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Choose your type of playdough tree, build and decorate!
Select between 3D cone shaped moulds, cookie cutters and flat, line drawn Christmas trees
as the foundation base of your festive dressing activities. Snip beads, sprinkle
glitter and insert tinsel as children create their own winter look.
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Preparing
the activity
Make the 3D tree moulds by printing the outline or coloured
half circle templates and cutting each out. Laminate and cut out again.
To form each into a cone, curl the straight edges around and bring
them together securing the join with sticky tape.
Fill the inside of the cone with a handful of dough and to release,
place it with the dough base downwards and squeeze gently around the
outer surface, lifting the laminate cone off once the dough has been freed.
Decorate as wished
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Additional ideas for Yule tree themed preschool play
Taking pictures - digital camera; recording children's dough
adventures through photography creates permanent images of individual's
work outcomes. These serve as evidence for learning and development, provide
opportunities to recall, storytell, share conversation and observations
about the activity and adapt the sense of destruction involved with packing
away temporary art, craft and construction efforts.
About Yule or Christmas trees on wikipedia
Trafalga Square's annual tree gift from Oslo Norway
Tree dressing day information
Yule tree themed children's story book - The gift of Christmas
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