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Christmas Presents Chains

This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to select and use materials to create models of Christmas presents to use as part of a chain decoration to display in the classroom.

The class can identify and describe some of the shapes, colours and patterns used on other decorations to develop their own artwork for a classroom Christmas display.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use materials to create models of Christmas presents to use as part of a chain decoration to display in the classroom

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions to create models of Christmas presents to use as part of a class decoration, a template to use as the base for a Christmas decoration to display in the classroom [enlarge to A3] and a shape word bank to select and decorate shapes to add to the Christmas decoration.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use materials to create models of Christmas presents to use as part of a class decoration.

This lesson can support development in working with a range of materials to produce artwork on a specific theme. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.

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