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Areas of Learning:
Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Creative Development and Knowledge
and Understanding of the World.
Context: The children had discussed their Christmas trees
at home and talked about the sort of tree decorations they liked.
Learning Intentions: To talk about and recogise the ways
that Christians celebrate Christmas (PSED). To select colours and tools
in a simple paint program (KUW).
To choose colours and tools for a purpose (CD).
Success Criteria : I
know /can use different
different tools and colours to decorate a Christmas tree.
Key Vocabulary: festival, celebrate, Christmas, pattern,
colour, palette, tool, mouse, click, paintbrush, size, undo, print, tinsel,
lights, baubles, stars.
(teacher directed)
(teacher directed)
(teacher initiated)
You
will need: simple paint program.
Show the class
the empty tree in your Paint program. Discuss how we can decorate a Christmas
tree on the computer.
Demonstrate choosing tools and colours to decorate the tree. Discuss
how different tools work better for different decorations.
Click here to download template: 
Christmas
tree template (right click on this link to save on your computer).
In talking
pairs, ask the children to plan the tools and colours that they are going
to use to decorate their trees:
What decorations do we want on our tree?
Which tools shall we use to make those decorations?
What colours shall we use to decorate our trees?
Activity
one:
You will need: small artificial/real Christmas
tree, a box of decorations.
Set up a small real/artificial Christmas tree in the classroom. Give children
a selection of decorations in a box. Ask children to take turns to decorate
a real tree.
Activity two:
You will need: simple paint program.
Give children the opportunity to create a picture of the real tree
in the Paint program.
Thinking Questions:
What
decorations have you put on your tree?
Which tool did you use to make the tinsel?
How did you make the baubles? What shapes are they?
Would you add anything else to your Christmas tree?
How is decorating a tree on the computer different to decorating a real
tree?
