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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.    A Basket filled with ghostly feelings! this activity blends facial expression, language, literacy, the Halloween holiday eventsand sensory exploration.  Use the printables to support diuscusson on emotions and how children name them. Fill balloons with dough and other tactile mediums using a piping nozzle inserted into the neck of the balloon. Once filled, remove the nozzle and knot, add a facial expression using permanent markers and print any of the images below to accompany your activities. The line drawn ghost outline can be used to collage with the items that are on the inside of the balloon ghosts. Examine own facial features as children emulate a feeling Learning mirrors on amazon.co.uk  Ghosts and Halloween can be controvertial subjects for young children and religion, please adapt whichever elements of this page are necessary to meet your setting's own approach. resources needed  12" white balloons - latex free if possible  Permanent marker pen  Large piping nozzle Fillings:  Quantity of uncoloured dough - playdough recipe  Seeds and lentil mix  Rice  Sawdust Display: Wicker basket White tissue paper or other tactile basket lining Ghost and text printouts Exploring emotions amazon   Activity: Hands on squish and squash Matching word to facial expression Mark make and collage onto ghost outlines  Ghost outline Ghost word feelings  Surprised ghost Happy ghost Sad ghost Sleeping ghost Angry ghost Other halloween dough accessories - links are to amazon.co.uk plastic spiders - sprinkles - wobbly eyes - drinking straws + scissors Feelings themed storybooks - adpat for summer with water tray sun floats & collage All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com