Themes
This unit’s theme is based on the children choosing a storybook character to base their puppet designs on. For guidance on adapting the unit to the theme ‘Easter animals’, please visit the alternative theme page here.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Join fabrics together using pins, staples or glue.
- Design a puppet and use a template.
- Join their two puppets’ faces together as one.
- Decorate a puppet to match their design.
Suggested prior learning
Mechanisms: Making a moving storybook
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Lesson plans
Lesson 1: Joining fabrics
Lesson 2: Designing my puppet
Lesson 3: Making and joining my puppet
Lesson 4: Decorating my puppet
Key skills
- Using a template to
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Key knowledge
- To know that ‘joining
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Key vocabulary
decorate
design
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: DT – Y1 Puppets
This Knowledge organiser captures the key facts and vocabulary from the Year 1 Textiles: Puppets unit, supporting pupils' learning.
D&T Textiles skills videos
Practise appliqué, cross-stitch and more with our updated Textiles skills videos.
Vocabulary display: D&T Y1 Puppets
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Puppets unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
develop pleasure in reading […] by:
- becoming very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics’
Pupils apply their understanding of stories by making puppets based on their favourite characters, integrating creativity with their reading skills in this KS1 puppet-making lesson.
Build on the learning
Textiles: Pouches
Pupils build on their experience of making puppets in KS1 to design and sew a functional pouch using a running stitch.