D&T Resource File EYFS

Theme 1: Myself gives children the time and opportunity to develope a sense of personal autonomy and become aware of the importance of clothes and being clean and tidy. It contains comprehensive plans for both freeplay and focused activities:

Keeping clean, looking smart:

• Washing our clothes
• Where does the water flow?
• Bubble machines
• Necklaces
• Extended learning through play

Keeping warm, staying cool:

• Keeping warm
• Exploring fabrics
• Looking at clothes
• Designer clothes
• Quangle wangle hats
• Extended learnging through play
• Dancing dollies

Theme 2: Our places and spaces encourages continuity of learning between home and school, investigates outdoor spaces and enables children to think about special buildings in the community. It contains comprehensive plans for both freeplay and focused activities:

Homes:

• Home-making
• Sitting comfortably
• Chairs for our toys
• Cupboards
• Caring for our pets
• Farm, zoo or safari park
• A home for someone new
• Huff and puff
• Extending learning through play

Gardens:

• Sowing seeds and growing plants
• Miniature gardens
• A courtyard garden
• How to feed wild birds
• Wind-catchers
• Design activities using other media
• Extending learning through play

Special places:

• Design a town or village
• Recycling bins
• Castle visit
• Dream dwellings
• Extending learning through play

Theme 3: Having fun is full of design activities that focus on children's personal and shared special days like birthdays, Diwali and Bonfire night. There are plenty of opportunities for children to make simple working models and to experiment with materials in free play and focused lessons.

Special days:

• Giving presents
• Festival foods
• Greetings cards
• Extending learning through play

Show time:

• Show time
• Masks
• Hats
• Balancing
• Miss Trepeze
• Making music
• Puppets
• Puppet theatre
• Extending learning through play

Theme 4: Food includes an introduction to food technology, with health and safety notes, guidance on working with parents and cleaning materials. Design discussions extend children's understanding of shopping, tasting and teaches them how baked products are made and how to make healthy foods.

In the baker's shop:

• Enjoying bread
• Making yeast-risen buns
• Extended learning through play

Chips with everything!:

• Chips with everything (songs & rhymes, identifying potatoes, growing spuds)
• Extending learning through play

Fruity-tooty:

• Fruit salad
• Making jellies
• Further fruit-based foods

Teddy's picnic:

• Day 1: Shopping for the ingredients
• Day 2: The picnic
• Making a take-away

Theme 5: Travelling is full of design learning activities that focus on wheeled vehicles.

Wheels go round:

• Vehicles
• Wheelabouts
• Machines that do the heavy work
• Bicycle Day
• A ride on a steam train
• How do you wask the car?
• Extending learning through play

In all directions:

• London Bridge is falling down
• Who's that crossing over my bridge?
• Messing about with boats
• Spinners, helicopters and planes
• Parachutes and kites
• Hang gliders
• Extending learning through play

Theme 6: We have the power contains fun and focused design activities that look at a range of machines and mechanisms that are familiar to small chilren and festivals and celebrations involving light

In control:

• Tock boxes
• Simple mechanisms
• Ghostly mechanisms
• A chocolate-making machine
• Mobiles
• Watemill visit
• Further focused design activities
• Magnetic attraction
• Playgrounds and funfairs

Light fantastic:

• Reflections
• Kaleidoscopes
• Shadows
• Rainbow windows
• Candlelight
• Turn on the lights
• Chinese lanterns