Christmas ‘Post a Hug’. A seasonal, fun art activity, designed to incorporate elements of the primary art curriculum, suitable for the multicultural classroom. Let your students send a virtual hug to those they cannot see or who may be on their own this Christmas with this adaptable seasonal craft. This art and design activity allows children to design and make a stand up greeting card with open hugging arms. It offers teachers a way to include curriculum elements, adding educational value to these seasonal tasks. The number of elements used can be adapted to what is appropriate for the class concerned, offering a very flexible resource in terms of content and age range. The activity requires minimal resources, white A4 card for photocopying, pencils, fine liners/biros, coloured pencils, scissors, envelopes. Post a Hug resource pack includes: PDF template for Post a Hug card PDF template for card inserts, blank and lined. ‘Pattern’ PowerPoint presentation ‘Colour’ PowerPoint presentation PDF step by step photo instructions PDF Teachers notes offering guidance to curriculum use, materials needed and possible session ordering. Curriculum needs that can be met using this resource pack: Elements of art - Using repeating man made patterns to create designs. Studying and using colour combinations/theory to enhance their design. Learning to meet a design criteria. Knowledge of makers/craft skills and transferring this to their own work Self portrait skills Accurate folding and cutting skills. Cross curricular elements could also be added by tying to English, informal letter writing, and community involvement. All images are the property of TheArtTA

A detailed PDF colouring sheet and Chinese lantern making activity for each of the Chinese Zodiac animals, with the option for students to design their own animal motif if desired, make this a flexible resource. Also included an A4 colouring poster featuring the 2024 Year of the Dragon motif. Helpful teachers information included. PDFs included: Teachers notes 12 Happy New Year A4 colouring posters, each featuring a different Zodiac animal insert. Happy New Year colouring poster with blank insert for students to draw their own animal. Chinese Lantern activity featuring base lantern poster and cut out and colour animal motifs for all 12 of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Motifs presented in full single sheets and mixed sheets to allow for choice in using and easy printing. A4 Year of the Dragon poster for 2024 All images are original and the property of TheArtTA

Make it move! This resource provides a unit of work for Design Technology. It combines Design, Art and Technology to enable students to produce a greeting card with moving parts for a chosen celebration. The activity will be spread over several sessions, involving exploring and creating mechanisms in the form of sliders, single lever and linkages and then using this knowledge to design, plan and model their own card, before making a final finished card with moving parts. This resource contains: In PDF format Slide and lever worksheets - black and white and colour options design worksheet analysis worksheet printable photo instructions learning objective printout teachers notes Power point presentation with notes I have used this resource with primary classes from yr2 -yr6 very successfully All images are the property of TheArtTA

This World Oceans Day resource pack is ideal for home learning for any ocean based topic. The pack consists of practical art and craft activities along with a variety of themed page borders for topical writing exercises. Contains: Ocean box theatre. step by step photo instructions with a page of sea creature printables. Junk modelling sea creatures ideas and instructions. photo instructions and examples to make a variety of sea creatures using plastic milk bottles, no glue needed for most models. 3D paper turtle craft. photocopiable sheet to colour, cut out and assemble a turtle. Turtle and jellyfish/plastic bag writing borders Shark writing border World ocean day colouring sheet(also available as free download) Fish colouring sheet (from animal classification pack) Turtle colouring page How to draw a whale.