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14 Valentine’s Day Sensory Play Ideas
14 Valentine’s Day Sensory Play Ideas Valentine’s Day Ice Play Loving Hands – Little Bins for Little Hands Melting Hearts Word Search – Inspiration Laboratories Valentine’s Sensory Box – Learning and Exploring Through Play Valentine’s Day Play Dough – Craftulate Heart Textured Playdough -Learning and Exploring Through Play An Invitation to Make..Love Bugs – Multicraftingmummy Valentine’s Day Goop on the Light Table – Happily Ever Mom Valentine’s Sensory Play – Where Imagination Grows Valentine’s Sensory Snowglobe – In the Playroom Valentine Sensory Bin – Fantastic Fun and Learning Foaming Hearts Sensory Play – Twodaloo Thawing a Frozen Heart Science and Sensory Activity – Totschooling Valentine’s Playdough Candy Shop –…
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10 Snowman Playdough/Snowdough Activities (including our snowdough recipe)
Do you want to build a snowman? 10 super fun playdough (snowdough) snowman activities to enjoy this winter! We had a lot of fun making snowmen with our playdough yesterday! We got our inspiration for this activity from Nicola, the fantastic blogger at Multicraftingmummy! Here’s a quick peek at what we did plus 10 more fab activities for you try from some amazing bloggers. Our recipe: 1 cup cornflour/cornstarch 1 cup salt 1/2 cup fabric conditioner a little water mix it all together in a food processor and have fun! What we did: I made a large batch of plain (white) dough and then smaller batches of black, orange and…
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Halloween Playdough – A Ghoulish Invitation to Play and Create!
Playdough provides children with endless possibilities to play and create as well as developing all sorts of physical and cognitive skills. As Halloween is not a million miles off, I thought it was time to make some Halloween inspired playdough and invite my little munchkins to get creepily creative!!!!!! After Christmas, Halloween is my favourite holiday! Mind you, I love to celebrate and decorate for every holiday and festival throughout the year!!!! However, being a teacher this is usually the first holiday of the year that we really get to focus on and get creative with and as a result I have built up a tonne of resources and ideas…
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Autumn / Fall Coloured Play Dough – Quick and Simple Recipe
A quick and simple recipe for Autumn / Fall coloured playdough. This playdough is perfect for all sorts of autumn themed play activities. It quick and simple to make and should last for a number of weeks if kept in an air tight container in the fridge. Ingredients: (per individual colour) 1 cup flour 1 cup salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon or mixed spice or a few drops of your autumn scented oil of choice 1 dessert sp olive oil 1 tbsp paint colour of choice (red, orange, brown, yellow, gold) 1/4 cup of water (may need a little more) Method: If using a food processor, which I did for…
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The Benefits of Playing with Playdough
If you are familiar with our blog then you have probably noticed that we love to make and play with Playdough. The benefits of play dough play are numerous and kids of all ages have much to gain from engaging with play dough activities. So, why should our children play with play dough? Benefits of Playdough Play: 1. Fine Motor Skill Development: great for strengthening muscle tone in little hands – squishing, squashing, rolling, flattening play dough all develop children’s muscles and encourage prewriting and other skills such as cutting with a scissors, using a tweezers, holding a pencil etc. 2. Calming and therapeutic: simply sitting and squashing and rolling a…
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Fizzy Glittery Playdough / Gloop – Super Sensory Fun!
A group of fantastic bloggers from the Kid Blogger Network (of which I am a member) are running a year long linky called “12 Months of Sensory Dough”. Each month there is a theme for the dough and bloggers are encouraged to experiment with the theme and share their experiences (good and bad). We love sensory play and make a lot of playdough and love to experiment with new recipes. So, as it was raining heavily this morning I decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to experiment with fizzy dough, this months theme!!!! The Bloggers hosting this fantastic project are: Lemon Lime Adventures Look! We’re Learning! Glittering Muffins…
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Super Soft Colour Surprise Playdough
I love trying out new play dough ideas. Doodles and Oodles love playing with playdough, they play with it most days. I haven’t made it in a number of weeks as the play dough recipe I generally use makes a dough that can be stored in the fridge for weeks and weeks and used over and over again. Recently on Pinterest I spotted this really great idea by Learn Play Imagine for Colour Surprise Playdough – it looked like so much fun, I was completely intrigued by it and have been waiting for the right opportunity to try it. I changed the recipe as I wanted to try out a…
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(Kids) Gloriously green play dough fun- St Patrick’s Day Festivities
St Patrick’s Day is Monday, 17th March. It’s our national day here in Ireland. It’s a weekend of fun and frolics and a celebration of all things Irish. It also means a day off school and work! In preparation for the weekend ahead we’ve been having a little fun with some St Patrick’s Day themed activities. Today’s fun included exploring with green home-made play dough and very messy outdoor antics with gloop! First thing on the agenda was to make the play dough. Usually I let the children make it themselves but we were a little short on time today as we had a trip to the library scheduled, so…
