Materials Required
- Pipe cleaners
- Colander or sieve.
- Dried spaghetti (optional)
- String/wool (optional)
Preparation
Prepare a space to create the bendy worms.
Method (or Ideas)
- 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.
Facilitation Tips – What To Say
- Worms
- Push/pull
- Thread
- Up and down
- Colander or strainer
- Discuss real worms and why they are so important.
Extend the Experience
- 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.
WHO Guidelines for Physical Activity & Sedentary Behaviour
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!
Early Years Learning Framework
Outcomes
- 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
Principle
Principle 1: Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Through a widening network of secure relationships, children develop confidence and feel respected and valued.
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.
