ART MAKING:

1) From Birth-2:
a) Learning outcomes:
- Outcome 1:
+ Children feel safe, secure and supported: They can freely express their idea and
enjoy being creative.
- Outcome 4:
+ Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence,
creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity: they can
learn about the shapes while simply playing with colours and papers.
+ Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry,
experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating: they learn how to put
the circles in the paper which can be a quite troublesome at first for the children.
b) Resources:
- White paper/ cardboard/ ball
- Small round pieces of paper with different colours
- Glue
c) Activities to be undertaken:
- The children can choose a paper or cardboard or ball.
- They can pick coloured round papers.
- Then they can stick the round small papers on the chosen paper or cardboard or ball to
decorate it.
- They can decide on the colours and how many of them that they want to put in as well
as the design of the chosen material.
d) Assessment:
- The children can finish their chosen paper or cardboard or ball with the small pieces of
round paper.
- They can recognise the polka dot pattern.

2) For 3-5:
a) Learning outcomes:
- Outcome 2:
+ Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment: The
children will reflect their observations of the nature around them and recycle the dead
plants or any waste they can collect.
- Outcome 4:
+ Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence,
creativity,commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity: They can
freely express their creativity.
+ Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry,
experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating: They can learn to
overcome the difficulties in researching for materials and how to incorporate them.
b) Resources:
- Dead flowers or leaves.
- Any waste: cans, boxes, used paper
- Crayons and paints
- A3 paper
- Glue
c) Activities to be undertaken:
- Children to create an artwork of any natural scene that they have observed by choosing
the most important features.
- Incorporating all the materials that they have collected.
- They can finish up and decorate the rest by using crayons or paints.
d) Assessment:
- The children have the idea of what scene they want to reflect. It indicates their
observations of surrounding environment.
- They can bring to class all the materials. There is no limit or requirements on the
materials so they can bring anything they want and can find around their living area.
- They can incorporate all or most of the materials in the artwork.