This page provides you with three activities, for three different age groups. These activities can be changed around to suit any age group if it NEEDED be.
** Best suited 12 months to 2 years of aged children.**
0-2 YEARS OF AGE: clay children's hand prints
Learning outcomes achieved (eylf)
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
Children begin to learn about themselves and construct their own identity with the context of their families and communities. When children fell accepted, develop attachments and build a trust bond with those whom care for these children.
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
Children start to develop dispositions for learning. These can be as followed, curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity. This is also where children will develop a whole variety of skills and processes these are, problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, researching and investigating.
Duration of time
Size of group of children
Resources required for activity
Content of lesson
Instructions
Children begin to learn about themselves and construct their own identity with the context of their families and communities. When children fell accepted, develop attachments and build a trust bond with those whom care for these children.
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
Children start to develop dispositions for learning. These can be as followed, curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity. This is also where children will develop a whole variety of skills and processes these are, problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, researching and investigating.
Duration of time
- Estimated:
- 10-15 minutes
Size of group of children
- Around 4 children at a time, the less children the better
Resources required for activity
- Clay
- Paper (for the mess)
- Smocks (so children don't get clay all over their clothes)
- Rolling pins
Content of lesson
- To allow the children to play around with the clay and get a feel for it, and learn what kind of shapes they can make out of the clay and to learn how clay works.
Instructions
- Have some of the children come sit around the table and put their smocks on and give them a piece of clay each.
- Give each child a rolling pin and show them how to flatten out their piece of clay (take note teachers may need to assist children in this process)
- Once the clay is flatten out, show the children how you place your hand in the clay to leave a print of your hand, once again the children may need assistance in doing this.
- Place the prints on a piece of paper with the children' s names on them and allow them to dry (note this activity should only take around 15 minutes, however give children enough time to complete their piece.
3-5 years of age: Creating pots out of clay
LEARNING OUTCOMES ACHIEVED (EYLF)
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Children develop understandings of themselves and their world through the process of active, hands-on investigation.
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their environment
Children start to develop dispositions for learning. These can be as followed, curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity. This is also where children will develop a whole variety of skills and processes these are, problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, researching and investigating.
Duration of time
Size of the group of children
Resources required for activity
Content of lesson
Instructions
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Children develop understandings of themselves and their world through the process of active, hands-on investigation.
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their environment
Children start to develop dispositions for learning. These can be as followed, curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity. This is also where children will develop a whole variety of skills and processes these are, problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, researching and investigating.
Duration of time
- Estimated:
- 20 - 30 minutes (depending on children' s engagement with the activity)
Size of the group of children
- 4 children at a time
Resources required for activity
- Clay
- Paper (for the mess)
- Smocks (so children don't get clay on their clothes
- Rolling pins
Content of lesson
- To allow the children to experiment with the clay to find out all the different kinds of shapes that can be made from clay, and to further their investigating skills and to be creative with the clay.
Instructions
- Have the children sit down at the table, explain to the children the activity and put their smocks on and give each child and piece of clay.
- Give the children instructions to squish the clay together to create and cylinder shape (note teachers may need to assist children into doing this step)
- Show the children how to hollow out the top of the clay to create a hole in the clay by using their fingers. (note children may need assistance with this task)
- Place the children s pots on a blank piece of paper, with the child's name on them and allow them to dry. some of the other children may want to decorate their pots, allow time for these children to do so.
6-8 Years of age: Creating animals out of clay
LEARNING OUTCOMES ACHIEVED (EYLF)
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their environment
Children start to develop dispositions for learning. These can be as followed, curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity. This is also where children will develop a whole variety of skills and processes these are, problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, researching and investigating.
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Children develop understandings of themselves and their world through the process of active, hands-on investigation.
Duration of time
Content of lesson
Instructions
Allow the children to go around a share their animals with their class mates, when they are dry. Have the children give feedback on each other work (note make sure they go to someone who they don't know to allow new friendship circles to develop.
Tasks for the teacher to consider
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their environment
Children start to develop dispositions for learning. These can be as followed, curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity. This is also where children will develop a whole variety of skills and processes these are, problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, researching and investigating.
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Children develop understandings of themselves and their world through the process of active, hands-on investigation.
Duration of time
- Estimated:
- 20 - 30 minutes (depending on children' s engagement with the activity and varying from each child)
- This activity can work with as many as 10 children, depending on the size of the room.
- Clay
- Paper (for the mess)
- Smocks (so children don't get clay on their clothes
- clay utensils (rolling pins, cutters etc)
- Pictures of different kinds of animals
Content of lesson
- This gives the children the opportunity to experiment with the clay and create a animal out of clay to express their molding skills, with the use of their hands.
Instructions
- Have the children sit down at the table, explain to the children the activity and put their smocks on and give each child and piece of clay.
- Give the children pictures of animals for inspiration, or ask the children what their favorite animal is and if they wish to can make that animal out of clay.
- Give the children time to create their animal, allowing the children to do it by themselves unless they ask for assistance.
- When children are done, place their animals on a blank piece of paper with their names of it and allow them to dry.
Allow the children to go around a share their animals with their class mates, when they are dry. Have the children give feedback on each other work (note make sure they go to someone who they don't know to allow new friendship circles to develop.
Tasks for the teacher to consider
- Observe and take note the way children listen to instructions.
- Take notes on how the children are commencing these activities.