Year 6 - Art and design
Creating templates for fabric from drawings
War and conflict in art: textiles
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Unit Summary
This unit can be linked with pupils' studies in other curriculum areas on World Wars. They will draw from observation and investigate how artists have responded to war and conflict through textiles, before using their personal ideas of conflict to create an appliqué panel.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create your own templates from a drawing.
Key Notes
- Templates can be used to cut the right size and shape of fabric for appliqué.
- To avoid wasting fabric, an artist can pin templates to the edge of the fabric.
- Pinning the template to fabric helps keep it in place while the artist traces or cuts around it.
Vocabulary To Learn
- appliqué: where pieces of fabric are cut into shapes and then sewn onto another fabric
- template: a shape or pattern you can trace around
- trace: to copy the shape or outline of something by drawing around it
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Templates do not need to be pinned to fabric.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Templates can be used to cut the right size and shape of fabric for appliqué. To avoid wasting fabric, an artist can pin templates to the edge of the fabric.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'appliqué'
where pieces of fabric are cut into shapes and then sewn onto another fabric.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Templates do not need to be pinned to fabric. Correction: Remind children that pinning before cutting allows you to adjust the placement of your templates.
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