Diploma in Early Childhood Education: Creative Arts & Play Ideas

This assignment focuses on practical activities for a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care, specifically designed for K1 students. The activities cover various themes such as body parts, clothing, and senses, integrating aesthetic and creative expression domains. Activities include making stick puppets, practicing wearing a shirt, creating feeling masks, using shapes to make a face, and various dough-rolling exercises to develop fine motor skills. Gross motor skill development is addressed through activities like throwing a ball overhead, between the legs, and aiming at targets like rings and boxes. Additionally, the assignment includes a music and movement activity, singing "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes." Each activity outlines learning objectives, required materials, step-by-step procedures, and evaluation methods, providing a comprehensive guide for educators. Find more solved assignments and study resources on Desklib.

Running head: DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Diploma in early childhood education and care
Name of the student:
Name of the University:
Author note

1DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme Body part Domain Aesthetic &
Creative
Expression
Focus Body parts
Term 1 Week 2 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Stick Puppet
Learning
Outcomes
Able to make Stick Puppet
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Use intelligence to implement creative crafting ideas
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-children keep close observation to understand the hand crafting
concept and follow the instruction
Materials Art paper, wooden stick, seizer, glue, coloured pencils
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Draw a picture of an animal and colour it and cut the picture out of
the paper.
Main Activity:
1. Attach the puppet on the top of the stick by using glue.
2. Make sure that the stick is attached at the middle of the picture
Closure:
1. Repeat steps as many times as you want. Make creative drawing
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Try to make more accurate and creative picture and cut them more
evenly.

2DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme Clothing I
wear
Domain Aesthetic &
Creative
Expression
Focus Clothing I wear
Term 5Week 6 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Able to do a shirt
Learning
Outcomes
Able to do a shirt
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Use hands and other body parts in synchronised way
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the teacher to learn way of controlling their body
parts
Materials Shirt, Mirror
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Take the shirt and understand the position of two sleeves
Main Activity:
1. Put both of hands through the sleeves one by one
2. button up the shirt
Closure:
1. Repeat steps multiple times having multiple shirt to wear
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Try to wear more accurately by spending less amount of time
Theme My Sense Domain Aesthetic & Focus Feelings

3DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Creative
Expression
Term 7Week 8 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Able to make feeling mask
Learning
Outcomes
Able to make feeling mask
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Identify the emotions and represent it by drawing
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the way of drawing an emotion
Materials Pencil, Art Paper, seizer, string
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Draw a face on the art paper representing an emotion
Main Activity:
1. Cut the face
2. Attach a string with the mask
Closure:
1. Repeat steps by drawing different emotions on the mask
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Understand the way of differentiate different emotions

4DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Sense Domain Aesthetic &
Creative
Expression
Focus Part of the face
Term 9Week 10 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Able to make feeling mask
Learning
Outcomes
Able to make face using shapes
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Place the shapes in proper position to make a face
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children identify the correct shapes to build up the structure of the
face
Materials Picture of a face, set of different shapes
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Observe the picture of the face and identify the required shapes
Main Activity:
1. Place each of the shapes into their proper position
2. Rearrange the distribution to make the face complete
Closure:
1. Trying to draw various emotion of the face
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Make face with more optional shapes and identify correct one.

5DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Senses Domain Fine motor Focus Body parts
Term 1Week 2 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Roll dough with rolling pin
Learning
Outcomes
Able to roll dough with rolling pin
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Use tool for complex work
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the rolling technique
Materials Dough ball, Rolling Pin
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Place the dough ball just beneath the rolling pin
Main Activity:
1. Put pressure on the dough ball with the rolling pin
2. Put pressure and move the pin
Closure:
1. Try to handle the pin in various ways
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Repeat steps to make it more accurate

6DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Senses Domain Fine motor Focus Sense
Term 3Week 4 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Rolling dough with palm
Learning
Outcomes
Able to roll dough with palm
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Use hands for complex work
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the movement of the palm
Materials Dough ball
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Make the dough flat and round
Main Activity:
1. Place the palms of your hands on the dough ball
2. Put pressure
Closure:
1. Put the dough plate in another place without deform it
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher
Evaluation:
1. Repeat steps to make it more round and flat

7DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Senses Domain Fine motor Focus Clothing I wear
Term 5Week 6 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Rolling dough with finger
Learning
Outcomes
Able to roll dough with finger
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Use finger in synchronised way for complex work
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the way of putting pressure with fingers
Materials Dough ball
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Place the fingers of both hand on the dough ball
Main Activity:
1. Put pressure on the ball to make it flat
Closure:
1. Put the dough plate in another place without deform it
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Use various balls to try the process out multiple times

8DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Senses Domain Fine motor Focus Feelings
Term 7Week 8 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Rolling dough with finger
Learning
Outcomes
Able to roll dough into a ball
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Control the pressure of the hand
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the technique of using hand
Materials Dough ball
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Grab the mixture of dough by both hands
Main Activity:
1. Put the mixture of the dough between two palms
2. Keep the pressure and move palms
Closure:
1. Add some dry dough to make the tusk easier
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Repeat the procedure to make the ball more spherical.

9DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Senses Domain Fine motor Focus Part of the face
Term 9Week 10 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Rolling dough into small balls
Learning
Outcomes
Able to roll dough into small balls
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Divide the dough ball into multiple equal parts
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the technique of using hand
Materials Dough ball
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Make the cylindrical shape by rubbing two palms around the dough
ball
Main Activity:
1. Divide the dough cylinder multiple small ball by using tip of the
finger
Closure:
1. Keep the small ball separate from one another
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Repeat steps to make the small balls equal in size

10DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Senses Domain Gross motor Focus Body parts
Term 1Week 2 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Throwing the ball overhead
Learning
Outcomes
Able to throw a ball overhead
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Control the precise movement and force of hand
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children follow the style of holding and throwing the ball
Materials Soft rubber ball
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Hold the ball above the head
Main Activity:
1. Move the hand from back to front direction
2. Release the ball at the moment of finishing the hand moment
Closure:
1. Understand the exact force and position of the hand
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Repeat steps to put accurate force

11DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
Theme My Senses Domain Gross motor Focus Sense
Term 3Week 4 Level/Age
Group
K1
5
Number of
Children
8 Duration 30
mins
Name of
Activity
Throw the ball between the legs
Learning
Outcomes
Able to throw a ball between the legs
Learning
Objectives
Skill:
-Throwing the ball from underhand position
Learning
Disposition
Perseverance:
-Children hold the ball bellow their knee
Materials Soft rubber ball
Lesson steps
(Procedures)
Introduction:
1. Hold the ball below the knee level
Main Activity:
1. Follow the underhand movement
2. Move your hand by bending your body and release the ball
Closure:
1. Understand the direction of movement of the hand
Question to Ask:
1. Teacher to ask
Evaluation:
1. Repeat steps to understand the motion of the hand