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Festive Decorations

This art and design scheme of work for all year groups gets the children to investigate how to shape and combine different materials to produce a selection of decorations to celebrate the festive season. The class can describe how other decorations have been made to use some of the ideas in their own artwork.

Santa’s Reindeer

Practise cutting and shaping different types of paper and other materials to produce a picture of one of Santa’s reindeer for a Christmas decoration

Santa’s Beard

Practise cutting and shaping different types of paper and other materials to produce a picture of Santa Claus for a Christmas decoration

Advent Boxes

Select and shape a range of different materials to make a set of cube shaped decorations that can be used to count down to Christmas

Christmas Wall Trees

Practise shaping and combining a selection of different materials to produce a 3D decoration of a Christmas tree that can be displayed on the classroom wall

Bottle Candles

Combine and shape a range of different materials to create a table top candle decoration to celebrate the festive seasons

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