Playdough activity ideas
Adding
theme, focus and loose media to dough.
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A spring themed primrose
playdough activity
Happy hoppy rabbits!
ears and tail play
This animal body parts activity supports the Hot cross bunny book by M. Christina Butler
and Gavin Scott. An interesting read for the springtime where baby
animals, bird chicks, growing plants seasons and lifecycles become
a learning focus.
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The storybook examines hats as gifts- spring bonnets in the forum, the
information that others give us, meaningful items, personal feelings and
choice. It also raises the issue of wildflower protection when Daisy
rabbit crossly picks a pawful of primrose heads & disposes of them in
a bin!
The law and primroses: primula vulgaris
is not included in Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside
Act 1981 where a list of plants and flowers are classified as nationally
protected, but they are categorised as a wildflower (when position and growth
have occured naturally) so the landowners permission is
needed before they can be picked.
Protected plants: protection, surveys and licences
gov.uk
The rules on picking wildflowers article
guardian.co.uk
List of wildflower pollinators on RHS.org.uk
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Please adapt the following activity ideas to meet your own needs
1. fine motor, problem solving:
use flat, laminated mats for children to fill in
and so create raised models within a structured, pre-formed outline.
Use this as an option that
supports children as they learn about the properties of dough, the
recognition of rabbits, their shape, characteristics and body part names
- scissors are a useful tool for cutting dough
in this activity.
2. inventive and observational: use
laminated resources and tactile materials to build up 3D replicas of
children's own rabbit designs. Use
this idea to encourage children's participation in constructing rabbits
as they see them.
3. knowledge of the world around us and
science: explore the spring, its weather, wild
flowers and baby animals. Gather resources that celebrate
this time of year, baby animals and how the warmer spring months help
them to grow and stay healthy.
4. physical and communication:
use conversation, language and vocabulary to describe how
rabbits move - hop, dig, scratch, burrow, twitch, thump, listen, watch,
sniff, nibble, reach, stretch, lick.
5. imaginative role play: source a
collection of head wear that reflects the temperature of the season's
- fluffy and warm, cotton light and cool.
6. personal, social and emotrional: examine
our own feelings, emotions, moods, facial expressions in connection with
the storybook and the words that name them all.
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Magnifying glasses and handheld mirrors help to explore
the outside and observe emotions in action!
magnifying glass - one handed learning mirror and two handed reflective safety mirror sets
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Rabbit ears, fluffy tails and primrose playdough!
Hopping rabbit outline template - primrose numberline - primrose leaves - outline rabbit ears - colour rabbit ears - outline primrose leaf printables - outline primrose flower outlines -
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More information
About hot
cross buns on wikipedia
The first day of spring - spring or vernal equinox
When do the clocks go forward -
British daylight saving
Rabbits don't usually eat primroses,
so expand the activity into foods fit for bunnies
the carrot
collage craft has more printables and ideas.
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