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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.
  
Flower pot play dough mats!
Build daisies, daffodils, poinsettias and holly leaf/wreath circles with paper petals, stamen lid extruders atop printed and laminated plant pot dough mats. These resource printables support a tactile way of  exploring summer lawns, seasonal blooms and tradtional foliage through children's gross and fine motor skills.

preschool early years daisy flower activity

Cut petals and leaves from different materials to vary the colour and texture of your loose media and to focus the activity, if possible laminate papers for durability. Use a hole punch tool to adapt plastic milk bottle tops and push down into sections of dough until it appears and forms a stamen like appearance. Gather twigs, leaves & drinking straws to snip and position as flower stems.

Take photographs of children's dough flower creations and display the images as your own floral allotment.


Flower play dough mats


Research flower FAQs for conversation. Find out who has blooms in their gardens, balconies or any other green space and the colours that are involved.
 
 Springtime daffodils RHS.org.uk
  Summer daisy RHS.org.uk
  Yuletide holly wreath
  Festive december poinsettia

Daffodil trumpet  daisy, daffodil & poinsettia petals  holly leaves

daffodil petal and trumpet template outlines
Petal outline templates for playdough flowers - daisy, daffodil, poinsettia
holly leaf outline template for playdough activities


Plant pot flower playdough mats 
Add coloured or outline plant pot mats to play alongside real flower containers.
Encourage rolling, cutting and children's own designs. Use collage pieces to decorate. Sticks and drinking straws give height and the impression of growth to flower blooms.

playdough flower plant pot activity


 
small flower plant pot playdough mat
Outline plant pot dough sheet

three plant pot activity sheet for playdough flowers and collage
Outline plant pots for playdough mark making activities

Single moss plant pot
Large playdough plantpot outline

Moss covered plantpot for playdough flower activity
Outline plantpot playdough activity sheet




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