- Initiates new combinations of movements and gestures, to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences
- Combines art forms, eg moving and singing, making and dramatic play, drawing and talking, constructing and mapping, stories and drama
- Expresses and communicates ideas, feelings and understandings using a range of art forms, eg dance, drama, poetry, music and the visual arts
- Responds imaginatively to art works and objects, eg this music sounds likes dinosaurs, that sculpture is squishy like this [child physically demonstrates], that peg looks like a mouth
- Creates representations of imaginary and real-life ideas, events, people and objects
- Chooses particular movements, instruments, sounds, colours and materials for their own imaginative purposes
- Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play
- Plays cooperatively as part of a group to create, develop and act out an imaginary idea or narrative
