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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.
Hope Hedgehog invites visitors to take a look through some articles of interest ...
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..
  
Egg respect! .. what will hatch from your playdough egg?

Explore what eggs are in a planned springtime activity and enjoy the tactile quality of sandy dough mixed with puffed rice and foil sprinkles.
 
Shopping list

 Quantity of sand dough
 Plastic eggs on amazon.co.uk
 Cruncy puffed rice on amazon.co.uk
 Foil sprinkles on amazon.co.uk
 Egg hatching creatures on amazon.co.uk

 Activity
What hatches from an egg list
tortoise
turtle
snake
crocodile  and alligators
dinosaurs and dragons
fish
platypus
spider
ladybug
head louse!
caterpillar
a selection of the many birds - outline selection

Story and reference books on amazon.co.uk

About the spring & new beginnings

Guess what's growing inside this egg
     
 Five little ducks book


Tactile activity for spring


View the egg shaped outline template laminate & add to play

Cut out and laminate egg templates for sculpting activities


Eggs and their hatchlings

 Roll, squish and mould the sand dough around small role play animals that hatch from eggs and discuss how eggs support the beginning of life, growth of and finally see the hatching of young birds, reptiles and other animals during the spring months when the weather is becoming warmer and more able to support growing babies.

The activity here contains 3 different size of plastic eggs for children and adults to examine and explore language  - larger, smaller,  largest, smallest, number, pattern and colour.
 Egg Easter or Spring Egg activity plan - please feel free to adapt the plan and link it to the learning areas of your own home nation's framework - England's EYFS, Wales' Foundation Phase, Scotland's pre-birth to 3 & curriculum for excellence, Northern Ireland's Foundation Stage



Eggs and their hatchlings

Find out what the spring means to different cultures ..
What grows inside eggs ..
Five little duck rhyme

T
ogg and leftover
- if you can get hold of this book we hope you enjoy it, it's one of our absolute  favourites :)
Togg and Leftover - the perfect prehistoric egg book ..
green spring grass green spring grass
Links for egg discovery ..
Egg  Eggs and veganism article
Cracked and peek About equinox on wikipedia and solstice & equinox dates on GMT
Emerging  Easter or Spring recipes from the PETA cookery book ..
hatched  Eggless cooking - www.egglesscooking.com

All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com





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