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Advent Boxes
This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to 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.
The class can decorate and fold the net of a cube to make a 3D box shape to use as one of the advent decorations that can be stacked to form the shape of a tree.
Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to produce a decorative cube shape, display posters to describe different shapes that can be used to illustrate Christmas themes, a picture bank to select and shape a range of different materials to make a set of decorations that can be used to count down to Christmas and templates to make the shape of a cube from a net and compose a message to place inside the advent boxes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to shape a range of different materials to make a set of decorations that can be used to count down to Christmas.
This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to shape and combine different materials to produce a selection of decorations to celebrate the festive season. 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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