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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   Bumble bee dough! Recreate the familiar black and yellow striped areas of a bee's head and body / thorax and abdomen then add antennae, embossed or paper wings and a role play buzzzzz bee image printables:    Bumble bee underbody wings Bumble bee & wings outline Preschool bumble bee rhyme build atop the bee's underbody image or support children as they use a range of resources to examine and construct their own bee interpretations. differences between bumble and honey bees on beeconservation.org building bumble bees nests     Make embossed wings by wrapping net fabric around a wooden block or piece of heavy card and secure in place. Press into the dough to create patterns that can then be cut and shaped, adding flight to the bee models.  Storybooks, role play and games Honey bee's busy day by Richard Fowler Where there's a bear there's trouble      by Michael Catchpool Bee finger puppets for a buzzingly good time Honey bee tree game   All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com