Childhood Education and Care: Formative Assessments for Creativity

This assignment delves into fostering creativity in children through a series of activities and formative assessments. It begins by exploring the use of natural and found materials in art, detailing specific activities involving stones, leaves, and flower petals. The assignment then examines introducing children to different music and dance forms, specifically classical music and hip-hop, providing examples and methods. It further addresses practical scenarios, such as instilling responsibility for materials like clay and handling situations where children misuse materials. The assignment concludes with definitions and activities related to improvisation and creative expression, including creating a bunny mask from a paper plate and analyzing an educator's response to a child's artwork, providing a comprehensive overview of nurturing creativity in an educational setting.

Nurture creativity in
children

Formative Assessments
Activity 1
1. Make a list of at least six natural and found materials not mentioned in the text that could
be made available to children to create works of art.
There are many natural and found materials that can be used in making art by children as
described below -
 Stones
 Flower petals
 Salt
 Leaves
 Pine-cones Wooden sticks
2. Describe an activity that would allow children to use natural or found materials to be
creative. Be specific. In 150 words describe what you would do and what children need to do
step-by-step. Identify any materials that would be needed. You cannot use examples provided
in the text.
There are the playing ideas of paint blob animals
They need:
 They need of plastic tablecloth or some old papers
 They require one large sheet or paper
 They require a paintbox.
1. First they need to cover the table from tablecloth or a newspaper. Along with that they
need fold the sheet of parer in half then it to fold. They get my child into blobs of paint
on one half paper. Then fold it to another half paper then after they get wet then smooth it
over the paint.

2. Another Process is to cover the table or floor with the table clothe or newspaper. Then
encourage the child to fill the rest information related to that picture for example spots,
antennae, legs, hats,
3. then get ready the child for the make up a name for winged animal then help them to
write the name on the paper.
Activity 2
Identify three different materials that could be used by children to express themselves
creatively. Suggest an activity that would allow them to do this for each of the materials you
have chosen (that is, there should be three separate activities).
Three material and activities used by children to show creativity are as follows -
 Stone – there are various activities for the children to make creative activities one of them
is stone, make children try to paint upper case and lower case letters with an acrylic
paints on small flat beach stone, which looks more attractive. After the paint was dry then
ask children to quick coat of spray and varnish to weather proof them. Younger children
may explore the letters through play on the other side older children can form sight words
with them.
 Leaves - Making a fall collage with finds from the garden and garden is a wonderful way
for toddlers and preschoolers to explore fall leaves and flowers. Not to mention, it’s a lot
of fun prep-ping for this fall art project because it starts with a nature walk. An activity
like this can fill the better part of a fall morning – the walk, sorting your treasures,
creating the backdrop for your collage (it’s a really fun paint process) and then gluing all
the items on to make gorgeous piece of autumn art.
 Flower Petals - Younger children are more likely to paint and making project they
pretend to be a flower growing in the sunshine. For that they need to cut out some centre
of dinner paper plates. This must be the large enough for the child face, invite children to
glue the flowers then they need to cut the paper all around the rim of the plate. Then for
support provide one wooden crafty stick and use of heavy black tape to the back of the
plate. Then they make their own facing of flowers and pretend them itself as flowers.
Encourage them to move the body as per the sunshine rays. They also can sing the song

and do dance on the tune of “ A Hunting we will go” a pink tulip there, yellow daffodil,
flowers
Activity 3
1. Choose one type of music and complete the following activities.
a. Describe the type of music.
b. Provide three examples of this type of music.
c. Explain how you would introduce children to this type of music. Provide at least five
examples.
1. a. Classical Music: Classical music is a kind of old form of musical art. It shows the
importance of traditional culture and its values. It requires both classical music and Baroque
music to use orchestras to produce their typical sounds. But in classical music it has different
uses of different styles.
b. Examples of Classical music - “I loved all of it. It was wicked!”, “Amazing! That’s All I Can
Say.”, Music That’s Out Of This World.
c. How to introduce children to music
 Talking with the kids about sounds and rhymes to generate some music skills. Make them
understand the beats and sounds knowledge. This increases the curiosity among children.
 Let them try to invent their own music by using tables and drums and give them stick
and tell them to make different sounds from them. Classical music is the precious thing in music, it is very necessary for the children to get
knowledge of this to enhance their knowledge area. It helps children to get more aware
about his own culture and importance of classical music.
2. Choose one type of dance and complete the following activities.
a. Describe the type of dance.b. Provide three examples of music this dance might be performed to.c. Explain how you would introduce children to this type of music. Provide at least three
examples.
2. a. Hip Hop Dance – Hip Hop dance is the other dance form of music which is very famous
and most wanted. Some English singers make wonderful appearance of hip hop and provide

attractive music albums such as Jennifer Lopez, Nelly. This dance style also very famous as a
street grooves. Teenagers are the most curious and excited for hip hop dance.
b. Examples of Hip hop music – Fight the Power, Funky Drummer, Me Myself and I
c. Introduce children to this type of music -
 Play music throughout the day. Many people use TVs as a way of calming down or
entertaining a child, but you can use music for the same purpose instead.[2] Whether
you're at home or in the car, chances are you have access to music. Simply let it play in
the background while you two go about your daily business and your child will be
automatically immersed.
 Go to children's concerts. Although concerts for adults are not generally recommendable
for toddlers, there has in recent years been a rise in what are known as children's concerts.
 Give them musical instruments and musical toys. Certain books and toys will play music
at the touch of a button or a squeeze. This can be a stimulating option for very young
children. Although we usually think of musical instruments as being expensive, too
fragile, or too complicated for toddlers, there are definitely cheaper, easy options for
youngsters that will let them experiment with creating their own music.
Activity 4
1. Children at a childhood education and care service often use clay and associated
equipment. At the end of an activity an educator tells the children to put the clay away. How
effective is this in instilling a sense of ownership and responsibility for equipment and
materials? What would you suggest the educator do? (100–150 words)
Learning environment enhance the ownership and foster the learning skills. This reflects
the respect and the importance of recent trends. Learning opportunities for students are very
much important and effective towards the task. For that they need to adopt some new learning
skills and approach to make student more knowledge and understandable towards the
opportunities. It is the integral part of the curriculum or leisure based programmes. New
learning environment may reach the new learning skills and growth, and educator needs to adopt
new skills and to make session more interactive.
Steps the Educator should follow -

 Modelling Behaviour - We model the behaviour we expect to see, as children pick up
even the smallest cues. If you walk around and step over things rather than picking things
up/resetting, the children will copy the behaviour. We are role models and it is important
to teach children how to take care of things.
 Providing positive reinforcement - Providing positive reinforcement builds on a child’s
confidence. As Educators and Teachers, we avoid phrases that begin with the word
“don’t” such as “don’t throw that”, and instead try saying “let’s pick it up”, and ask
questions such as “where does this go? Can we put it back together?” We aim to create a
positive culture where children want to look after their learning environment. Provide Visual Examples - At Explorers, we display visual examples of how each space
should look. The children are able to refer to these images to help them reset the learning
environment to its original state once they have finished using it. We also display
encouraging statements in each learning space to help our Educators prompt the children
as to how they could use the space.
2. A child engaged in an art activity places foreign objects into a glue bottle (eg glitter, scraps
of paper, pencil shavings). They have done this before and have been warned against doing it
in the future. What should the educator do to teach the child a sense of responsibility for
equipment and materials? Provide a detailed response. (100–150 words)
There are various ways an educator can teach children a sense of responsibility for equipment
which are as follows -
 Helps children to make them feel a sense of possession of their own things.
 Enhance the role of open ended, promote the use of natural materials and make them
available for the children use.
 Make attractive things and equipments and try to encourage towards creative expressions
and make them accessible to children.
 Make role model of the children by creating improvising with material and equipments.
Activity 5
1. Define improvisation as it pertains to creativity. (75–100 words)

Improvisation is the alternation or improvement in something, it is the positive sign of
performing something tremendous good and effective. Improvisation is the art of getting things
in effective manner. It makes new ideas and creativity in working. It is the result of without
specific or scripted preparation. These skills of betterment may use by the artist, physical,
cognitive, academic, and non academic disciplines. It is the process in which execution is done
without any preparation.
2. You have been asked to role model creativity by showing children what you would create
from a paper plate. What would you make? Provide a list of steps that you would follow when
making your creation and provide details of any other resources that would be needed. (75–
100 words)
I will create a Bunny Mask from the paper plate. The steps I will follow to make this art will be
as follows -
 To make bunny, first it requires painting back side of the paper plate and leave it for dry.
 Then cut out for two eye holes.
 Make pieces of pipe cleaner into three twist together in the centre.
 Then stick glue in the centre of face.
 Then cut a nose from oink card and then glue it of the centre of the pipe cleaners.
 Then in next process cut out two ears from the card and glue it to the top pipe of the head.
 Then in last stage draw on mouth with black pen. Then make two holes and then tie it
from elastic threat and then here is your bunny mask is ready.
Activity 6
1. A child creates a picture of their house. In the picture the child has included a picture
of their garden. The flowers in the garden are almost the same size as the house. The
educator tells the child that the flowers are much too big. The child responds that they
really like flowers and they wish the flowers in their garden were that big. The educator
tells the child that they should redraw the picture with the flowers being portrayed
realistically. Write a paragraph of approx. 100 words in which you comment on
whether the educator is allowing the child to communicate their own original ideas,
interpretations and expressions.

The educator is not allowing the children to portray or communicate their own ideas,
expressions or interpretations. This can be proved by observing that the educator ask them to
redraw the picture of the house saying that the flowers are too big. This shows that educ tor
want the children to draw smaller flowers. But the children likes big flowers which shows
they wanted to draw big flowers according to their ideas and expressions.2. An educator tells children that they are going to make their own imaginary animal or
creature. They tell children that they should make their animal as crazy and weird as
possible. The educator has supplied a large range of materials and equipment for the
children to use and tells them to spread out around the room so they have enough
space to make their creatures. They also tell children to take their time. Write a
paragraph of approx. 100 words in which you comment on whether the educator is
allowing the children to communicate their own original ideas, interpretations and
expressions.
In this case the educator really wants children to communicate their own ideas and
expressions by making their own imaginary animal or creature. The educator allowed
children to make animals according to their choices and imagination without asking them to
make a specific or particular animal or creature. He also provided suitable items and space to
children for making the animals which clearly shows he wants children to use their
imagination and ideas in creating the art.
Activity 7
1. Across the road, building work is being carried out. A child points to a bulldozer and
says, ‘What’s that?’ The educator replies, ‘That’s a bulldozer.’ The child asks, ‘What
does it do?’ How would you recommend the educator help the child to find their own
answer? (100–150 words)
The Educator should explain the child that the bulldozers is the powerful machine which
helps to move heavy parts and machines from one place two another. Besides, they help to
move heavy rocks, debris, etc. bulldozers is the kind of job in road building companies.
Generally in construction, demolition and farming. Its design according to their work large
steel blades to carry heavy and large equipments. It drives by the powerful diesel designs. He
should also tell the child that bulldozers are very useful to carry large machines or rocks, or

its is the short transportation of material. It also helps to dumped from lorry or rough grading,
removing trees , stumps etc. this machine is very much helpful for construction companies.2. A child is playing with a toy cash register. They are trying to get the drawer of the cash
register to open but have not succeeded. The child asks the educator, ‘How open?’
How would you recommend the educator help the child to find their own answer?
(100–150 words)
The educator should first improvise the method to open the cash register and let the
children see how he did it. He used let them see how to make use of the keys for opening the
drawer of the cash register. Improvising the use of key for opening drawer will help children
to learn and attain the idea of how the drawer get opened with the use keys.
Activity 8
1. Create a conversation an educator might have with a group of four-year-old children
that encourages children to talk about their creations, shares enthusiasm for creative
work and encourages children to respect and appreciate the creative work of peers.
(150–200 words)
Child care professionals has responsible to take care of children by give them all
necessary services and care. They have responsible for developing creativity in children
growth. Along with that they need to arouse their curiosity power in them make its thinking
challenging. Along with that they need to make planning and growth for the development of
children interaction. The Educator can ask various questions to the children to make creative
interaction with their trainer. They need to encourage children for their new skills and
determine their skills and interest area. -
 Tell me about yourself..?
 What makes you happy...?
 What makes you sad...?
 what will happen next ?
 How can you solve it.?
 What do you think, its work or not.?

 Can you find another alternative.?
 How do you know that.?
 I wonder why.?
 What makes you sad.?
 What is your hobbies.?
 How do you say that.?
 Show me how.?
 Why did you.?
Activity 9
1. A colleague tells you that they believe in strict timetables and if children cannot
complete an activity in the time allocated, that is too bad. They say that children will
soon learn to hurry up. What would you tell them about the need to allow time for
children to be creative over days or weeks and why educators should adopt a creative
approach to routines? (100–150 words)
The Educators should effectively make colleague understand that children needs time to
analyse and adopt various things such as the timetable. Forcing them to adopt a strict
timetable is not at good for the children as it will negatively affect and harm a child's
comfort. The educator should ask the colleague to use a creative approach to routines. The
educator should tell their colleague that routines are important because they give children a
sense of security and control over their environment. Children learn what to expect at various
times in the day and as they begin to participate in these routines, they will experience a
sense of control and satisfaction at being able to perform part of or all of the tasks associated
with the routine. Routine activities are the most important for the children to make new
things and innovative activities. Overall it makes new changes and make new ways to adopt
new learning and proves children learn so many things in day to day activities, like new
learning and get new knowledge, When children get into the various routine activities they
going to learn sense of control and satisfaction at being able to perform part of all the tasks
which relates to the routine activities.

2. Provide a list of at least 10 creative tasks that might extend over days or even weeks.
Creative activities that can be extended are as follows -
1. Aspire to Be an Architect
2. Invent a Superhero Identity
3. Fill Up on the Funnies
4. Form a Family Book Club
5. Send a Flat Stanley
6. Plan a Political Platform
7. Launch a Family Blog
8. Keep the Camera Rolling
9. Learn a Second Language
10.Explore Other Galaxies
Activity 10
Identify two techniques you could teach children using different materials and equipment.
You cannot use examples provided in the text.
The two techniques that I will use to teach children how to use materials and equipments
are as follows -
Physical organization of the learning area - you need to make physical learning environment.
And place material to implement the best children learning process. You need to take care of
some points which is mention below:
 The equipment and materials are very much needed that are mostly requires in the inside
and outside play areas.
 There should be proper balance between the races of open and closed spaces and
materials.
 The boundaries should be the different areas

 Ways must be all together which material will be grouped.
 The ways in which children interact must be placed material should be on perfect place.
 The ways in which placement of material will allow reflective. The way should be robust and physically exploration of materials.
2.Explain the steps that you would follow when teaching the technique and provide details of
any other materials and equipment that would be needed.
Demonstrating to children – demonstrate means to show something. It helps to determine the
children capabilities to the learners so that accordingly they learner acquire skills by imitating
other people. Through this process children get feel the movement and learning process is
accelerated. Extensions of the demonstration process helps children practises and express the
method while adults ask to express the experience to other children.
 Helps to use unclear and verbal instruction to support the demonstration process.
 Break task into smaller parts, it is very important when your demonstrate the complex
process or techniques.
 Try to keep short and small demonstration for the children to attend short attention
span.
 To get familiar with the steps involved in the skills or techniques so that children will
not get confuse.
 Review the children what they have learned till or if additional demonstration plan is
require or not.
 Use visual graphics to understand in better manner.
 Provide demonstration to enhance children opportunities or practises.
Activity 11
Provide two examples of creative activities that might be planned and implemented to provide
opportunities for children to collaborate with each other. Provide a detailed description of
each activity.