- Year 2
Create a silhouette plaque
I can use a template to create a textured plaque from playdough.
- Year 2
Create a silhouette plaque
I can use a template to create a textured plaque from playdough.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Sometimes artists will use templates to make several copies of the same shape or image, or a single, accurate copy.
- An artist might make perforations to make cutting or tearing easier.
- Artists can go back and make improvements to their plaque by adding to or changing the texture.
Keywords
Template - a shape or outline that you can draw around
Perforations - a line of tiny holes that helps you to cut or tear something more easily
Plaque - a flat shape with writing or a picture
Texture - the feel or appearance of a surface
Common misconception
Once an artwork is finished, artists should never change or improve it.
Remind children that looking at your work and finding ways you could improve it is an important part of being an artist.
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Equipment
Playdough, clay tools, pencils, old brushes, scissors, pegs, other mark-making tools for indents.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is an outline?
Q2.What does it mean to trace something?
Q3.Which of these objects could you use to create texture in a playdough plaque?
Q4.Why do we layer our silhouette onto a background?
Q5.Put these steps in the right order to make a playdough plaque with a pattern using a template.
Q6.Put these steps in the right order to make a paper silhouette scene.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is a template?
Q2.What material did we use to make our plaque in this lesson?
Q3.Why do we make perforations in the template?
Q4.Which of these is an example of texture?
Q5.Think about what you could feel with your fingers or see in your playdough.
the feel or appearance of a surface
a flat piece made as decoration or artwork
small holes in a line