Lesson Four – Pinch Thumb Pot
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to design and make a clay pot adding different patterns and shapes to represent Viking culture and traditions.
The class can practise following a set of instructions about how to mould a piece of clay into a pot shape that can be decorated to represent Viking life in the past.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to design and make a clay pot adding different patterns and shapes to represent Viking culture and traditions
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes and colours used in different patterns and a worksheet to follow a set of instructions to produce a pinch thumb pot using clay when adding patterns and shapes to represent Viking culture and traditions.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to design and make a clay pot adding different patterns to represent Viking culture and traditions.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to develop and refine a range of different art and design techniques when working with clay to make pots that represent Viking culture and traditions. 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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