Bendy worms!
Bendy worms!
Threading pipe cleaners through a colander or strainer
Materials Required
- Pipe cleaners
- Colander or sieve.
Dried spaghetti, String/wool.
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime5 - 15 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelQuiet Play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Prepare a space to create the bendy worms,Experience Steps
- Talk to your child about threading.
- Show your child the colander or strainer and how it has holes in it.
- Play alongside your child to thread the pipe cleaners/string/wool up through the colander or strainer.
- Talk about worms and how these are bendy worms.
- Talk about how real worms pop up from the dirt when you are digging in the garden.
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- Worms
- Push/pull
- Thread
- Up and down
- Colander or strainer
- Discuss real worms and why they are so important.
Build on this...
- Encourage your child to thread using other kitchen implements that you can find together in the kitchen.
- Do some research about real worms using technology and go for a search for worms in your garden.
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This is a quiet activity that promotes fine motor skills. To engage in a more physically active experience, go for a walk in your garden to find some real worms!
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
- Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
EYLF Principle
Principle 1: Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Through a widening network of secure relationships, children develop confidence and feel respected and valued.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.
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