Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas
- Make comparisons and create new connections.
- Talk about personal intentions, describing what they were trying to do.
- Respond to comments and questions, entering into dialogue about their creations.
- Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role-play, movement, designing and making, and a variety of songs and musical instruments.
- Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
Exploring Media and Materials
- Explore what happens when they mix colours.
- Understand that different media can be combined to create new effects.
- Choose particular colours to use for a purpose.
- Use ideas involving fitting, overlapping, in, out, enclosure, grids and sun-like shapes.
- Work creatively on a large or small scale.
- Create constructions, collages, painting and drawings.
- Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions.
- Experiment to create different textures.
Topic Overview
Term 1
- Design and make sandwiches
- Uses equipment showing a range of basic skills
- Understand the importance of healthy eating
Term2
- Design and make a hat
- Can observe, select and manipulate objects and materials
- Asks questions about why things happen and how things work
Term3
- Design and make a woven collage
- Can observe, select and manipulate objects and materials
- Asks questions about why things happen and how things work