Resource Plan: Enhancing Toddlers' Skills Through Paper Ball Activity

This assignment presents a resource plan for a paper ball activity aimed at enhancing the skills of toddlers in an early childhood education setting. The plan outlines the context of the activity, including the materials needed such as art papers and tables, and the learning outcomes, which focus on developing motor skills, problem-solving abilities, and creativity. The activity involves children working in pairs to create paper balls, fostering social and coordination skills. The plan references Piaget's theory of child development and emphasizes the use of colorful resources to engage toddlers and promote language development. The assignment concludes with a list of references that support the educational approach and the benefits of art in child development.

Running head: RESOURCE PLAN
Resource plan
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Resource plan: Ball made out of paper for toddlers
In early childhood education setting, paper craft activities like making ball out of
papers can help to enhance creativity of children and promote visual learning. By engaging in
such kind of paper works, toddlers can develop their motors skills, critical thinking skills and
creativity (Cremin et al., 2015). This kind of play experience relates to the Piaget’s theory of
child development, which states that children develop their thinking skills by interaction with
world outside (Demetriou, Shayer & Efklides, 2016). Hence, when a toddler engages in
activities like building ball out of papers, they get an experience that promotes the logical and
conceptual growth of children.
Context:
 Different colours of art papers will be placed in activity room so that children have
enough space to learn about making balls
 Two big tables with five to six chairs will be arranged in the room so that children can
sit comfortably and keep all the materials needed to prepare the balls
 Six toddlers will be involved in the activity under the supervision of a child care
educator
 Two or three boxes will be kept so that children separate the balls according to
colours
Learning outcome:
Engaging in craftwork of making paper balls will help the toddler to:
 Develop their motor skills by using the scissors for cutting and using the papers to
scribble with crayons and make patterns

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 Strengthen their problem solving and critical thinking skills by the experience of
taking decisions regarding how to arrange the paper to create balls
 Learn about colour, shape and using descriptive words to crumble papers. This is
crucial for language development of toddlers
 Promote social development of children by giving them the opportunity to work with
other children to create the balls
 Improve their creative and think about new ways to use the paper (pbs.org, 2018).
Activity:
 Each child will be asked to partner with other child to prepare the balls
 First, the educator will demonstrate the way to make the ball out of craft papers and
then each child will be asked to make their balls out of craft papers provided
 Each children will be give two to three different colours of craft paper and asked to
keep the balls in matching colour boxes
 While using the craft paper, educator will teach toddlers about different shapes and
colours
 Children will also be asked to show their creativity by making different patterns on
the paper balls.
Craft papers are colourful resources that attract the attention of toddlers and increase their
interest in learning about the new activity of making papers from a piece of paper. This kind
of learning experience does not require much resource and children get to enhance their
decision making and creative thinking skills too. By allowing them to work in pairs, they also
get the opportunity to learn social skills and coordination skills, which is also an important
area of child learning and development (Huang et al., 2014).

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References:
Cremin, T., Glauert, E., Craft, A., Compton, A., & Stylianidou, F. (2015). Creative Little
Scientists: exploring pedagogical synergies between inquiry-based and creative
approaches in Early Years science. Education 3-13, 43(4), 404-419.
Demetriou, A., Shayer, M., & Efklides, A. (Eds.). (2016). Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive
development: Implications and applications for education. Routledge.
Huang, J., Sherraden, M., Kim, Y., & Clancy, M. (2014). Effects of Child Development
Accounts on early social-emotional development: An experimental test. JAMA
pediatrics, 168(3), 265-271.
pbs.org (2018). The Importance of Art in Child Development. Retrieved 2 March 2018, from
http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-importance-of-art-in-child-
development/