SENSORY EXPERIENCE: FUN PAINT

AGE: 5 - 16 months
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: As the students engage in this activity, they will be able to practice
their social skills, work with most of their senses (smell, sight, hearing, and touch), use
their motor and hand-to-eye coordination skills.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: this activity will encourage children to work on their imaginative
play
EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION: In the outdoor area, there will be a butcher paper taped on top
of the table. Shaving cream mixed with food coloring is set up next to the table. The
students are to play around with this “fun paint” and paint it all over the paper.
MATERIALS: Shaving cream, food coloring, fingers, paper
SCAFFOLDING: Most of the children in the classroom were mobile enough to play around with
paints, stickers, crayons, etc., therefore, painting with shaving cream should be
appropriate for them to handle
PLAN FOR CARRYING OUT EXPERIENCE: the caregiver will wait once the students are
ready to go outside. Once they are outside, children who are mobile enough (can walk,
crawl, run) may walk to the table. Once they are at the table, the caregiver can watch
these students go to town with the foamy paint.
OUTCOME: In this activity, the outcome was bittersweet. It was sweet because the students
seemed interested and engaged. They definitely enjoyed the texture and the way the
shaving cream felt in their hands while they were smearing it all over the paper. The
students also had fun ripping and tearing the taped paper since it was getting wet from the
rain. The bitter side of this activity was how the children would put the shaving cream in
their mouths. I found this activity to be fun but somewhat inappropriate for children
around this age. The head teacher said that the children definitely enjoyed it and it was
appropriate but it was just too intensive for the caregiver. Since I was using shaving
cream, and the children were still on the younger side, they are more prone into putting
things into their mouths and I should have put that into consideration. This activity
 requires teachers to intensely watch the children as they explore and learn this shaving
cream which may hinder the students from learning.
ASSESSMENT
A. HOW DO I DETERMINE THE SUCCESS OF THIS ACTIVITY?
- from what I thought I have seen, it was not very much successful as the children really were
just putting it in their mouths, although on the other hand, the head teacher explained that the
activity went great as the students were really engaged in it. They definitely enjoyed the tex-
ture of the shaving cream
- Therefore, in order to determine if this activity was somewhat a success, the students must at
least enjoy it or show interest and it seemed that they did enjoy it and were most definitely
interested.
B. DID CHILDREN CHANGE KNOWLEDGE BASED ON THIS EXPERIENCE?
- After the activity ended, I did not necessarily see any changes with their knowledge but then
again, I cannot just see the changes in the knowledge in just a quick second. Therefore, they
may have been learning and obtaining some knowledge, it is just minuscule at this point.
NEXT STEP: the children were not really ready for this certain activity but only because of the
materials that was used. The students were able to smear and spread paint all over the
paper where they should be smeared but since they are within the infants age, they are
still putting things in their mouths in order to learn and explore. If I were to do this type
of activity, I will steer away from using shaving cream and maybe use something that is
edible