ED3403 Activity Plan: V&A Museum Inspired Child Development Activities

This activity plan, created for the ED3403 course, showcases an understanding of play, learning, and child development through the lens of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Inspired by a visit to the V&A Museum of Childhood, the plan outlines activities tailored to various developmental areas, including communication and language, physical development, personal, social, and emotional development, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world, and expressive arts and design. Activities range from storytelling and nature scavenger hunts to garden yoga, planting, creating nature ABC books, and water balloon games, all designed to engage children aged 3-4 years. The reflection highlights the importance of integrating care and education, emphasizing the role of playful activities in fostering children's learning and skill development, aligning with the EYFS framework and personal experiences.

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Student ID: Theme: Age of the Child: 3-4 years
Area of Development Activity Evaluation
Communication and Language
(CL)
The Curious Garden (Book) The story in the book for the
children supports the domain
of communication and the
language by introducing the
enchanting tale with the
themes of the environment
and some of the breathtaking
illustrations that helped the
children understand the
vocabularies in the book
(Brown 2013). The use of the
props and the authors’
illustrations towards the
capture of the imagination will
make the story telling much
more fun and interactive. This
will help in the development
of thinking, expression and
communication among the

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Nature Scavenger Hunt
(activity)
children.
This particular activity
thoroughly supports the
communication and language.
This is because scavenger
hunts are fun and play. This
helps the children to explore
and find out the objects of the
nature such as a twig, a clover,
a green leaf, a bug as printed
in the picture which is given
to the children before the play
(Murray and McDowell Clark
2017). These playful activities
and the sensory experiences
help in the stimulation of wide
range of communication,
conversation among the
children in the outdoor.
Physical Development (PD) Garden Yoga This activity for the kids
supports the notion of the

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Plantation and Painting
physical development for the
kids. The kids initiate the
playful activity by pretending
to be a tree, which makes
them stand on one leg and
sway like tree. They pretend
to be a flower, which makes
them lift their legs and balance
on their sitting bones. These
activities promote the physical
development of the children
thus helping them to
strengthen their muscles
(Stirrup, Evans and Davies
2017).
The activity for the kids will
help in the growth of their
skills and physical
development. The activity
development of a small garden
with accumulation of pots,
digging the wet soil,

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plantation of the seeds and
watering the pots. The
children also colors the pot
with paint brushes and water
and fence their garden area
with twigs. This activity
makes the children walk, run
and engage in a playful
activity.
Personal, Social and
Emotional Development
(PSED)
Unrestricted outdoor play in
the garden
This activity for the children
is helpful towards the
development of personal,
social and emotional
development (DSL et al.
2016). Supporting the children
helps in the development of
the skills for the social and the
emotional interactions with
the other children and
furthermore makes them
confident in their activities.

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Helping the other children in
gardening and identifying
natural objects
This activity is helpful for the
children since it guides the
children towards reflection
(Lindon and Brodie 2016).
The activity of helping the
fellow friends is essential
towards associating the social
and the emotional
competences serving as the
key to the development of the
traits and further
encouragement.
Literacy Creation of nature ABC book This activity engages the
children to go on nature hunt
and identify natural objectives
representing each of the letter
in the alphabet. This activity
strengthens the literacy of the
children.

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Food Exploring (Care based
meal time activity)
This activity is a care based
activity allowing the children
to develop their skills in
literacy. The activity includes
the identification of the fruits
and the vegetables that are
hidden in a cloth bag by the
children to improve their
knowledge of vocabulary and
new food items.
Mathematics Water Balloon Game This activity game termed as
the water balloon mat activity
learning game helps the
children towards the
development of the arithmetic
skills like addition and
subtraction by throwing water
balls to the targets after
calculation in their mind. This
helps in development of the
primary calculation skills
among the children.
Understanding the World Observation of the life cycle This activity is extremely

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of a butterfly essential for the children in the
understanding and the
development of the ideas
related to the growth cycle
among the living objects in the
nature.
Expressive Arts and Design Nature Collage Project This activity will enable the
children to pick up natural
objects like different shaped
leafs, twigs, stones, flowers
and other and create collage in
the art book (Sammons et al.
2017). Furthermore coloring
with the different shaped leafs
in the art book enables the
children to sharpen their skill
related to expressive arts and
designs.

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Reflection
The above template is a through activity plan for the children of age 3 to 4 years. The chosen
theme for the activity template is nature. Following with the visit to the V&A Museum of
childhood, I created the above stated activity plan for the effective demonstration of my
knowledge and the understanding in relation to play activities, the learning and the development
of the children. Some of the areas of development that I have highlighted in the template include
the communication and the language, the physical development and the Personal, Social and
Emotional Development. I furthermore noted down the activities strengthening the development
of the children in the field of literacy, mathematics, world understanding and expressive arts and
design. I believe that the activities Nature Scavenger Hunt and illustration and storytelling from
books related to nature helps in the development of the interest of the children in their language
and the communication skills. Interest in activities of plantation and painting, creation of nature
ABC book, identification of food, nature activities of water balloon games and collage projects
from the natural objects are some of the essential factors enriching the interest of the child
guiding them towards theory learning and development of their skills by playful nature activates.
My experience from the visit to the museum of childhood helped in understanding the learning
and the development of the children in the enhancement through talking and playing. The
inextricable link among the care and the education is totally visible and the above action plan
template depicts the overall EYFS and development in children according to my personal
experience.

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References
Brown, P., 2013. The curious garden. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
DSL, D.S.L., Watson, M.T., Lead, D.D.S., Johns, M.C., Lead, D.D.E.S., Duncan, M.S., DSG,
D.S.G. and Thompson, M.C., 2016. Every child matters.
Lindon, J. and Brodie, K., 2016. Understanding Child Development 0-8 Years 4th Edition:
Linking Theory and Practice. Hachette UK.
Murray, J. and McDowell Clark, R., 2017. School readiness, child development and early
learning. Children & Young People Now, pp.31-34.
Sammons, P., Sylva, K., Hall, J., Siraj, I., Melhuish, E., Taggart, B. and Mathers, S., 2017.
Establishing the effects of quality in early childhood: comparing evidence from England.
Stirrup, J., Evans, J. and Davies, B., 2017. Early years learning, play pedagogy and social
class. British Journal of sociology of Education, 38(6), pp.872-886.

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