Valentine Boxes
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special.
The class can explain and model some of the special techniques that can be used when working with materials to produce shapes to decorate the outside of their boxes.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify 3D shapes that have been formed from different nets and templates to fold nets to produce 3D shapes to use as boxes for Valentine gifts and decorate the outside of the gift boxes using a selection of themed shapes.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use nets of cube and cuboid shapes to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate and practise different techniques to shape and combine materials when producing models to make gifts to give to someone special for 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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