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Christmas Wall Trees
This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to 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.
The class can identify and describe some of the shapes, colours and patterns used on other decorations to use when developing their own artwork.
Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to produce a wall tree decoration, display posters to describe shapes and colours used on different Christmas decorations and templates to practise shaping a selection of different materials to produce a 3D decoration of a Christmas tree to display on the classroom wall [enlarge to A3],
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a selection of different materials to produce a 3D decoration of a Christmas tree to display on the classroom wall.
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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