Playdough activity ideas
Adding theme,
focus and loose media to dough.
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Cat dough!
This activity idea explores
pattern, shape, position the names given to colours and mixing!
Give your dough stripes, patches, splodges and whiskers..
Making playdough
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Using the same cup or mug for measurement
fill it full with plain flour, half fill again with salt and then
fill 3/4 with water.
Place all into a saucepan.
Add a heaped teaspoon of cream of tartar and
1 tablespoon of oil.
Once cooked add hand cream or a heavier moisturiser
and food colourings.
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With all ingredients in a saucepan, cook stiring
continuously over heat until the dough forms a ball and is no longer
sticky.
Turn out onto a suitable surface and leave
to cool a little.
Add an amount of moisturising cream and knead
again.
Separate the dough into four sections.
Leave one plain, add black food colouring
to the second section.
Yellow and a little red to the third and red,
green + yellow to the fourth.
Knead each well until the colouring is even.
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Cat face outline
Print and laminate a cat face template
Add jingle bells and cut strands from a clean broom head
/ cut up black straws for whiskers.
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Have fun with colour mixing as the face template fill with
dough.
Discuss aspects of pet care and who has animals that they
look after at home and in extended family members homes.
Look at feline behaviours and chat about what cats do - how
they purr, eat, drink, curl up, sleep, clean and lick their fur,
fluff their tails up and meow.
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Full body cat outline - from the 'our cat likes
to hide in boxes' page
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List
of cat breeds from wikipedia
Simon's Cat films page
With thanks to Haworth Cat
rescue for the kittens and tabby photos xx
Ginger / orange cat photo
copyright iStock © Iain Sarjeant
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