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Santa’s Reindeer
This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to 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.
The class can explain and model some of the techniques that can be used to manipulate materials when making a decoration to celebrate Christmas in the school.
Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to produce a picture of one of Santa’s reindeer and templates to produce the reindeer picture by cutting and shaping paper and other materials to form a decoration (enlarge to A3).
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to cut and shape paper and other materials to produce a picture of one of Santa’s reindeer.
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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