CHCPR1CDeliver Services/ Activities to

Stimulate Children’s Development and Enhance their Leisure

Elements• Create a stimulating, positive and

developmentally appropriate environment to foster development, play and leisure.

• Actively guide and encourage children to undertake a variety of developmentally appropriate activities.

• Facilitate play and leisure.

ELEMENT ONE

Create a stimulating, positive and developmentally

appropriate environment to foster development, play

and leisure.

What is play?

Definition Of Play

• Play is the key to every child's well being. Children learn about the world and experience life through play. One definition of play is "the spontaneous activity of children." Through play, children practice the roles they will play later in life.

Mary F. LongoExtension Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, Marion County

What is leisure ?

DefinitionOf

Leisure

• Time available for ease and relaxation

http://www.elook.org/dictionary/play.html

• Freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity

http://www.elook.org/dictionary/play.html

Stages of playUnoccupied

The behaviour of a child when he/she watches others at play, but does not enter their play

Onlooker The child takes in interest other children’s play. They do

so by moving closer, asking questions and making suggestions

Solitary The child plays alone with no attempt to play with others

• ParallelThe child will play alongside another engaged in similar play but with no interaction

Associative The child will play alongside others but each child plays for themselves with no common goal

Co-operative The child plays in a group with a common goal. Each player has a role to play and within the group there are leaders and followers

The value of Play

Play is essential for a child’s basic development in physical, social, emotional

and cognitive areas. Through play;

• Children learn about themselves.

• They learn about the world around them.

• They learn how to solve problems.

What other values can you think play offers?

Providing a stimulating Environment

• Group discussion

• Set up of play spaces

• Discuss aspects of Imaginative play spaces:

Providing a Safe Environment

• Discuss aspects for consideration for the following age groups;

• 0-2

• 2-3

• 3-6

• Family grouping

ELEMENT TWO Actively guide and encourage children to

undertake a variety of developmentally appropriate activities

Considerations• Walking inside• Be aware of activities that require close supervision, such as

scissors• Avoid loud unnecessary noise indoors to maximise your

supervision• Adequate lighting• Create rules with the children’s input• Reinforce rules these by telling children what you want them to do

rather than what they are doing that’s inappropriate. Eg “Tim, show me how you walk inside” instead of “Stop Running!”

• Ensure all areas all clean, clear and hygienic

Providing a Variety of Experiences

• WaterLearned skills • Pouring• Tipping• Pumping• Siphoning• Spraying

Learning concepts• Capacity• Volume• Floating & sinking• Wetness & dryness• Force and pressure• Vaporisation and condensation

Earth Area• Gardening

• Dirt patch

• Environmental

• Indoor Outdoor program

Dramatic play

• Remember Socio cultural aspects and context to the child and children within you group.

• What ideas have evolved within your workplace and group of children over the past month.

• What and who initiated the idea’s for role play?

Music and Drama

• Room to move• Children to participate• Special guests• Use props

1.Instruments- bought and made2.Scarves3.Climbing equipment4.Balloons5.Bubbles6.Music/ c.d’s7.Multicultural music and resources

Story telling• Let’s share in a story telling experience.

• Use books and tell stories and poems form memory.

• Know the story or poem. Read it prior to reading for children and enjoy it yourself first. Practice reading out loud.

• Use an appropriate tone of voice. • Show emotion in your voice• Use props such as puppets

Art/Creative PlayExperiences

• Finger paint• Brush paining• Marbelling• Collage• Tearing• Pasting• Cutting• Sponging• Mosaics• Origami

Stages of Development in Art

• Manipulative (scribble) Stage – (1-3 years)Sub stage 1 - disordered scribble (below) Sub stage 2 – controlled scribble

Symbolic (Named scribble) Stage – (3-4 years)Sub stage 3 – basic shapes (below)

Substage 4 – combined – shapes

Representational (Pictorial) Stage – (4-7 years)Sub stage 5 – humans

Sub stage 6 – animals (below)Sub stage 7 – trees/ flowers

Sub stage 8 - pictures

• Please draw some examples:

Displaying art work• Display all children’s artwork• Display it at their eye level• Discuss their work with others• Encourage all efforts• Display it creatively1.Add borders2.Coloured backing 3.Mount board4.Framing

Outdoors• It is unfortunate that children can't design their outdoor play

environments. Research on children's preferences shows that if children had the design skills to do so, their creations would be completely different from the areas called playgrounds that most adults design for them. Outdoor spaces designed by children would not only be fully naturalized with plants, trees, flowers, water, dirt, sand, mud, animals and insects, but also would be rich with a wide variety of play opportunities of every imaginable type. If children could design their outdoor play spaces, they would be rich developmentally appropriate learning environments where children would want to stay all day. http://www.whitehutchinson.com/children/articles/outdoor.shtml

• Outdoor experiences are as important as indoor experiences• Set up experiences and re set experiences

Setting Up ExperiencesPoints to Consider

• The experience/ activity• The value of the experience• The objectives for the children• Number of children• Seated or standing• Location• Supervision• Equipment• Presentation• How children enter experience• How they exit experiences• How to re-set experience• Adult interaction/ language

ELEMENT THREE

Facilitate children’s play and leisure.

Excursion and incursions• What is involved when planning an

excursion or incursion?

• Why would you consider offering one ?

Care Givers Role• Praise all efforts- let the children know

what they have done that you are proud of. Eg “I really like the way you put all of the blocks away today, you put them all in the right spot, thankyou Tim” instead of “good boy” Tim

Do You?• Let the children initiate play• Provide age appropriate experiences• Provide a safe environment• Build on children’s ideas• Play as an equal partner• Provide experiences that will challenge and stimulate• Model desired behaviour• Redirect children• Allow time• Facilitate conflict resolution• Never tell a child what to do or how they should participate• Evaluate the experience and modify if necessary