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Easter Egg Chains

This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to select and combine and range of different materials to create models of Easter Eggs to use as part of a class hanging decoration.

The class can identify and describe some of the shapes, colours and patterns used on Easter egg wrappings to develop their own artwork when producing some example eggs shapes.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and combine and range of different materials to create models of Easter Eggs to use as part of a class hanging decoration

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions about how to make an Easter decoration, a template to select and use materials to create models of Easter eggs to use as part of a class decoration and a shape bank to select some ideas and patterns to use on Easter egg designs.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use materials to create models of Easter Eggs to use as part of a class decoration.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to practise shaping and combining a range of different materials to produce decorations with matching patterns and shapes to celebrate Easter. 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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