Lesson video

Hi team, and welcome to another lesson with me, Mrs Garrard.

Now, in today's lesson, we are going to be comparing our appearance with the appearance of somebody else.

I'm going to be using my teddy.

His name is Barnaby.

You might be able to choose somebody in your family or maybe you'll choose one of your toys.

Let me share my screen with you and we'll get started.

So before we do any of our learning, we're going to need to gather some resources.

So the first thing we will do is gather some resources that we'll need to create a model a little bit later on.

Then we're going to look at my appearance, and then we're going to look at my friend, Barnaby's appearance.

And we're go to compare our appearances.

We're going to see what is the same about us and what is different? Then we are going to create our model.

So for this lesson, you are going to need your looking eyes, you're going to have to look really carefully, do some really great observational skills.

We'll use our looking eyes, we'll need our listening ears to follow my instructions.

You might need a mirror to look at yourself, and a teddy, if you want to compare with your teddy.

Maybe you'll choose a family member? And then finally, at the end, to make our model, you'll need some Play-Doh.

I use shop bought Play-Doh, but you can make Play-Doh too, if you want to.

So pause the video here to gather the resources that you'll need to carry on in our lesson.

Come back when you're ready.

Great, now, we're going to look at my appearance.

Let's have a look.

There's me in the middle.

I looked in the mirror and I had a really careful look at myself to see what I looked like, and I noticed that I have blue eyes.

I have long brown hair.

I don't have a fringe.

I have hands.

I have feet.

I'm quite tall, and I have fair skin.

That means the colour of my skin is quite light.

Let's have a look at Barnaby.

Yeah, I noticed, let's have a look at Barnaby, he's here.

I noticed that Barnaby has black eyes.

Do you see them? His eyes are black.

He has short brown fur, he doesn't have hands and feet, he has paws.

He has paws and Barnaby is only small.

So let's compare our appearances.

Mrs. Garrard and Barnaby.

So I have skin, but Barnaby has fur.

I have blue eyes, but Barnaby's eyes were black.

I am tall, but Barnaby is just small.

I have hands and feet.

Can you remember what Barnaby had? He didn't have hands and feet, he had, tell the screen! Oh, he had paws, great job.

Now, it's time to do our creating part of the lesson.

Watch carefully and listen to my instructions.

I have some balls of Play-Doh out in front of me.

I've tried to get the same colours as Barnaby and my skin.

So Barnaby's fur is brown, and my skin is fair, so I tried to use the same colours.

You could try and do that, but it's no big deal if you can't.

It can be quite tricky to get the right kind of Play-Doh.

I'm starting off by making Barnaby.

I'm rolling the Play-Doh into a ball to make his tummy.

You see how I'm using my hands to roll the Play-Doh into a ball shape.

That's going to be his tummy.

Pulling off another piece of Play-Doh to make his head.

Rolling it again between the palms of my hands and adding it on top of his body.

Now, I'm pinching off.

Do you see how I pinched, pinched off a tiny piece of Play-Doh and rolled it in my palm, and between my palm and my finger to make his ear.

And now I'm using the end of a paintbrush to make a hole, to make it look like Barnaby's ear.

Can you see Barnaby's ear shape? I'm going to do that again to make his other ear, because Barnaby's got two ears.

Trying to make Barnaby sit up and he doesn't really want to, he's a bit wobbly.

I add his other ear.

Used the paintbrush again to make the inside of his ear and puts it in place at the top of his head because Barnaby's ears are on the top of his head.

Now, I'm going to make the features of Barnaby's face.

So he'll need a nose and some eyes.

You can see that I'm rolling another ball for his nose.

Now, he needs some arms and legs.

You see how I'm rolling that into kind of a sausage shape to make his legs? Another one, because Barnaby has two legs.

Trying to make them the same length, bit tricky.

He still doesn't want to sit up, does he? He's a bit wobbly.

Now, I'm making his arms. You see how I'm rolling the Play-Doh? One arm, and the second arm, there we go.

Tiny, tiny piece of black Play-Doh to make his nose.

I'm going to use the end of a paintbrush to make some circles for his eyes.

And then I'm using a knife to make his mouth.

You'll have to ask your adult, your parent, or your carer what you could use.

Maybe a knife would not be such a great idea for you.

My knife was quite sharp and it's not okay for you to use sharp knives.

There's Barnaby! Now, it's time to make me.

This could be tricky.

So we're starting off with my body again, kind of a round shape.

Using blue because I quite like blue.

I've got lots of blue clothes.

Okay, now, I'm going to make my head.

So I, once again, I'm rolling the ball of Play-Doh between my palms to make the right shape.

Some brown Play-Doh.

I wonder what I'm going to be using the brown Play-Doh for? Can you guess? Tell the screen if you have an idea.

Oh, I've flattened.

Oh, you think I'm making my hair? I think you might be right.

I have brown hair and it's long.

So I've made a shape to replicate my hair.

Oh, I'm going to fall over.

Now, I need to make my two arms and two legs, just like I made Barnaby's arms and legs.

I'm making some kind of sausage shapes, rolling them between the palms of my hands.

Two arms, now, two legs.

I bet your Play-Doh skills are much better than my Play-Doh skills.

I bet you can make a much better representations of yourself and either your toy or your family member.

What do I need to add next? I need to add some eyes.

Once again, look, can you see I'm using the end of a paintbrush? And then I'm going to make a mouth.

I'm going to use some pink Play-Doh to roll a really thin line and turn it into a mouth.

It fell off, let's try again.

It's a bit fiddly.

And a nose.

And then finished.

Would you like to see a finished picture of my models? There they are.

I bet you could do a much better job than me.

Play-Doh is not one of my best skills.

Can you look carefully at the models though, and see if you can spot some things that are the same and things that are different? Let's start with things that are the same.

We both have two eyes.

We both have noses, but Barnaby's is black and mine is pink.

We both have arms and legs.

And we both have a mouth.

Team, I can't wait to see the creations that you make out of Play-Doh to represent yourself and maybe your teddy or a family member.

If you would like to share your work, you can share your work with Oak National.

If you'd like to do that, you'll have to ask your parent or your carer to share your work for you on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter using the tag @OakNational, and #LearnwithOak, and that way, I'll get to see all your fabulous Play-Doh creations.

It's now time for me to say goodbye.

I hope you've enjoyed the lesson as much as I have.

I hope you're a little bit better at making Play-Doh models than I am.

See you again, next time, team.