

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and explain how to shape different materials to use in artwork, a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions about how to make a wreath decoration and templates to cut and shape materials to produce a Christmas wreath decoration.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore different ways of shaping a range of materials to produce a Christmas wreath decoration.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to use different materials and art techniques to design and make decorations to celebrate Christmas. 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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