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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes    Playdough activity ideas   Adding theme, learning focus and loose media to children's tactile dough play   Bird seed playdough game! Blend, roll, count and share balls of seed infused dough with 4 garden bird characters, most notably the winter's very familiar red breasted Robin.   Raise awareness of the birds living through winter in children's own gardens and the greater struggle to find food during this season. Share information with parents and carers about yearly feed plans and show how the children are involved with caring for wildlife whilst in the setting - Why feed birds from Sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk Resources needed   A quantity of playdough - handmade recipe   Bird seed or a soup mix  - on amazon.co.uk    Printout of the birds and share sheets;  Sparrow and Blue-tit - Yellow hammer and Robin  grass stands - number allocation discs   Access to a laminator and pouches   To prepare the activity      Print and cut out the opposite sides of each bird and glue together to form a whole. Laminate and trim.   Print, cut out, laminate and trim the grass standing area and the number allocation discs.   Use lumps of dough to stand the birds on their respective stands and  the place the prefered number disc on the grass base to indicate how many balls of seed dough need to be made. Play by combining the playdough with seeds, adding texture to the dough. Roll balls and distribute between the bird characters.   Additional ideas and resources for preschool play   Feeding birds throughout the year on the RSPB website Make pine cone seed feeders Discover the birds that live around our gardens - RSPB bird guide All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com