Cutting stories with paper

Art and design

Create a history map

Clay travellers: figures from the Silk Road

Collage sails: pattern and identity

Made in collaboration with October Gallery, this unit explores how art shares stories across time and place as pupils cut, sculpt and collage maps into textured journeys of movement, exchange, identity and belonging.

Art that travels: stories, land and journeys

a line that goes on without lifting your pencil

She cuts it into long lines that look like waterfalls or curtains.

What happens when a single, careful spiral is cut into flat paper?

Draw continuous lines to guide your cuts.

Fold and twist the paper to build shapes.

Put these steps in the right order to make a paper sculpture with a story.

a picture made by sticking things together

What do we call sometiing that repeats again and again?

using scissors to change the shape of paper

Exit Quiz

What is a continuous line?