Displays and Interest Tables

Jayne Olpin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781134023059
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Conveying how collections and displays can become the focus for much discussion and debate in circle time, and how they can be linked to other play areas and themes running throughout the nursery, Displays and Interest Tables helps you to:

• demonstrate the value of young children's efforts
• stimulate learning through two-and three-dimensional displays
• create exciting visual features for your setting.

Discussion resources

The following section provides a range of photographs to stimulate discussion with children about or prior to creating display, broadening their knowledge of presentation and encouraging thought, memory and description.

Have you played in the snow?

What can you see happening in this picture?

Do you know what this animals is?

Where might we find them?

What comes after autumn?

What is happening in this picture? How would you design a balloon?

What is this? What can you tell me about it?

Have you seen flowers like these?

What do you see?

What could we do with these?

Do you know what each of these is called?

What different patterns can you see?

How would these feel to touch?

What sort of display could we make on this background?

What sort of display could we make on this background?

What sort of display could we make on this background?

What sort of display could we make on this background?

Activities

The following pages contain 24 different activities using creative skills for display. Each activity follows a standard format to ensure ease of planning and implementation:

• the resources needed

• the aim(s)/concept(s)

• the process

• group size

• discussion ideas/language

• extension ideas

• links to the Foundation Stage Curriculum.

Key to Foundation Stage Curriculum abbreviations:

(SS)	Stepping stones
ELG	Early learning goals
PSE	Personal, social and emotional development
CLL	Communication, language and literacy
MD	Mathematical development
KUW	Knowledge and understanding of the world
PD	Physical development
CD	Creative development

ACTIVITY

1

Counting boxes

Resources you will need

• Ten boxes of different sizes

• Numbers 1 to 10

• Dots in groups of 1, 2, 3 … 10 drawn on paper

• Sellotape

• Buttons, compare bears or similar items to group into the boxes

Aim/concept

• To begin to experiment with numbers and counting

Process

• Discuss with the children the items you have collected.

• Look at the numbers 1 to 10. Count them with the children.

• Look at the groups of dots and encourage the children to match the dots to the numbers.

• Talk about the sizes of the boxes and comparing them.

• Explain to the children that they are going to stick the numbers on to the tops of the boxes and the dots to the same value on to the bottoms. When they have done this the children will...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Ready, Steady, Play!
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Displays and Interest Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Discussion resources
• Activities
• Photocopiable sheets
• Useful resource suppliers and websites