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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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Valentine Gifts
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
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Valentine Boxes
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
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Valentine Shapes
Investigate and model how to shape, colour and combine a range of different materials to produce shapes representing themes related to Valentine’s Day
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Flower Vase
Investigate and practise how to combine different materials when making models of flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day