Exploring how shapes and negative spaces can be represented by three dimensional forms. Manipulating a range of materials, children learn ways to join and create free-standing structures inspired by the work of Anthony Caro.

Learning Outcomes:

• Try out different ways to make card shapes three dimensional, e.g. folding and curving the card or joining the flat shapes together.
• Make a structure that holds its 3D shape.
• Explain in simple terms the difference between 2D and 3D art.
• Combine shapes together to make an interesting free-standing sculpture.
• Try out more than one way to create joins between shapes.
• Identify familiar 2D shapes in photographs.
• Identify shapes in the negative space between objects.
• Draw a cardboard model from different angles, focusing on shapes in the positive and negative space to achieve an abstract effect.
• Plan an abstract sculpture based on play equipment.
• Show that they have learned how to shape materials in more than one way (e.g. by folding and rolling).
• Choose appropriate methods for joining elements in their sculptures.
• Show that they have thought about how to improve their sculptures and made choices about what to add.
• Work cooperatively in pairs to add detail to their artwork.