ACTIVITY: Veggie Stamping
DATE IMPLEMENTED: Tuesday14/5/13
MATERIALS REQUIRED:
painting easel, A3 brown paper primary colour paints plus black and white for shading, vegetables (tomato, capsicum, celery base, onion), plastic tubs and sponges to absorb the paint, art smock, bucket of soapy water and sponge for cleaning, permanent marker for writing names.
GROUPINGS/SPACE: This activity is primarily a solo activity with opportunities to support learning and communicate with peers using the opposite easel. The easel is situated on the tiles with enough surrounding empty space for moving traffic.
SUPERVISION: With an adult watching the child’s learning can be scaffolded and encouraged, whilst their peers can look and offer positive feedback and suggestions.
LEARNING EXPERIENCE: With this activity hands will get dirty. Using the vegetables takes something known from a familiar setting into an uncommon area, provoking interest and intrigues
RELATION TO EYLF PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES:
EYLF OUTCOMES:
REFLECTION:
EVALUATION:
OBSERVATIONS:
CONTINUATION: As the veggie stamping was successful and caught the interest of students who don’t always independently choose to go to the painting easel, the activity or provocation was implemented again with a couple of variations. Rather than the aboriginal painting and the veggie stamping activities being separate they were combined together through the placement of materials. The theme started with primary colours yesterday. Colours in the pallets were mixed by the children to make green and grey. These colours were reused today furthering the idea of colour mixing. Yesterday’s veggies were reused, along with the addition of a broccoli, celery stalks, a kiwi fruit and a sponge which I had cut, rolled and tied together. The broccoli gave another texture again, while the kiwi promoted the idea of rolling. I had presumed that the children would only stamp, so it was a nice surprise to see them covering every side of the kiwi to roll the hairy surface over their page. The painting of rainbow serpents using all the colours continued, along with colour mixing, stamping, dotting, lines with the addition of sponging and rolling with an emphasis on encouraging children to write their own names.
DATE IMPLEMENTED: Tuesday14/5/13
MATERIALS REQUIRED:
painting easel, A3 brown paper primary colour paints plus black and white for shading, vegetables (tomato, capsicum, celery base, onion), plastic tubs and sponges to absorb the paint, art smock, bucket of soapy water and sponge for cleaning, permanent marker for writing names.
GROUPINGS/SPACE: This activity is primarily a solo activity with opportunities to support learning and communicate with peers using the opposite easel. The easel is situated on the tiles with enough surrounding empty space for moving traffic.
SUPERVISION: With an adult watching the child’s learning can be scaffolded and encouraged, whilst their peers can look and offer positive feedback and suggestions.
LEARNING EXPERIENCE: With this activity hands will get dirty. Using the vegetables takes something known from a familiar setting into an uncommon area, provoking interest and intrigues
RELATION TO EYLF PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES:
EYLF OUTCOMES:
REFLECTION:
EVALUATION:
OBSERVATIONS:
CONTINUATION: As the veggie stamping was successful and caught the interest of students who don’t always independently choose to go to the painting easel, the activity or provocation was implemented again with a couple of variations. Rather than the aboriginal painting and the veggie stamping activities being separate they were combined together through the placement of materials. The theme started with primary colours yesterday. Colours in the pallets were mixed by the children to make green and grey. These colours were reused today furthering the idea of colour mixing. Yesterday’s veggies were reused, along with the addition of a broccoli, celery stalks, a kiwi fruit and a sponge which I had cut, rolled and tied together. The broccoli gave another texture again, while the kiwi promoted the idea of rolling. I had presumed that the children would only stamp, so it was a nice surprise to see them covering every side of the kiwi to roll the hairy surface over their page. The painting of rainbow serpents using all the colours continued, along with colour mixing, stamping, dotting, lines with the addition of sponging and rolling with an emphasis on encouraging children to write their own names.