DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAIN CONCEPT MAP
PHYSICAL: Fine Motor
 Counting shells
 Making patterns with shells
 Playing with water beads
 Painting
 Ocean play dough
 Sensory play tub –
shells/sand/seaweed (textures)
 Under the sea slime
 Shell painting
 Beach sand play dough
 Sensory sea foam play
PERSONAL / SOCIAL /
EMOTIONAL
 Singing songs
 Paper fish puppets
 Starfish cookies
 Beach treasure hunt
 Pool noodle boat race
 Reading literature based on the sea
 Collaboration making a collage
 Team work to play a game
 Sharing the different activities and
materials
CREATIVE / AESTHETIC
 Sensory under the sea tub
 Coloured sand canvas painting
 Making sea creatures out of play dough
 Collage
 Ocean waves discovery bottle (oil and blue water)
 Making own rock pool
Concept: UNDER THE SEA
Term: 3 Weeks: 4
COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE
 Book corner (under the sea theme)
 Games/ puzzles
 Float/ sink activity
 Apple boat
 Salt water density experiment
 Ocean discovery jar
 Categorising land/ sea animals
 Search and find sensory tub
PHYSICAL: Gross Motor
 Collecting different items
from the beach
 Excursion
 Running in the sand
 Ocean animal movement
game (role play)
 Beach treasure hunt
SPIRITUAL / MORAL
 Recycling activity
 Creating own clean and dirty jars
 Ocean related recycling sensory
tub
 Sorting items that belong in the
ocean and what doesn’t
 Filtering dirty water jars
 Listening to ocean sounds
 Meditation listening to waves
 Display of recyclable objects