Expressive arts and design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the end of the EYFS, children should:  

• Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.  

• Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role-play, movement, designing and making, and a variety of songs and musical instruments. 

• Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions.  

• Recognise and explore how sounds can be changed, sing simple songs from memory, recognise repeated sounds and sound patterns and match movements to music.  

• Use their imagination in art and design, music, dance, imaginative and role-play and stories.