Blog by Tag: Design Technology

After designing our cards, we then made our pop up/sliding Christmas cards carefully using our designs. We were really pleased with how they turned out and evaluated. We thought if we were to make these again, what would we do differently? 

We investigated pop up toys and sliders in books before we thought of which moving part we were going to choose for our Christmas card design.

Over the last half term we have been practising different pop up techniques. Today we have made a moving Christmas picture.

Our final task was to evaluate our pizzas.  We thought about what had gone well and any bits we would change if we made our pizzas again.

At last our pizzas were ready to eat!  They were unusual but very delicious!

Here are our pizzas ready for the oven.  As you can see we made some interesting food choices!

After looking at the ‘Eat Well Plate’, we designed our own pizzas.  We tried to make them as healthy as we could by including lots of fruit and vegetables.  Some of us also included some treats in our designs.  Here are just a few pictures of us making our pizzas.  Be sure to scroll through to see…

Today we made and evaluated our musical instruments to complete our DT topic. 

We used our plans to create our instruments. We helped each other out and had lots of fun. Our instruments all made a sound and some of us even managed to create an instrument that we could change the pitch of, this…

We designed our fruit salads after discussing which healthy foods we should eat and why. We enjoyed chopping up our chosen fruits and trying fruits that we had never tried before! After tasting our fruit salad, using one of the five sense, we evaluated it. Some children had never tried plum…

We designed our fruit salads after discussing which healthy foods we should eat and why. We enjoyed chopping up our chosen fruits and trying fruits that we had never tried before! After tasting our fruit salad, using one of the five sense, we evaluated it. Some children had never tried plum…

We designed our fruit salads after discussing which healthy foods we should eat and why. We enjoyed chopping up our chosen fruits and trying fruits that we had never tried before! After tasting our fruit salad, using one of the five sense, we evaluated it. Some children had never tried plum…

We designed our fruit salads after discussing which healthy foods we should eat and why. We enjoyed chopping up our chosen fruits and trying fruits that we had never tried before! After tasting our fruit salad, using one of the five sense, we evaluated it. Some children had never tried plum…