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Easter Flower Baskets
This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to explore and model how to shape and decorate the net of a cube with special shapes to make an Easter basket that can hold some chocolate eggs.
The class can practise using a range of materials to make different flowers to decorate the outside of their baskets to represent new life that grows during the spring.
Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and model how to shape and decorate the net of a cube with special shapes to make an Easter basket that can hold some chocolate eggs
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to select and define vocabulary words that can be used to describe flowers that grow in the spring, a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions about how to design and make an Easter decoration and templates to shape and decorate the net of a cube shape to make an Easter basket that can hold some chocolate eggs.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to shape and decorate the net of a cube shape to make an Easter basket that can hold some chocolate eggs.
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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