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Art and design

Lesson 5: Craft and Design 2: Sock puppets

Pupils transform an unwanted, old sock into a cat 'monster' using googly eyes, card, pens and fabric

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Before the lesson

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Learning objective

  • To use different materials to make a three-dimensional artwork

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught:

  • To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
  • To improve their mastery of Art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpturewith a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]

Success criteria

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Cross-curricular links

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Attention grabber

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Main event

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Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: A template for the features can be used by children who are not confident to create their own creature.

 

Pupils working at greater depth: Encourage pupils to be creative in their use of the materials. Those that can stitch/sew could add patterns to the body of the sock character with coloured thread

Wrapping up

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Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

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Vocabulary

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In this unit

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Simon Chubb,  
Art and Design specialist
Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist. He uses his 25 years of experience to teach art in schools and has his own workshop business ‘Scartoons’ in which children create comic characters and strips. Simon is a member of The…
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