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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes    Playdough activity ideas    Adding theme, focus and loose media to dough. Autumn playdough and sensory leaves!   Collect a number of autumnal resources that celebrate the changes this season brings to plants, animals and the weather. Plan ahead by making balls of dough in 5 different colours and scent with prefered spices and herb aromas.     green bay leaves - red cinnamon - orange nutmeg - yellow ginger - brown cloves   Wilton food colouring for dough on amazon.co.uk   Source leaf cutters, real pine or fir cones and include pictures of animals that will soon start the process of hibernation - animal line drawn, outline templates Print and laminate the playdough mats and use them as foundation sheets to conduct dough rolling and cutting on, discuss tree names, autumn words, seasonal fruit, seeds, nuts and numbers. Resources needed  Quantities of dough - handmade recipe  Leaf shaped cutters - on amazon.co.uk  Pine cones and conkers - on amazon.co.uk Leaf playdough mat printables   Sycamore - fruit, seed and nut names    Oak leaf outline and tree names   Leaf spray and counting numbers left to right   Beech tree leaf and themed autumn words    Autumn tree trunk outline add coloured playdough leaves   Autumn leaf colours display poster   Autumn playdough Enjoy autumn themed story times ..   Leaf Trouble by Jonathan Emmett and Caroline Jayne Church and Hibernation Station - a USA storybook preview streamed from YouTube  available on amazon.co.uk and colour sorting playdough leaves as children explore number, pattern sequences and the season. Find many more tactile playdough activities for preschool, nursery and other dough enthusiasts of any age!  leaf stampers All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com