Home > Special Topics > Christmas Tree Ornaments
Cuboid Tree Decorations
This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to select and combine range of different materials to produce a hanging tree decoration in the shape of a cuboid decorated with shape patterns or illustrations.
The class can explain and model some of the techniques that can be used to manipulate materials when making a decoration to celebrate Christmas.
Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and combine range of different materials to produce a hanging tree decoration in the shape of a cuboid decorated with shape patterns or illustrations
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the shapes that can be used to make Christmas presents and templates to select and combine range of different materials to produce a hanging tree decoration in the shape of a cuboid (enlarge to A3).
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to combine range of different materials to produce a hanging tree decoration in the shape of a cuboid.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to use different modelling techniques when shaping and combining materials to create Christmas tree ornaments. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
-
Letter Strings Word Groups
Explore how to identify, list and match some groups of words that can be spelt with common letter strings
-
Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
-
Word Matching
Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters
-
Counting Back
Practise using the number technique of counting back to solve and complete a range of abstract and contextual subtraction calculations