Create a silhouette plaque

Art and design

Respond to nocturnal animals through modelling materials

Make a silhouette scene

Sculpture: make a simple clay animal

Create a background using reclaimed materials

Reclaimed materials: finalising a mixed-media piece

Pupils will learn about art made from reclaimed materials. They will explore this theme to make their own animal art in two and three dimensions, applying core art skills and craft techniques.

Reclaimed materials: drawing and sculpture

a shape or outline used to help copy or trace something

What material did we use to make our plaque in this lesson?

Why do we make perforations in the template?

a flat piece made as decoration or artwork

Think about what you could feel with your fingers or see in your playdough.

Roll out the playdough to make a flat slab.

Cut carefully around the template to cut out the shape.

Put the steps in the correct order to make a playdough plaque.

Carefully draw over the lines of a shape.

Which of these objects could you use to create texture in a playdough plaque?

Why do we layer our silhouette onto a background?

Place the template on top of the playdough.

Press textures into the dough to add detail.

Put these steps in the right order to make a playdough plaque with a pattern using a template.

Put these steps in the right order to make a paper silhouette scene.

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Create a silhouette plaque

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.