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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes   Early years playdough activity ideas    Adding theme, focus and loose media to dough.         Apple playdough and making the colour brown!   Pick and clean some apple leaves, stalks and twigs to add features to childrens red and green apple dough balls. Explore what happens when the colours are blended and make tree trunks and branches with the results!   Print out the tree sheets and where possible laminate for durability. Provide mark makers eg. pencils and crayons and a quantity of the apple discs so that they can be scribed upon and positioned on the dough filled tree in ways that make sense to the children.. Resources needed   A quantity of playdough  apple scent on amazon.co.uk  Collage materials -- twig pieces -- apple leaves -- beans - soup mix on amazon.co.uk   Printables -- apple tree playdough mat -- making the colour brown slip -- blank number / letter discs A few keywords for this apple themed activity include green - red - brown - apple - skin - stalk - leaf - pips - core - fruit - healthy eating Apple tree playdough mat   Apple tree outline mat Making the colour brown Blank apple discs Other apple themed activities Apple pip growing - parent partnership idea Apple outline Healthy eating mini topic from the store  - Snack dragon fruits All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com