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Lesson 4: Craft: Soap sculptures (Original scheme)

Referring to the works of Barbara Hepworth, children use a variety of tools to carve a piece of soap into a sculpture

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Before the lesson

Learning objective

To create a small scale sculpture

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

Improve their mastery of Art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May need help in selecting the appropriate tools so teacher visual demos are very important.

Pupils working at greater depth: Can confidently use an unfamiliar material and select appropriate tools and techniques to create their carving, with detail.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Susan Coles,

Art and Design specialist

Susan is an educator, artist and an active advocate and well-known champion of art craft and design education. Her roles include: Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Art, Craft, Design Education, Past President, and now Honorary Fellow of the…

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