Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas
Introduce language that enables children to talk about their experiences in greater depth and detail.
Provide children with examples of how other people have responded to experiences, engage them in discussions of these examples and help them to make links and connections.
Provide and organise resources and materials so children can make their own choices in order to express their ideas.
Be sensitive to the needs of children who may not be able to express themselves easily in English, using interpreter support from known adults, or strategies such as picture cards to enable children to express preferences.
Exploring Media and Materials
Provide resources for mixing colours, joining things together and combining materials, demonstrating where appropriate.
Introduce pieces of wood, stone, rock or seaweed for children to feel and discover.
Provide children with opportunities to use their skills and explore concepts and ideas through their representations.
Have a 'holding bay' where 2D and 3D models and works can be retained for a period for children to enjoy, develop, or refer to.
Block play - In a nursery school, a small group of children work together on a large construction, and afterwards their work-in-progress is cordoned off, showing that their achievement is respected. [transcript]
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Creating Music and Dance
Extend children's experience and expand their imagination through the provision of pictures, paintings, poems, music, dance and story.
Provide a stimulus for imaginative recreation and composition by introducing atmospheric features in the role-play area, such as the sounds of rain beating on a roof, or placing a spotlight to suggest a stage set. Provide curtains and place dressing-up materials and instruments close by.
Developing Imagination and Imaginative Play
Make materials accessible so that children are able to imagine and bring to fruition their projects and ideas while they are still fresh in their minds and important to them.
Provide opportunities indoors and outdoors and support the different interests of children, for example, in role-play of a builder's yard, encourage narratives to do with building and mending.
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