Craft ideas
for play
Themed preschool activities
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Duck races is a preschool
water and junk modelling craft activity that enables the exploration
of materials that might float and sink, aborb and dispel water. Use recycled
items to build duck boats and tools that fasten these resources together.
Use adjectives such as wet and dry to identify weight and the setting's
home partnerships where you can share bath and sink time ideas that utilises
different items.
When requesting donations of household boxes, tubes and coverings from
children's homes ensure everyone knows the setting's focus is on promoting
healthy choices to children, even through the resources made available
for craft. Welcome cereal, shoe, soap, tissue & toothpaste boxes, kitchen
& gift wrap rolls and raise awareness of the salt, sugar and fat content
in foods contained inside cardboard pizza, icecream and biscuit boxes.
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Resources
Junk modelling boxes, tubes
For coverage - clear film
/ food wrap plastic, foil, fabric, towels, small food bags.
To fix & attach: sticky
tape, pegs, stick glue.
Print outs of the duck template.
Yellow collage materials &
ethically sourced feathers if decorating duck authentically.
Large water tray
Blowing tools for propulsion eg.
straws, pipes, bellows, fans
Participants :)
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Making
ducks ..
Print any number of duck templates, cut, decorate and laminate
if wished. Trim again and fold in half at the head join and fold out
the flaps at the bottom, then glue or sticky tape the body section together.
Wherever possible encourage children to design and create their own
ideas for play.
Use a pool of water to test the inventions and race models from oneedge
to another using air as a propellant.
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Conversation
Use open ended questions beginning with how, where and why.
Encourage descriptive language that names the properties of the materials
in use and language for math - sizes, weights, dimensions, colour.
Point out any text appearing on the packaging and discuss the origins
of the, what they once held, how children know what was inside and how familiar
they are with the product.
As a science project this craft helps to look at forces and by using
various tools can see how the power of wind/breath enables propulsion
and movement.
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