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Year 1

Plan and make fabric templates

I can make fabric templates to create a hand puppet.

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Year 1

Plan and make fabric templates

I can make fabric templates to create a hand puppet.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. A fabric template is a shape drawn to help in cutting out.
  2. Fabric templates help cut fabric accurately.
  3. Templates are planned on paper.
  4. Templates are cut out carefully using scissors and then attached to the felt.

Keywords

  • Template - a shape or pattern used to help cut something to the right size

  • Accurate - being very exact, with no mistakes

  • Join - to connect two or more things together

Common misconception

All of the detail of the puppet needs to be added to the template.

The template is the basic outline of the puppet. The extra detail, such as ears, can be added later.


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Small pegs or clothes pegs could be used instead of fabric clips, although they are usually bigger. Pupils should be reminded to not add sew holes around the base of the felt where it will remain open to form a hand puppet.
Teacher tip

Equipment

Range of templates, scissors, felt, fabric clips, black felt pens.

Content guidance

  • Risk assessment required - equipment

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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Prior knowledge starter quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
Match the words to the correct meaning.
Correct Answer:sketch,a quick drawing based on what you can see

a quick drawing based on what you can see

Correct Answer:ideas,a suggestion

a suggestion

Correct Answer:design,planning how a product will look or work

planning how a product will look or work

Q2.
A design specification ...
describes what a person has to do.
Correct answer: describes what a product has to do.
describes what a animal has to do
Q3.
What do designers do to share their design ideas?
Correct answer: sketch
write
sing
paint
Q4.
What is a material?
Correct answer: what an object is made from
what an object does
what an object sounds like

Assessment exit quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
Match these keywords to the right definition.
Correct Answer:accurate,being very exact, with no mistakes

being very exact, with no mistakes

Correct Answer:template,a shape or pattern used to help cut something the right size

a shape or pattern used to help cut something the right size

Correct Answer:join,to connect two or more things together

to connect two or more things together

Q2.
What is a template?
the colours
the decorations
Correct answer: a shape or pattern
Q3.
What can we use to hold the felt and template together to help us to cut it?
PVA glue
Correct answer: fabric clips
sticky tape
Q4.
Which is the best fabric for making a hand puppet?
hessian
cotton
Correct answer: felt

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