PROJECT OUTLINE: Wooden Photo Frames Y7

Project Outline
This project covers basic wood theory & joints. The students produce a photo holder based on an Egyptian/Art Deco theme. It covers the whole design process including: use of WWW to research Art Deco shape & detail, measurement task (different photo sizes), orthographic drawing task, oblique and isometric drawing task, joint cutting experiment task, step-by-step Flow chart, wood joints, and a finishing woods page.

Resources & Practical Tips
Resources- Woodworking tools, paint, felts or dies, black thick and thin marker pens to outline colours and neaten up work.

Materials- frame supports: strips of pine (100 x 25 x 15mm) with 5mm grooves cut in. Note-If you cannot facilitate making the groove then make the supports thicker e.g. 20mm and fix quadrant beading either side of a 5mm strip of material. This will allow for the 3mm acrylic, photo and card backing.
Base- Pine pieces (190 x 60 x 10 or 12mm) If you want to save on material you could make them 45mm wide but this makes the base a little slim and not easy to stabilise.
Acrylic- 150 x 100 x 3mm cut card backing the same size
Add-ons- for extra bits, which decorate the frame, have a box full of small off-cuts. Also use other materials such as high density polystyrene. This is easy to cut for the less able and makes very colourful work (glue with DCM liquid glue using an old paint brush). I find that the best work comes from allowing the students to take them home as they are not restricted to classroom time constraints or distractions. They often come back with additional sequins and Fimo sculpture work!

Some resources used for this projects can be found at Teaching Resources: http://www.tep.org.uk

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