Esther Walker

ECE 232
10/5/2020
Sticky Wall, Yarn Sensory Experience

Class average age (in months): 10.75

Primary Objectives:
• 9 to 12 months: Creative Expression Creativity & Critical Thinking:
Explores the arts
• 9 to 12 months: Social and Emotional Development: Begins to
develop self-regulation
• 9 to 12 months: Physical development: Fine motor development

Secondary Objective(s)
• Experience the environment through senses
• Be able to entertain themselves for brief periods of time
• Pick up small objects between thumb and forefinger
• Follow simple one-word directions and copy adult actions

Experience description: Infants will develop and demonstrate fine motor

skills when they pick up the yarn and pull off the yarn from the sticky wall.
They will be developing their hand eye coordination skills all while exploring
the world with their senses.
Materials: Contact paper, packing tape (to tape the contact paper to the
wall), big thick yarn, scissors

Scaffolding (child’s prior knowledge to build on): Picking up objects and

handling them/move objects from one hand to the other.

Plan for carrying out experience (what caregiver will do): Caregiver will find
a place on the wall that is low enough for the infants to reach and tape the
contact paper there. Caregiver will provide thick yarn to the interested
infants. Caregiver will demonstrate and say, “stick” and place the yarn on
the sticky wall. Then caregiver will demonstrate how to pull off the yarn and
say, “off.”

Assessment
A. How would you be able to determine the success of this activity?
I would determine the success of this activity by the infants’ focus. Were
they interested? Were they focused?

B. Do you feel children's knowledge base will change after this

experience? (Do I see new knowledge being learned in other areas?)
I definitely feel that children’s knowledge will change after this experience.
Many developmental areas of knowledge are built on with this fun sensory
sticky wall. They are learning control over their wrists, hands, and fingers,
building their hand-eye-coordination, boosting their focus, they are learning
new cognitive skills such as problem-solving, and cause and effect.