Nursery World - Expressive Arts and Design: 3D Structures: Shaping up

What are the developmental benefits of using 3D objects in play and making activities, and how can early years settings best resource for this? Penny Tassoni explains

Exploring 3D objects feeds into many areas of the early years curriculum

Walk down any street and you will see a variety of structures from lamp posts to post boxes, as well as larger structures such as flats, offices or shops. In some areas, you may come across a water fountain, play park or even a statue. This built environment is all the result of human activity – a desire to create 3D structures for practical but also creative purposes. As with many things, early experiences can be formative for the engineers, architects and sculptors and of the future. Given this, it is perhaps not surprising that exploring materials in 3D is within the scope of the newly revised education programme for Expressive Arts and Design (EAD).

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