Recycling project to explore and investigate USING pumpkins, spiders, bats and super heroes in the Autumn term

My project- 

Recycling and reusing

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1. I found a large 'reel' at the local 'tip'....

(expressive arts)

                    

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I covered the reel with fabric from my collection at home

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5.And....added interesting Japanese print 

6.The finished product- A 'new' table for children to play from, add resources to ..at child's height.

7.Children add resources and engage in imaginative play

Links to the EYFS - EYFS http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2012/03/Development-Matters-FINAL-PRINT-AMENDED.pdf-

Expressive arts

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Pumpkins and the colour O R A N G E

Pumpkins were every where for a few weeks. The children enjoyed tactile activities where they were either scooping out the insides and pumpkin seeds and flesh etc and using it to 'cook' in the mud kitchen, or drawing funny faces on them. 
Links to the EYFS - EYFS http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2012/03/Development-Matters-FINAL-PRINT-AMENDED.pdf-
Understanding the world

Bats

The children were interested and fascinated by bats that we read about in our fiction books.

'Why do bats hang upside down?' 

'What do bats eat?'

'Are bats blind?'

Spiders came to visit us. We wrote a story board about a spider that 'came along' and fascinated the children while they were engaging in exciting activities. Some children made their own spiders out of clay and pipe cleaners whilst others painted spiders with different colour paints.


S.t.r.e.t.c.h.i.n.g imaginations with literacy and listening..


We read 'room on a broom' and added brooms, rubber bats and small spiders to our area that had a cauldron, small brooms and a black pointy hat. Gentle play involving lots of cooking of 'potions' and pretending to fly on a broom with a dog, a bird and a frog. 

Links to the EYFS - EYFS http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2012/03/Development-Matters-FINAL-PRINT-AMENDED.pdf-
PSED- making relationships 30-50 months

•Can play in a group, extending and elaborating play ideas, e.g. building up a role-play activity with other children. 

• Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them. 

•Keeps play going by responding to what others are saying or doing

Fine motor skills practiced while we do threading.

I made some threading cards using a superhero theme, representing both male and female genders. The children enjoy threading the laces to make patterns. It takes a lot of concentration to complete the threading, and it teaches children fine motor skills such as gripping the thread with small fingers and guiding the end through a small hole to pick it up and pull through. Many children feel a sense of achievement once they complete the threading as it is something most can do, even if they only thread through one or two holes, it is an open-ended activity because they can start and end when they like.

Links to the EYFS - EYFS http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2012/03/Development-Matters-FINAL-PRINT-AMENDED.pdf-
PSED- making relationships 30-50 months

•Can play in a group, extending and elaborating play