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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

Magical Mammoth - recipes, edible and to play with ..    Playdough activity ideas 
  Adding theme, focus and loose media to dough.  

Cauldron soup, and alphabet potions

Mix up a hubbling, bubbling storm in a pot this Halloween. Use magnifying glasses to take a closer peek, curl craft stems and sprinkle some glitteras everyone enjoys the spellbinding atmosphere of the day.

Cauldron playdough activity - reading alphabet potions...



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Red cauldron A quanity of dough - handmade recipe
Red cauldron Coloured food dyes

  Potion ingredients

Red cauldron 50mm magnifying sensory domes - source a supplier for perception semispheres
Red cauldron   Glitter -  craft stem twists  -  collage gems

Red cauldron Laminating pouches and permanent markers
Blue bubbling cauldron  Colour cauldron playdough mat

Green bubbling cauldron  Outline cauldron template

Cauldron playdough mat
Outline cauldron drawing





Purple cauldron Turn your cauldron activity into an alphabet letter and word resource by using clear laminating pouches and permanent marker pens - write inside an empty laminator pouch within the inner boundary of the cauldron with the marker pens. Close and laminate the pouch.

 Add any amount of these overlay sheets to support your literacy and language planning.

Purple cauldron Use the magnifier domes under supervision to examine the written letters and words.




Additional resource links
Yellow cauldron pot 10 Cauldron potions number rhyme

Number rhyme for preschool halloween planning - 10 Cauldron potions



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