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Easter Window Cards

This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to investigate how to create art silhouettes showing different scenes from the Easter story to display on the front of cards to celebrate this time of the year.

The class can explain how to shape and combine materials to produce scenes that can depict the sequence of events when Jesus was captured and crucified by the Romans.

Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to create art silhouettes showing different scenes from the Easter story to display on the front of cards to celebrate this time of the year

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify the sequence of events in the Easter story, a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions to make an Easter decoration, a set of cards to select events from the Easter story to use as the focus for artwork and templates to create art silhouettes showing scenes from the Easter story to display on the front of cards.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to show scenes from the Easter story to display on the front of cards to celebrate this time of year.

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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