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Valentine Day playdough activity
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Valentine playdough activities
Legs and Hearts !
Use this fun activity to enjoy all aspects of play ...
As a focus it mixes the possibility of threading with wool, string and laces with malleable & tactile dough.
Modelling, manipulation and the addition of textured layers with collage items.
As a combined activity it can focus on colour, shape, friendship, relationships, feelings, emotions and a day with historic meaning ...
Factual function of the Heart and an introduction of the concept of pressure - a force - to pump ..
With the addition of 'legs it can encourage play and interaction from everyone...
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To make your own Valentine's day playdough:
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You will need:
FOR an Adult and 4 Children activity please x the ingredient quantities by 4
 1 cup of Plain Flour
 ½ cup of Salt
¾ Cup Water
1 tsp Cream of Tartar to approx 4ozs flour
Oil - 1 Tablespoon to approx 4ozs flour
Food colouring - Red or Pink .. for information on the original Cochineal colouring - Image search from google and article on Wikipedia
Suitable for Vegetarians notice on the food colouring packaging may indicate if colouring contains animal derived products.
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 Hand or Other Moisturising cream ~ Scented if possible.
 Rose oil & or other Flower scented oil ..
These ingredient are optional but the hand ceam makes a real difference to the doughs texture, and oil to the sensory aromatic element of play ..
RISK - Please check before use for issues of sensitivity / allergy. |
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Cook the dough by heating all upper ingredients until it forms a dough and leaves the side of the saucepan.
Leave to cool and knead in the moisturising cream + scented oil
RISK: Please check for oil scented sensitivity before inclusion.
For the Valentine day activity
you will need
A print out of the heart templates
Laminating sheets & laminator
Collage items to build on with .. wool, sprinkles, glitter and sequins
Cutters, cutting and rolling tools.
Make your heart dough Templates
NB: Full play resource is on Stitch Squirrel's Page helps guide play ideas for a smaller individual activity.
Heart threading - Stitch's threading play
Heart Templates - will open in a new window
Print and cut the frilled heart from white paper and smaller heart shapes from coloured paper.
Lightly glue the coloured heart to the centre of the frilled heart.
Laminate and cut out.
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EARLY LEARNING Play suggestions
If your focus is on colours & you are looking at what happens when white is added to Primary colours - use pastel coloured paper heart shapes to visually continue & prompt discussion on colour names and their changes.
Using blue and other preferred colours in the activity also helps with diversity and ensures inclusion of Children's likes & dislikes.
Use a variety of techniques to help the children obtain a heart shape: Cutting, filling, building up, trimming ...
The image below shows Biscuit dough being used / applied in 4 ways to help reach the desired shape:
1. Using widely available cutters.
2. Using a template to guide position of individual cuts, creating a line for separation.
3. Building up a shape with smaller pieces of dough and using a piece of a plain, clean laminated pouch to flatten the dough for cooking purposes.
4. Using a cutter shape, place it on a surface that allows it to be lifted / slid off with ease, we've used another piece of laminated plastic - fill the cutter with smaller pieces of dough and watch the heart shape take form - carefully remove the cutter when finished.
This method is dependant on a groups resources / number of available cutters.
In addition ..
5. Mould the shape freely - possibly using a visual image as a guide, own knowledge or experience. |
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ADDITIONAL Resource links 
