Themes
This unit’s theme is based on the children choosing a storybook character to base their puppet designs on. For guidance on adapting the unit to the theme ‘Easter animals’, please visit the alternative theme page here.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Join fabrics together using pins, staples or glue.
- Design a puppet and use a template.
- Join their two puppets’ faces together as one.
- Decorate a puppet to match their design.
Suggested prior learning
Mechanisms: Making a moving story book
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Joining fabrics
Lesson 2: Designing my puppet
Lesson 3: Making and joining my puppet
Lesson 4: Decorating my puppet
Key skills
- Using a template to
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Key knowledge
- To know that ‘joining
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Key vocabulary
decorate
design
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Unit resources
Assessment D&T Y1: Puppets
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
This Knowledge organiser captures the key
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D&T Textiles skills videos
Practise appliqué, cross-stitch and more with
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Key vocabulary
Subject resources
D&T Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Design
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National curriculum mapping
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D&T: Progression of pupil skills and knowledge
Progression documents showing how skills and
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Equipment list
A handy spreadsheet allowing you to
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Assessment
Spreadsheet to record teacher assessments against
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Key vocabulary
Vocabulary document that shows key vocabulary
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
develop pleasure in reading […] by:
- becoming very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics’