Tree & Night Light Project

Art Design & Technology

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1. Select your template for your
Seasonal tree decoration.
2. Draw around the template,
transferring the shape onto
the rough side of your material
3. Also mark the two positions
for the panel pins which you
will use later.
4. Return the template to the
box, teacher or pass it on to be
used again.
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5. Use a vice and soft jaws to
secure your work in the vice. You
will need to cut close to the vice in
order to produce a good accurate
cut, without the material
wobbling around. So you will need
to keep moving your material in
the vice for each cut to ensure
that you have the best position.
6. Use the junior hacksaw to
carefully cut out your tree.
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7. Glass paper to smooth the rough
sawn edges of your tree.
Again use a vice and soft jaws to secure
your work in the vice. You will need to
work close to the vice in order to
produce a good quality finish,
Again you will need to work without the
material wobbling around. So you will
need to keep moving your material in
the vice for each cut to ensure that you
have the best position.
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8. At this point it would be
sensible to create an artistic
decoration for your tree, you can
be really creative you do not have
to use a traditional seasonal
design, you could consider
patterns, different colours or
something representational of the
season.
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IMPORTANT-Create your artistic design o the smooth
side of you piece of wood
9. On the block of softwood, mark corner to corner
with a ruler and pencil to create a cross, like the
Scottish flag, where the points meet will be the center,
you will line this up with the point of the cutting tool
when you drill the hole.
10. While some of the class are creating their designs
for their seasonal tree, you will need to take the block
of wood which will for the base of the product.
11. Using the pillar you will need to bore a 35 mm Ø
hole, but not all the way through the wood! I suggest
tat you drill until the widest part of the cutting tool
(Forsner bit) reaches the top surface of the wood. You
must secure your work in a machine vice and ensure it
is flat and resting on the bottom of the machine vice
12. After drill the hole, you will need to spend some
time cleaning up the wooden block with glass paper.
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13. Put the block on its side in the vice
(use soft jaws) apply a small amount of
PVA glue as shown.
14. As shown opposite, gently hammer
a panel pin into each of the marked
places on the rough side of your wood,
whilst it is still flat on the table, you
should just hammer them in so that you
can just feel the point of the pin coming
through the other side, this will help you
position your tree when fastening it to
the wooded base. Then line the tree up
with base as show, and gently tap the
pins to hold the two pieces of wood
together.
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15. Add the safe battery powered tea light and enjoy!

16. Draw your completed piece of work on A4 paper,

can you add the correct dimensions of your completed
product to the drawing? and use annotation to
evaluate your product, you should consider;
1. What went well?
2. How would you improve your work if you were to
make it again?
3. What problems did you encounter? And how did
you overcome them?
4. Have you developed any new skills or techniques
when making products in the workshop.
5. What have you learnt?