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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. Playdough cupcake & fairy cake activities So many varieties! fairy cakes, cupcake, iced, plain, dusted, mini, butterfly and more...delicious! and not usually too hard to find, they're almost always tempting and rarely the healthiest option around. From birthdays, fundraisers, treat wise snacks to special diet foods, playdough activities can help children to explore their own likes, dislikes, their health needs, those of others and the sugar / fat content that involves dental hygiene and energy expense. By creating designs with dough, personal food choices can be discussed alongside possible alternatives. Use the printables on this page to support children's play and to look at what ingredients make up cake. Link foods with sugar to the necessity for tooth brushing and energy to whole body activity. Consider flavours and the ones children talk about liking and disliking - chocolate, strawberry, orange .. Allergies and lifestyles that require care with ingredients eg. how some families might not eat eggs, use rice flour instead of wheat flour, pour almond milk instead of cow's milk. Have fun with your cake adventures and shared experiences.  What's in a cupcake - ingredients poster   Playdough activity resources  quantity of playdough recipe page    treat aware: smaller petit four cases  larger silicone cupcake cases - amazon.co.uk    glitter and sprinkles Prefered printables    Colour cupcase toppers    Grey cupcase toppers - colour fill    Colour ingredients list    Grey ingredient cards    Cup cake numberline 1 - 10    Cup cake numberline 11 - 20   Outline playdough mats      Cupcake outline 1 swirly top    Cupcake outline 2 muffin rise    Cupcake outline 3 butterfly top    Cupcake outline 4 dome rise   Fairy cake case outline    Blank cake topper discs Activity ideas   The cupcake number lines offer opportunities to order and count the children's dough creations and  the cake toppers + outlines invite fill and position activity. Where possible use blank cutouts, crayons and scissors to encourage children's own mark-made ideas.   Information  September's national cupcake week  and Bakeryinfo.co.uk Diabetic cakes   Fatless cakes   Eggless cakes   Gluten free cakes  fruit salad recipes for the season  Vegan treats   banana oat flapjack bars String a treat - dry-wipe cake decorating mark making -  fruit piece threading and vegetable cutters + play foods on amazon.co.uk All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com