Curriculum Experience Plan

Name Robyn Olsen

Activity/Experience Name _____Tape Painting - Art Experience Plan __________

INTENTIONS FOR LEARNING

Goal(s): Describe the general or long-term developmental focus of this experience.
List the California Preschool Learning Foundation(s) or California Infant/Toddler Learning
and Development Foundation(s) here:

This experience is planned to engage the children, develop skills and allow the children to
express themselves with increasing creativity, complexity, and depth through two-dimensional
and three-dimensional visual art.

Objectives: What specific and observable concepts or skills will the child learn, explore, or
discover? The child will be able to List the Preschool DRDP Measure(s) or Infant/Toddler
DRDP measure(s) here:

TCWBAT experiment with tools and materials for painting (two-dimensional), sometimes
representing a concrete thing.
VPS 1: Visual Art, Building Earlier

TCWBAT create two-dimensional representations to show action or how things relate to one
another, using detail, shape, color, or organization.
VPA 1: Visual Art, Building Later

EXPERIENCE PLAN
Activity Description:

The children will use different sized tape to make designs on paper and then use primary colors
to paint over the tape. Using the primary colors, they can mix them together to make other color
combinations as well. When the paint is dry, they will peel the tape off and see what designs and
shapes theyve made.

Invitational Set-up: How will the experience be presented to invite participation or provoke
interest? (Provide a photograph of the set-up).

Talking to them about primary colors and color combinations to get them thinking about what they
will make, and then introducing the idea of using tape and what might happen if they put tape
down on the paper first.
Specific vocabulary, teaching strategies, and open-ended questions you will keep in mind
(Using your textbook and/or Curriculum Frameworks, list specific ways you will promote
problem-solving and critical thinking beyond a simple recall of facts):

Specific vocabulary to offer: primary colors, empty space, masking tape

Possible questions: What color combinations can you make out of red, blue and yellow? What is
your favorite color? Will you do more than one color on the paper? What will happen if we put
tape down before we paint?

Possible teaching strategies: Talk to them about the length of the tape and show them on my own
paper different kinds of designs Im doing so they can get ideas. Leave open spaces on the paint
palette so they can mix colors.

How is this experience personalized (i.e. modified) to meet the varying developmental and
individual needs of the children in your class? (e.g., older children, younger children,
specific needs or interests?)

Each child will get to paint anything they want. They even have the option of not using the tape if
they dont want to, (but the point of the activity is to see the negative space).

Specific materials needed that are not already accessible to children:

Paint, brushes, paper, tape.

 REFLECTION/EVALUATION

What did you do well?

Explained the activity well and helped the children understand the purpose of the tape. I also
helped them with mixing colors and verbally encouraged their deductive reasoning skills and
creative abilities.

How did the children respond to the experience presented? (Describe your observations
of childrens words and actions) What worked? What was difficult? Were there any
surprises?

They loved that we were doing an art activity! Especially since it was an outdoor day, they
were glad to have an extra activity besides the usual outdoor games they play.

One thing that worked well was doing it right along with them, instead of just explaining
what to do and watching them do it on their own. They loved that I participated.

Something difficult was keeping them from using too much paint. One child put so much
paint that we were not able to peel off the tape later on.

I was surprised at how well they comprehended the activity and understood the purpose.

What additions or changes would you make if you were to do this activity again? What did
the children teach you (e.g. about curriculum, teaching, or children)?

If I did this activity again, I would restrict their access to more paint so that they dont end up with
gobs of it over the tape. Peeling the tape off the dry paper is half the fun of the activity!