Lesson Plan Collage Topic: Collage Creating Caterpillars Outcomes: from the VEYLD Framework.

k. #1- Children have a sense of identity #4- Children are confident and involved learners. LESSON OBJECTIVES:
After being read The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle children that take an interest in bugs should be able to investigate caterpillars. This lesson is about how children can learn to paint a caterpillar of their own. This can be so that children are exploring their own interests, bugs in general or caterpillars specifically. Children will learn how to manipulate materials with paint that they wouldnt normally use to paint.

Ages: 3-5

LESSON STRUCTURE:
Materials Water balloons Paint A3 pieces of paper Crepe paper Glue Instructions 1. Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to the group of children. 2. Get them in small groups to participate in this activity so that they can focus on what they want to do. 3. Provide the children with a sheet of A3 paper each. 4. Fill up all the water balloons in the packet to different sizes; make some of them small, some big, and in between. 5. Allow children to use many different colours of paint. By dipping the balloons into the paint and then printing it onto the paper in the shape of the caterpillars body. They can repeat this printing over a few times to complete the body. 6. The children can use the balloon in any way they want to make the body such as dragging the balloon across the page or printing individual circles, rolling the balloon across the page. 7. Allow the children to play as the paintings dry. 8. When they are dry get the children to play with the crepe paper and add to the painting what they thing the body needs, such as legs or antenna. Add the crepe paper additions to the page by gluing them. 9. Let the glue dry and get the children to take them home.

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS
A safety consideration would be if children are able to use scissors. The scissors that the school provides should be safety/blunt scissors so that children cannot injure themselves while cutting up any of the materials.

ASSESSMENT
Outcome #1 Children can be interested in a story about caterpillars so they might investigate what a caterpillar looks like. Children can explore caterpillars throughout their whole design and creating of this caterpillar. Children can create their own caterpillar with different colours like blue, pink, yellow, and other colours that wouldnt be on a caterpillar. This could be the children expressing their identity and flair through their interpretation of a caterpillar. Outcome #4 While their painted bodies are drying the children might go home and investigate what a caterpillar needs on its body. If the children are really interested in caterpillars then they might want to find out more facts about caterpillars like what they really eat and where they live. There isnt any particular way to assess this activity. However, writing an observation for each child and how involved they were in making the caterpillar. It could be noted if the children took interest in caterpillars or bugs and how they expressed this interest.

REFERENCES
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (2009), Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework for Children Birth to Eight Years. DEECD and VCAA, Melbourne. www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/earlychildhood/learning/veyldframework.pdf