Wash day collage

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory A Day in the Life

Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Learn about changes in living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Art and Design

  • Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

Lesson Planning

Children look at how ‘doing the washing and the washing-up’ has changed over time. They study advantages and disadvantages of modern methods and make a collage picture.

Teaching Outcomes
Organise, and order chronologically, images of washing equipment.
Identify the methods used to wash clothes, dishes and people in different eras.
Create a collage using cut up images.

Children will:

  • Identify methods of washing clothes, dishes and people past and present.
  • Explore collage techniques and abstract art to create a collage using images of domestic technology past and present.

Provided Resources

  • Images for cutting up
  • Images of washing equipment
  • Examples of collage

You Will Need

  • Paper for collage

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.