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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. A Skeleton bones activity! A fun, tactile way to learn about the framework inside our and other animal's bodies. Invite burying and the digging up of dinosaur skeletons, excavating bones, roll playdough in dirt, make impressions with dough cutters and fill the inside space of laminated outline sheets with dough, collage or colour. Plan this as an indoor or outdoor adventure and source resources that help to examine how people's bodies are able to stand upright and where on the body our skeletal bones enables us to bend. Support the knowledge with information about what makes bones strong and healthy - eating and drinking calcium rich foods and vitamin D on NHS.uk      Skeleton rhyme Inside our body are bones that make us tall Joints that help us bend and stretch our skeletons big and small Resources on silkysteps   Playdough recipe  Growing bones outline picture Skeleton sizes - bones & joints size rhyme Skeleton bones - cut & paste activity sheet Skeleton picture - mark making, colour & collage Resources on amazon.co.uk  Gingerbread skeleton cutter  Dinosaur skeleton cutters    Dinosaur skeleton play figures  Bag 'o' bones If possible prepare a few playdough capsules head of time. Mould and wrap the dough around dinosaur figures or fossile rocks and set them aside to dry.  Add to play as wanted.   Additional resources   Make skeletons out of children's names - name skeletons on google images    Dem bones song information on wikipedia.com    Skeleton themed books - spookyrumpus , the funnybones series of books ,  dinosaur bones     About rickets on NHS.uk    Staying safe in the sun - suncream rhyme - floating suns activity page All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com