Childcare Peer facilitations - St Particks day hat


Name and image/s of the Activity 

St. Patrick’s Day Hat Variations

Materials used:

Coloured Card
Stickers
Glue
Scissors
Pom Pom
Buttons

Time plan: 

10-10:30am


Room and/or equipment requirements:
Art room and equipment needed card, glue, pencil, and stickers and buttons.

General Aim of activity – What will the final outcome be? ie. ‘To make an aeroplane with cardboard’ box.
To make hats using card and using the different seasons or times of the year to create your own hat. Example the St. Patricks day hat.

Specific Learning outcomes of the activity – What will be learned by doing the activity? Ie. ‘To use fine motor skills using the scissors’ 
The children will learn to create something from using just card and being able to decorate it.

Steps for making or doing activity:
Use images with short captions 

Step1: Fold a piece of paper in a cylinder shape and stick using glue
Step 2: using that cylinder draw out circles for the top and bottom of your hat.


Step 3: Glue the circles you have cut out to the top and the bottom of you cylinder shape.


Step 4: when complete begin to decorate


Step 5: finish decorating using whatever you like
How will the child/ren benefit from the activity? 
The children will learn how to make hats 
They will also learn how to make them using card or paper
It is a fun activity for the children to do
The children can have fun putting it all together
The children will also have fun in decorating it.
Age group/s: (development level) 

4-6years olds
How would you make the activity more inclusive? Principles of universal design 
Having the different colour paper available for the children to use
That you leave the children to create their own design
That there is material available for everyone to use
That it involves different children’s culture