Expressive arts and design

Expressive Arts and Design

Children explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. They are provided with opportunities and encouragement to share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play and design and technology.

Vocabulary children will be regularly exposed to through Expressive Arts and Design

Cutting, cut

Stamp, stamping

Scissors

Paint, painting

Dance, dancing

Drawing, draw

Junk modelling

Tools

Play dough

Messy play

Glitter

Sand

Water

Mud kitchen

Easel

Sing, singing, song

Music

Movement

Expression

Puppets

Stories

Nursery rhymes

Poems

Beat to music

Build, construct

Explore

Investigate

 

Early Learning Goals

ELG: Creating with Materials

Children at the expected level of development will:

  • 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; and
  • make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.

ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive

Children at the expected level of development will:

  • invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher;
  • sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs; and
  • perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music.