Relevant Curriculum Area/s EYLF/ELAs Creative Arts

Date: 18/11

Experience Topic: Creative Arts to focus on symmetry and

fine motor skills (cutting).

Age range: Preschool.

Rationale: The previous day, some children were telling me

about how they have been making snowflakes with their
parents at home. This gave me the idea to further the
experience of symmetry but in a different form.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Experience Outcome/Objective(s):
- Understand the concepts of symmetry.
- Understand the effects of dye wash over crayon.
Indicators:
- Children can answer questions about what will happen next (once you cut the paper
that was folded in half).
- Children can see that the crayons wont work over the dye wash but the dye wash
goes over the crayon.
Pre-requisites (prior knowledge, skills, etc.) Children need to know how to use scissors
responsibly.
Preparation and Resources:
- Paper
- Scissors
- Green dye wash
- Crayons
Some children get defensive about drawing saying they cant do it, so I need to fold
the paper in half and draw half a tree on one side and photo copy a few for the
children that wont participate without the extra support.
ACTIVITY PROCEDURE: This activity will be done on one table with a maximum of 4
people at once. This lesson will have an educator at the table at all times.
Introduction/Focusing Activity: I will be sitting at
one of the tables that we are doing this activity on,
children will be asked to join if they wish. I will show
them one that I have previously done before hand as
support.
Experience development: We will go through the
instructions one step at a time, making sure that all
children are on track. Children may need some
assistance when cutting out.
Conclusion: Once children have finished they will
place their craft on the drying rack. Once they have
all dried I will bring them home and put a hole on the
top and tie string through it so they can place it on
their Christmas tree.

EVALUATION:
This lesson actually worked out
really well. Most children
understood the concept of
symmetry after I explained what
was happening when we opened up
both the sides of the Christmas
tree.
Some troubles I faced was with the
childrens cutting skills, I was
expecting straighter lines. So most
of the trees didnt look like trees at
the end but that doesnt matter.
Another trouble I had with the
children was the participation

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES: Work sample of a

completed Christmas tree is attached.

towards this activity, not everyone

in the class wanted to participate.

ASSOCIATE EDUCATOR EVALUATION:

Further development/follow up: next week we will be creating another Christmas

decoration since they really enjoyed this one and some students even completed it more
than once. The next decoration will be 3-dimentional instead of only being a 2-dimentional
decoration.