Daffodil Day Invitations to Play
Daffodil Day - Thursday, 22nd August 2024
Daffodil Day is a special day dedicated to raising awareness and funds for cancer research, symbolised by the bright and hopeful daffodil. This day encourages people to come together in support of those affected by cancer, offering hope and strength to individuals and families facing this challenge.
For young children, participating in Daffodil Day activities provides an opportunity to explore themes of hope, growth, and renewal through sensory play. These activities are designed to engage children's senses while introducing them to the significance of the daffodil as a symbol of positivity and resilience. By incorporating daffodil-themed sensory experiences, we can foster an understanding of empathy, community, and care, even from an early age.
Engaging children in these activities on Daffodil Day allows educators to create meaningful connections between the natural world and important social causes. The bright yellow daffodil, marking the return of spring, serves as a reminder of the beauty and hope that can emerge even in difficult times. Through these sensory experiences, children not only develop essential skills and dispositions but also learn the value of compassion and support for others.
Daffodil Playdough:
Materials: Yellow playdough, green pipe cleaners, small daffodil-shaped cookie cutters.
Instructions: Children can create daffodil flowers by shaping the yellow playdough and adding green pipe cleaners as stems.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience, and agency.
QKLG: Identity - Acting with independence and perseverance.
MTOP: 1.2 Children and young people develop their autonomy, interdependence, resilience, and agency.
VEYLDF: Identity - Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience, and sense of agency.
Yellow Sensory Bin:
Materials: Yellow rice, yellow pom-poms, daffodil flowers (real or artificial), small scoops, and containers.
Instructions: Set up a sensory bin filled with yellow items, allowing children to explore and sort the materials.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.1 Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
QKLG: Active Learning - Showing confidence and involvement in learning.
MTOP: 4.1 Children and young people develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
Daffodil Water Play:
Materials: Water tray, yellow floating flowers, green leaves, small watering cans.
Instructions: Children can water the floating flowers and explore the concepts of floating and sinking.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.2 Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigating.
QKLG: Active Learning - Showing confidence and involvement in learning.
MTOP: 4.2 Children and young people develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigating.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigation.
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Yellow Paint Exploration:
Materials: Yellow paint, brushes, sponges, paper, and daffodil stencils.
Instructions: Provide different painting tools for children to explore with yellow paint and create daffodil-themed artwork.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 3.2 Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
QKLG: Wellbeing - Exploring ways to promote physical wellbeing.
MTOP: 3.2 Children and young people become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
VEYLDF: Wellbeing - Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
Daffodil Scented Playdough:
Materials: Lemon-scented playdough, flower petals, small rolling pins.
Instructions: Children can mix flower petals into the lemon-scented playdough to create their own daffodils.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 3.1 Children become strong in their social, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
QKLG: Wellbeing - Building a sense of autonomy.
MTOP: 3.1 Children and young people become strong in their social, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
VEYLDF: Wellbeing - Children become strong in their social, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
Daffodil Collage:
Materials: Yellow tissue paper, green construction paper, glue, scissors.
Instructions: Children can create a collage of daffodils by tearing and sticking the paper to form the flowers and stems.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
QKLG: Communicating - Exploring literacy in personally meaningful ways.
MTOP: 4.3 Children and young people transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children transfer and adapt what they have learnt from one context to another.
Yellow Sensory Bottles:
Materials: Empty plastic bottles, yellow glitter, water, yellow beads, small daffodil charms.
Instructions: Create sensory bottles by filling them with yellow items and water for children to shake and observe.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 3.2 Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
QKLG: Wellbeing - Exploring ways to promote physical wellbeing.
MTOP: 3.2 Children and young people become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
VEYLDF: Wellbeing - Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
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Daffodil Flower Garden:
Materials: Yellow paper flowers, green felt, soil, small pots.
Instructions: Children can plant paper daffodils in small pots filled with soil, creating their own flower garden.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.
QKLG: Active Learning - Using technologies for learning and communication.
MTOP: 4.4 Children and young people resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.
Yellow Bubble Foam:
Materials: Yellow food colouring, bubble solution, water, large trays.
Instructions: Mix yellow food colouring with bubble solution and water to create yellow foam for children to explore.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 3.2 Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
QKLG: Wellbeing - Exploring ways to promote physical wellbeing.
MTOP: 3.2 Children and young people become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
VEYLDF: Wellbeing - Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
Daffodil Sensory Path:
Materials: Yellow fabric, green fabric, daffodil cutouts, soft mat.
Instructions: Create a sensory path using different textures for children to walk on, with daffodil cutouts placed along the way.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 3.2 Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
QKLG: Wellbeing - Exploring ways to promote physical wellbeing.
MTOP: 3.2 Children and young people become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
VEYLDF: Wellbeing - Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
Daffodil Ice Exploration:
Materials: Yellow food colouring, ice cube trays, water, daffodil petals or small flower confetti.
Instructions: Freeze yellow-coloured water with daffodil petals or flower confetti inside. Children can explore the melting process and the textures as the ice turns to water.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.2 Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigating.
QKLG: Active Learning - Showing confidence and involvement in learning.
MTOP: 4.2 Children and young people develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigating.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigation.
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Daffodil Petal Sorting:
Materials: Real or artificial daffodil petals, small bowls, tweezers.
Instructions: Provide children with tweezers and bowls to sort daffodil petals by size, colour, or texture.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
QKLG: Communicating - Exploring literacy in personally meaningful ways.
MTOP: 4.3 Children and young people transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children transfer and adapt what they have learnt from one context to another.
Daffodil Mud Kitchen:
Materials: Mud, water, yellow flowers, small pots and pans, utensils.
Instructions: Set up a mud kitchen with yellow flowers and other natural materials for children to create their own "daffodil dishes."
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.
QKLG: Active Learning - Using technologies for learning and communication.
MTOP: 4.4 Children and young people resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.
Daffodil Sensory Bottles with Sound:
Materials: Empty plastic bottles, yellow beads, small bells, rice, water.
Instructions: Create sensory bottles with yellow items that make different sounds when shaken.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.2 Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigating.
QKLG: Active Learning - Using technologies for learning and communication.
MTOP: 4.2 Children and young people develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigating.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigation.
Daffodil-Themed Finger Painting:
Materials: Yellow and green finger paint, large sheets of paper, daffodil stencils.
Instructions: Children can use their fingers to paint daffodils, exploring texture and colour.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 5.3 Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.
QKLG: Communicating - Exploring and expanding language.
MTOP: 5.3 Children and young people collaborate with others, express ideas, and make meaning using a range of digital technologies and media.
VEYLDF: Communication - Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.
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Daffodil Sensory Play with Light:
Materials: Yellow cellophane, flashlights, mirrors.
Instructions: Use flashlights and yellow cellophane to explore light and shadows, creating daffodil shapes on walls.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 5.4 Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work.
QKLG: Communicating - Exploring and expanding language.
MTOP: 5.4 Children and young people begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work.
VEYLDF: Communication - Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work.
Daffodil-Themed Sensory Garden:
Materials: Soil, daffodil bulbs, watering cans, garden tools.
Instructions: Children can plant daffodil bulbs and tend to them, observing the growth process.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 2.4 Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
QKLG: Connectedness - Showing respect for environments.
MTOP: 2.4 Children and young people become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
VEYLDF: Community - Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
Daffodil Sensory Dough with Seeds:
Materials: Yellow playdough, sunflower seeds, small rolling pins.
Instructions: Children can mix seeds into the playdough, creating textured sensory dough to explore.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 3.2 Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
QKLG: Wellbeing - Exploring ways to promote physical wellbeing.
MTOP: 3.2 Children and young people become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
VEYLDF: Wellbeing - Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
Daffodil-Inspired Sensory Box:
Materials: Yellow fabric, artificial daffodils, yellow feathers, small mirrors.
Instructions: Fill a box with various yellow items for children to touch and explore.
Curriculum Links:
EYLF: 4.1 Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
QKLG: Active Learning - Showing confidence and involvement in learning.
MTOP: 4.1 Children and young people develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
VEYLDF: Learning - Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
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