FREE Mini-Scheme: Creating Paper Toys
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What You Get
What You Get
This free mini-scheme includes ready-to-teach lessons written by experienced primary teachers, giving you a taste of what’s included in a full PlanBee scheme of work.
Each of the lessons within the pack contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
- An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
- An assessment grid to track learning and progress
Curriculum Coverage
Curriculum Coverage
Teacher Benefits
Teacher Benefits
- Reduce your workload and reclaim your time
With everything mapped out and ready to teach, you'll save hours of time and achieve a healthier work-life balance. - Teach with confidence – whatever your experience
Our clear lesson plans and ready-to-go resources make teaching easy for ECTs and supply teachers, while still offering depth and flexibility for experienced practitioners. - No extra research required
Each scheme provides the background knowledge you need, saving you hours of subject prep time. - Engaging, creative lessons your pupils will love
Activities are designed to spark curiosity, encourage discussion and make learning memorable.
This free mini-scheme will give your class the chance to make paper toys. They will practise the important skill of cutting whilst they make easy paper toys. Your children will make a range of different paper toys, and have the opportunity to design and create some mind-boggling optical illusions!
This free series of three ready-to-teach lessons is downloadable. Each lesson comes with engaging slides, detailed teacher planning, worksheets and activity ideas.
Looking for more KS1 DT lessons? Check out PlanBee's wide range of DT schemes of work for Year 1 and 2!
Cutting Skills Printables
The lesson begins by looking at different types of scissors and their uses. Children then discuss the safety aspects of using scissors before putting their skills to the test by cutting straight, zigzag and wavy lines as accurately as they can. This lesson contains cutting skills printables so the children can apply their skills in independent activities where they cut out a range of shapes to create a house, a fruit basket or a slice of pizza! Alternatively, children can practise the skills of folding and cutting through several layers of paper by making animal-themed paper chains.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Cutting Lines Practice Sheet
- Paper Chain Template
Papercraft Animals!
In this papercraft animals lesson, children look at a selection of different paper toys and discuss both how they work and how they can be made. They will either choose a Challenge Card and follow the instructions on it to create their own paper toy. Or alternatively, children can work in small groups and use the set of Zoo Animals Templates to create their very own menagerie!
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Challenge Cards
- Template Cards
- Zoo Animals Templates
Illusions!
In this final lesson of this free making paper toys series, your children will explore an optical illusion toy – the thaumatrope, or ‘wonder turner’. They will find out how they work, as well as how to create one using their own designs. In the alternate activity, children can design and create another optical illusion toy – the Magic Spinning Top.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- This lesson works on developing your children's fine motor skills as they make optical illusion toys.
Medium-Term Plan
Download a free overview to show the full content of this scheme of work.
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Can I edit the resources?
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- If you use an interactive whiteboard, you can use the whiteboard software's 'overlay' mode to annotate on top of PDF. Lots of teachers find this feature really useful in the classroom.
- You can use Adobe Acrobat Pro to edit text or export files into Word or PPT.
- You can use a free PDF editor to make changes to the files.
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