DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAIN CONCEPT MAP

PHYSICAL: Fine Motor CREATIVE / AESTHETIC PHYSICAL: Gross Motor

- Changing colour Oobleck. - Shaving cream painting - Colour hunt around the classroom/ centre.
- Making sun/ light sun catchers. - Celery/ flower tie die. - Colour dance with coloured ribbons.
- Colour surprise eruptions - Colour mixing with coloured ice cubes. - Light hunt
- Paint bags Coloured stepping stones.
- Colour frizzing sensory with vinegar and bicarb soda. -
- Coloured pasta sensory bin - Torch play
- Painting with colour.
- Water beads.
- Whisking coloured sensory soap.
- Colour salt tray.
- Colourful sensory bag drawing- children will - Making coloured shadows.
choose an item out of the treasure bag. And - Mix it up. Mixing coloured paint together to make different
verbally express what the object is and the colour, colours.
and then be asked to draw that item. - Creating Kaleidoscopes.
- Colour pompom sort.
- Balloon splatter painting.
- Rainbow jars.
- Lava Lamp
- Water drops on coloured paper.

Concept: Colour and Light Term: 3 Weeks: 2

PERSONAL / SOCIAL / SPIRITUAL / MORAL
EMOTIONAL - Make colourful mandalas with nature.
COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE - Create painted rocks.
- Making Rainbows.
- Children’s literature “Mix It Up. By Herve Tullet”, “Elmer. By - Stretching with coloured fabric (Yoga).
David McKee”. ‘Little Blue and Little Yellow, By Leo Lionni’.
- Reading children’s literature.
- Light box play ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’.
- - Meditation
- Hidden colours- treasure bucket.
- Colour mixing with light: supplying small torches then get students - Children’s Stories ‘A Colour of His Own’
- Use paint swatches to find the colours in the
to cover them with a different colour of cellophane sheets cut in By Leo Lionni.
natural environment around the centre and in the
halves. - ‘You are Light’ By Aaron Becker.
classroom. - Play dough mixing.
- Colour sorting game. - ‘Yeti, Turn Out the Light!’ By Greg Long.
- Water Beads on the light table. Children are able to state what is
- Dramatic Play area. - ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ By Eric
occurring to the colours.
Carle.
- Mirror portraits. - Coloured sensory tubs- Loose materials placed in a tub for sensory
play and interaction/ communication opportunities. - ‘Birds of a Colour’ ‘Press Here’ Herve’
- Light sensory bags.
Tullet.