Showing posts with label salt dough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salt dough. Show all posts
We love playdough!
At Little Elms, one of our favorite things to do is to make playdough. And as we've been busy exploring autumn, we decided to have a go at making autumn themed playdough.
What we used & needed
- Plain flour
- Water
- Salt
- Food colouring or paint
- Vegetable Oil
- Bowl and Spoon
How we made our playdough
We add water first into the bowl and then added the food colouring and paint and mixed those together.
Next we added the salt and mixed it into the water.
Glitter was fun to add, next, it went everywhere!
We added a little bit of oil next and mixed it together,
Lastly, we added the flour. We keep adding until it forms together into a mould like shape.
We took it out of the bowl and rolled it until it formed into dough.
Let the fun begin!
WE LOVE PLAYDOUGH!
Today saw the development of the children’s interest in manipulation as a form of risk taking to develop self confidence here at Pebbles. In preparation for the rapid arrival of Christmas the children were supported to use their own creativity to decorate salt dough to create decorations.
"These [shells] go on here so it can fly to the top of the tree" - Henry (42 Months)
Shells collected by the children during visits to the beach, provided interesting additions for the children to explore.
"The snail shell is the star!" - Earl (48 Months)
Shells collected by the children during visits to the beach, provided interesting additions for the children to explore.
"The snail shell is the star!" - Earl (48 Months)
Creating patterns using similar shells.
Some of the finished decorations, ready for baking.
Children developed fine motor skills as they arranged shells on their dough, recognising different patterns and texture.
“There's no crab living in here now" (referring to the hermit crabs we'd seen in some shells the week before when collecting them on the beach) - Ella (37 Months)
"I have the jingle bells for my cutter!" - Melsa (35 Months)
The sensation of the texture and temperature of the dough kept some children engaged for extended periods of time as their senses made new discoveries.
The sensation of the texture and temperature of the dough kept some children engaged for extended periods of time as their senses made new discoveries.
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