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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 ..
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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.
  
Dragon dough
Template outlines for imaginative role play with dough. This is a useful activity to engage children in stroy telling, books and role play. Supply resources that enable personal designs to be made and a camera to record everyones model.

Dragon dough printables
 
 

 
Dragon body part templates - printable resources


Print dragon themed body parts for dough play

Print, cut, laminate and trim.
Use a range of paper colours for the dragon parts, textures & materials for firery flames.

Dragon body part names

Spines, Spikes, horns, collar, claws, talons, neck, wings, teeth, spade, chest, shoulder, belly, tail





Dragon face   Dough recipe:
Resources needed for an adult and 1 child activity
please x the quantities against an expected number of participating children

      1 cup of  plain flour
      ½ cup of salt
      ¾ cup water
      1 tsp cream of tartar to approx 4ozs flour
      Oil - 1 tablespoon
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      Food colouring
      Hand or other moisturising cream.
Playdough recipe for tactile home, preschool learning

Dragon face   To make ..
 Place all dry ingredients into a saucepan and add the water. Stir over a medium heat until the mix forms a dough and leaves the side of the pan cleanly.
Once cooled separate into sections and colour, add a squeeze of moisturising cream to improve dough consistency.

Playdough colours and dough tools for feature modelling


Other resources..
Dragon face    Snack dragon outline set expand on this activity to foods, healthy eating, choices and role play.
Dragon face     Dragon themed books for preschool
Dragon face   Dragon figures set 1 and role play figures set 2 on Amazon

Set of dragon figures for preschool play
Set of figures to inspire small world dragon play

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