Children use natural and reusable loose parts as materials for sensory investigation, sound-making, construction, and art. The open-ended work also revisits early letters, colours, shapes, size comparison, and counting.
What children learn
- Collect, observe, and describe natural and reusable loose parts.
- Compare the textures and sounds produced by different materials.
- Manipulate loose parts to create representational and open-ended artwork.
- Revisit letters Aa-Cc, circles, red and yellow, tall and short, and counting to 10.
Key activities
- Collecting leaves, twigs, flowers, and stones outdoors
- Sorting and describing loose parts by texture
- Making musical shakers and a sound box from found materials
- Recreating earlier themes as loose-parts artwork
- Designing an open-ended creation from a mixed collection
You’ll need
leaves, twigs, flowers and stones, pebbles and seeds, bottle caps and buttons, beads and legumes, cartons and plastic bottles, clay and sand, paper bags, slates and crayons
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy