Special Topics : Wizard’s Beard


This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to shape and combine paper and other materials to produce a picture decoration of a Halloween character. The class can describe some of the special techniques that they can use when working creatively with different materials.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to shape and combine paper and other materials to produce a picture decoration of a Halloween character

Learning Objectives

Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. Develop art and design techniques in using form and space.

Learning Outcomes

I can combine and shape materials to make a decoration on a specific theme. I can select effective techniques to create the form and shape of an object.

Shaping Materials

Display posters to help the children explain how to shape and combine a range of different materials when producing artwork on a specific theme

Wizard’s Beard Instructions

Shared reading text to help the children follow a set of instructions about how to shape and combine a range of different materials when producing artwork on a specific theme

Wizard’s Beard Shape

Template to help the children practise cutting and shaping paper and other materials to produce a picture of a Halloween character [enlarge to A3]

Wizard’s Beard Shapes

Templates to help the children practise cutting and shaping paper and other materials to produce a picture of a Halloween character [enlarge to A3]

Wizard’s Beard

Interactive activity to help the children shape and combine paper and other materials to produce a picture decoration of a Halloween character

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to shape and combine paper and other materials to produce a picture decoration of a Halloween character

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