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Classes: Infants

|Strand |Objective |Stimulus |Activity |

|Drawing |Make drawings based on vividly recalled feelings, real and |A favourite Christmas Story, or poem. |Draw using various materials and media, ‘Christmas Morning’, ‘Look what I|

| |imaginative experiences and stories, p.18 | |got from Santa’, A trip to Granny’s, My baby’s toy’ etc. |

|Paint and Colour |Discover colour, pattern and rhythm in colourful objects, |Christmas decorations, discuss the colourful |Place a group of decorations in front of the children. Ask the children |

| |p.19 |tinsel, glitter etc. |to experiment and paint freely in the colours they see. Add glitter for |

| | | |effect when dry. |

|Print |Use as variety of print-making techniques, p.20 |Say together all you Christmas poems and rhymes: |Make a thumb and finger print based on some of you poems, rhymes and |

| | |sing your Christmas songs. |songs. Choose a coloured piece of paper to work on. Add glitter when |

| | | |dry, or sugar as snow. |

|Clay |Make a clay form and manipulate it to suggest a subject, |Read any Christmas story. |Make figures and objects suggested by the story, Santa’s sleigh, Santa’s |

| |p.21 | |reindeer asleep in the snow, a snowwoman, snowballs, Christmas hamper and|

| | | |goodies inside, leave to dry, paint. |

|Construction |Make imaginative structures, p. 22 |Examine an advent calendar, talk about the way |Make a Christmas card, by tearing up coloured papers and sticking them |

| | |the windows open |down to make a design to decorate your Christmas card. Write a greeting. |

|Fabric and Fibre |Invent a costume, p.23 |Christmas cards that show the nativity scene, |Make costumes for your class nativity play, carol service or concert; use|

| | |talk about the clothes Mary and Joseph wear. |paper, tinfoil, crepe, tear, pin and cello-tape together. Take a photo. |

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Classes: First and Second

|Strand |Objective |Stimulus |Activity |

|Drawing |Draw from observation, p.30 |Collection of Christmas tree decorations, talk |Draw a selection of these grouped together, use a variety of drawing |

| | |about the shapes, colours, patterns etc. |materials, chalk pastels, oil pastels on coloured paper, store in your |

| | | |portfolio |

|Paint and Colour |Explore the relationship between how things feel and how |Make a collection of fabrics that look and feel |Choose a fabric: now paint the colours and the textures of the fabric. |

| |they look, p.32 |right for decorating a Christmas Ball Gown. |The children add texture in the form of sugar, sawdust, lentils, etc. to |

| | | |their paint, in order to show the ‘texture’ of the fabric. |

|Print |Use a variety of print-making techniques to make theme based|Bring in off cuts from your Christmas wrappings. |Create a simple Christmas design based on the wrapping paper, cut it out |

| |or non-representational prints, p.34 |Look at the designs on the paper. |as a stencil. Sponge paint around the design to create a print. Repeat. |

|Clay |Experiment with and develop line, shape, texture and pattern|Go on a nature walk: gather seasonal pinecones, |Make a clay slab. Using the material from your nature walk, incise and |

| |in clay, p.36 |and pine needles and other evergreen vegetation. |decorate your slab to illustrate the theme of Christmas. Write the date |

| | | |on your slab as a keepsake. |

|Construction |Make imaginative structures, p.38 |Read a story about Santa’s workshop and the |Working in groups of three/four, design and make a model of Santa’s |

| | |elves. Talk about all the rooms in the Workshop. |Workshop. Imagine the roof is off, so we can see inside. Make your walls|

| | | |out of paper: stick together. |

|Fabric and Fibre |Make small inventive pieces with fabric and fibre, p.40 |Bring in your own Christmas Stocking which you |Make a toy size Christmas stocking for your favourite doll or soft toy, |

| | |hang up for Santa, examine how they are made, |so they too can hang up a stocking! Cut and stick fabric together to make|

| | |look at the patterns. |the shape, attach festive designs. |

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Classes: Third and Fourth

|Strand |Objective |Stimulus |Activity |

|Drawing |Express his/her imaginative life and interpret themes using |Class discussion on the theme of Christmas in |Use a variety of media, charcoal, chalks, oil pastels, and 6B pencils to |

| |inventive pattern and detail, p.48 |fantastical terms; Christmas underground, |illustrate your imagined scene. Use A3 or A2 sized paper. Imagine big! |

| | |Christmas in outer space, etc. | |

|Paint and Colour |Paint from observation, p.50. |Collect photographs or pictures of Christmas |Paint your own picture of a Christmas action scene, ‘Pulling the |

| | |parties. Examine the figures in celebratory mood.|Christmas cracker’ ‘Going carol singing’ etc. |

|Print |Use a widening range of print making techniques to make a |Collection of Christmas cards, used or new. Look |Make monoprints on the theme of Christmas: use A5 size paper. Choose |

| |theme-based or non-representational prints, p.52. |at the use of line in the card. |your favourite as a cover for a Christmas card. Trim and attach. |

|Clay |Make sturdy figures in clay using the medium imaginatively |Make a collection of Santa figures, plastic |Make a 3D model of Santa exhausted after his Christmas Eve’s adventure; |

| |and with expressive detail, p.54 |Santa’s, ceramic, wooden etc. Discuss. |he may be snoozing in his chair, or sound asleep. Paint and take home as|

| | | |a gift. |

|Construction |Make drawings from observation to analyse the structures of |Models Santa’s workshop, (see level 2) pinecones,|Examine the structure and balance, which you see in the natural objects, |

| |buildings and the natural structure of plants, p.56 |holly and ivy, gathered on a nature walk. |use coloured pencils. Draw Santa’s workshop from above. |

|Fabric and Fibre |Make small inventive pieces, p.58. |Gather a selection of fabrics and fibres in reds,|Make a small weaving in Christmas colours, weave in lurex threads, |

| | |greens, whites, silver, gold, |tinsel: attach any seasonal decorative item; it may be a part of a |

| | | |Christmas tree decoration. Fix top to a dowel rod, fringe the bottom in |

| | | |wool and tinsel. |

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Classes: Fifth and Sixth

|Strand |Objective |Stimulus |Activity |

|Drawing |Discover how line can convey movement, p.66 |Song, Jingle Bells, ‘Dashing through the snow…’ |Draw a series of scenes as a storyboard for a cartoon version of the |

| | |O’er the fields we go laughing all the way…’ etc.|well-known Christmas jingle. Use a variety of materials and different |

| | | |papers. Show the action by use of line. |

|Paint and Colour |Make paintings based on recalled feelings and experiences |Close your eyes and recall happy Christmas |Imagine you are a fly on the wall, or that you have a bird’s eye view of |

| |and discover ways of achieving spatial effects, p.68 |events. |the scene: paint the picture in detail. Consider overlapping shapes. |

|Print |Make prints for functional uses, p.70 |Gather a selection of Christmas cards. Display |Work in groups. Design and print a run of Christmas cards. Cut out a |

| | |and explore their construction. Look for |stencil design, or make a relief print, to mass-produce your cards. Over |

| | |simplicity of design. |print a second colour. Buy envelopes and post your unique hand-made |

| | | |greeting card. |

|Clay |Explore some of the essential characteristics of |Have a good look at the school crib. Look at the |Model your very own crib figures. Leave then to dry and add colour if you|

| |three-dimensional work, p.72 |crib in the local church, cribs in books, etc. |wish. Incise you name and the date on the side, for posterity. |

|Construction |Make imaginative structures, p. 74 |Compile a collection of illustrations or models |Work in groups of three’s or four’s create your own crib structure in |

| | |of cribs. |which to place your own clay figures. Photograph when completed. |

|Fabric and Fibre |Make small inventive pieces in fabric and fibre, p.76. |Illustrations of Christmas, as seen in cards, |Create a Christmas Banner on fabric. Refer to your montage. Use fabric |

| | |books, catalogues, advertisements, etc. Make a |paints, fabric dyes and |

| | |montage of favourite images. |markers to complete the banner. Trim the edges and attach a dowel for |

| | | |hanging. |

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