EYFS Humpty Dumpty Expressive Arts and Design

EYFS Humpty Dumpty Expressive Arts and Design

This Humpty Dumpty expressive arts and design activity is adult-led with a clear and easy to follow structure. There are three activities which include creating a collage using different materials, making a jigsaw of Humpty Dumpty and using musical instruments to represent different sections of the rhyme. A session could involve all the activities or a selection based on the needs of the children.

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Development Matters and Early Learning Goal Links:
3 and 4 year olds
Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them.
Create closed shapes with continuous lines, and begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details.
Show different emotions in their drawings – happiness, sadness, fear, etc.
Remember and sing entire songs.
Play instruments with increasing control to express their feelings and ideas.

Children in Reception
Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.
Sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following the melody.
Explore and engage in music making and dance, performing solo or in groups.

Early Learning Goal
Physical Development
Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery.
Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing. 

Expressive Arts and Design
Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.
Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.
Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and, when appropriate, try to move in time with music.

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