Creative Development

The main goals of creative development are the following:

• Enjoys singing and dancing activities
• Sings some familiar songs
• Explores different sounds in instruments
• Moves in response to music and has sense of rhythm
• Explores how sounds can change e.g. tapping to music with a wooden ladle in one hand and a steel spoon in the other hand
• Explores colours and how they change when mixed
• Understands that lines can enclose and begin to draw shapes
• Uses the same concept to make enclosed spaces with blocks and other playthings
• Beginning to describe the feel of the texture
• Uses textured things in creative work
• Uses variety of objects to construct things
• Stacks different shaped blocks and tries to balance them
• Understands that different tools can be used for a purpose
• Makes up simple songs by self
• Moves spontaneously to music
• Engages in imaginative play and imitates an adult they have observed
• Builds stories around the toys they are playing with e.g. A doll who has a fever and is taken to the doctor
• Uses available resources imaginatively e.g. makes a tent by overturning a table and covering it with a sheet OR sits under an umbrella and calls it a tent
• Uses a variety of ways to express e.g. music, movement, painting, words etc.

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