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Many fun and easy activity ideas for preschool, early years, under fives and over.

Please enjoy the following preschool playdough recipes and activity ideas in your early years settings and home.


Preschool playdough ideas for Early years play . Have fun with the flour in your setting ..

 Cooked Playdough Recipe
Preschool & Nursery risk assessment from
 Microwaved playdough Recipe  
  Cold dough Recipe
 Salt dough recipe
Edible playdough recipes ~ For under 5's

Cat coloured playdough activity   

Cat coloured play dough activity 
With thanks to Haworth Cat rescue

Dragon playdough resources and play ..  
Dragon play dough play with teeth, spines, spades and wings ..
Models that breath fire.
Use in preschool to explore animals of legend.
Valentines day play - Dough resources, information and links..  

 Valentine's day play dough activities 
 Ideas and resource ideas to enjoy the day .. 
 Preschool focus of red, heart shape, model, cut and thread. 
 
Playdough Birds and collage play nests !

Bird's nest dough play 
Collage and role play whilst exploring balls of dough, beak and nest materials along with ways to assemble.
Preschool focus of gardens, homes, conservation and in comparrison all about us themes examining body part names.
Woolly playdough - swirls, curls and cute sheep !

Woolly Playdough application and shape .. roll and curl ..
Fun dough activity with sheep curls and swirls !
Contains links to the store
Lavender playdough - Sensory activity and picture building ..  

Lavender's Blue Dilly DIlly
Lavender scented playdough activity and suggestions for use by preschool aged children and older ..
 Preschool focus on rhyme, colour - lilac, purple and sensory play.
Spahgetti strings for grass, hair or maybe role play dinner !

Spaghetti strings 
Find out how to make your own very cost effective playdough string makers!
Contains a link that is in association with Silkysteps amazon affiliate account.
Playdough Frogs and a Numberline resource from our Store ..  
 Playdough Frogs Explore feelings, emotions and green in your preschool and early years settings.   
 Dough modelling activity and layer accessories that help focus on grumpy, happy, sad and smile ..
Contains links to the store
  Aardvarks Termite hill   
from Mischief Mouse's page ~ this is a Salt dough craft that can be easily adapted for malleable dough & role play
Pumpkin playdough activity .. 
 Pumpkin play dough  ideas for sensory and tactile play.
Orange play with glittery cinnamon!
A great theme idea for Halloween, october, fall, autumn and harvest time. 
Contains links to the store
Find out how to play with dough, what it offers and the learning opportunities involved ...  
Find out how to play 
This page takes a look at how to play with dough, what it offers preschool & early years groups and a few of the learning opportunities involved.
Word document to help organise your dough making activites ..

 Playdough Rota  
a free Word.doc format to help early years groups organise dough making activities.
 
 Preschool focus of partnership and sharing provision for children's learning.

Activity cards for imaginative role play ..
 ~ Preschool playdough Activity cards ~ 
Base pictures for role play fun!

Downloadable in sets of 4 cards; they cover many different themes.
Each card has 'something' missing from the picture that the children can recreate using dough or other collage materials.

MAKE THE CARDS

 Download the black & white version ~ print and colour OR if prefered print out in full colour.
 Laminate or cover with sticky back plastic if you intend to use these cards repeatedly. 
 Otherwise, cover with plastic food wrap for the children to take home and continue play there.
Omni Orangutan ~ one of the Silkysteps Character cards .. model some arms and legs for him!          Elephant is in the Animals set ~ He needs some big grey ears ...


Insects Colour   B&W     Water Creatures  Colour  B&W       
BirdsColour   B&W        Silkysteps  Characters  ~ Colour  B&W
Animals ~ Colour    B&W  Christmas ~  Colour  B&W


Other Ideas .. hopefully coming soon

COMING SOON ..
Loch ness Monsters
Sparkly Goldfish tails
Mermaid Plaits
Egg Chicks
Ladybird Ladybird

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