Expressive Arts and Design

As well as an opportunity to express themselves, painting can be relaxing for children
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Expressive Arts and Design - Brush strokes

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Various tools and media were used by the children to make their own artworks
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… Minnie Pwerle’s work

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Exploring 3D objects feeds into many areas of the early years curriculum
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Expressive Arts and Design: 3D Structures: Shaping up

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Listening to and making music helps children to express their emotions and self-regulate
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Music in The Early Years - Strike a chord

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A render of the 'pre-walker and toddler zone' at the Young V&A, the new name for the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, which is to reopen after a redesign and refurbishment in 2023 PHOTO V&A
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Young V&A will ‘celebrate play’

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Find expert guidance on the revised EYFS

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EAD also links in with other areas, such as Personal, Social and Emotional Development
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Revised EYFS – In focus… Expressive arts and design

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Children are helped to build relationships with each other
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EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: R is for…relationships and resilience

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Children were excited to tell parents what they had done.
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… a rainbow shed

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Essential Resources: Music - Pitch perfect

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Activities such as spin painting can be more enjoyable for those children who are daunted by formal approaches to art
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EYFS Best Practice in schools - In the picture

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Children are introduced to, watch and take part in ballets such as The Nutcracker
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Dance - Give it a whirl

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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… making paper

Practice
A bride puppet behind a screen
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… shadows

Practice
In Japan, having autonomy in woodwork teaches the children self-regulation and self-care
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Woodwork - Touch wood

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Most of the children got very hands on with the mud
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… mud

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