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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. Ts&Cs page resources are free for any non-commercial use. Images and text not to be uploaded to other websites       Parrot squawk and the monkey pirates! copyright © 2015 RTG Put some gold coins on your playdough table and enjoy a 7 page story printable and other pirate themed resources that support role play, language, numeracy and world knowledge. Read aloud the story in paged sequence and all jumbled up! build trees, explore islands and find out who has treasures of their own and what those meaningful items are.  Parrot Squawk & the monkey's story 1. Parrot squawk lives on an island filled with trees and monkeys. Pirate monkeys! 2. One morning the island's sea washed up a big wooden chest. 3. The monkeys were excited, this was quite an unusual thing to happen!      Parrot Squawk flew over to help open the chest and inside they found treasure! Sparkly gems, I spy telescopes, a bag filled with shiny coins and a bottle with a rolled up piece of paper inside. 4. "What to do, what to do?" Parrot Squawk squawked. He knew the treasure belonged to someone, but who?  The monkeys didn't know, the monkey's didn't care, they wanted to play! Some monkeys took the sparkly gems to their water pool and watched as the sun danced over them. 5. Some monkeys took the I spy telescopes to the tallest tree on the island. From the highest branch they loked up, down and all around. 6. Parrot Squawk swooped in low and took the bag of coins. He knew where he'd seen them being used - by people in the village. As he passed over the rooftops he tugged the bag and the coins fell to the ground. The people were surprised, they were also very happy their money had been returned. 7. A boy watched as Parrot Squawk turned back towards the shore and decided to follow him. When he saw the wooden chest and the bottle lying inside he carefully took it out and unrolled the paper scroll ...  what do you think it said?      Activity resources Plan ahead for your setting's early years learning and collect the resources that'll help make this theme a thoroughly engaging one. .   Molten gold - yellow coloured playdough   Brown cardboard tubes and green paper leaves for tree construction   Pirate coins - treasure jewels & gems - I spy telescopes - bag pouches on amazon.co.uk Choose from the following selection of printables    Printables print, laminate and add to your playdough table     Page 1   Page 2   Page 3   Page 4   Page 5   Page 6   Page 7   Monkey and parrot paper finger puppets   Plain colour scroll printable   Outline, plain scroll template   Lined colour scroll printable   Outline, lined scroll template   Treasure chest - coloured and long (landscape)     Treasure chest - tall upright coloured playdough mat (portrait)   Treasure chest - outline and long (landscape)     Treasure chest - tall open lid outline template (portrait)    Play ideas   Arrange plastic coins on a sheet of card and secure in place with glue, sticky tac or double sided tape and use as crayon and chalk rubbing boards.   Use the printable scroll for map making, scribe and story tellling - messages in a bottle page   Laminate the wooden chest printouts and use as playdough base mats for children to build and create mounds of beautiful treasure - cut lengths of yuletree beads and large jewels to decorate   Turn the monkey and parrot images into finger puppets with paper finger loops. Secure with sticky tape.   Separate the treasures into the setting's areas of play; place gems in a water tray with rainbow printables,  I spy telescopes with the dressing-up  box, bags and pouches in a sensory/fine media bin filled with plastic currency, pasta, and rice.   Use the numbering on the story pages to raise awareness of order and sequence.    Links to complimentary resources   Map poster - explore the world how Great Britain is an island.   10 things I can do to help my world book - purchase on amazon.co.uk Include real natural gemstones in play and where interested add on with fossils and activities about our body and its skeletal bones.   What piracy is pirates, alongside cowboys, indians, and guns can be controversial subjects for setting's organising play activities.  With piracy continuing to exist today work closely with your parents to understand all aspects of learning that you hope your children will gain from the setting's themed planning.   Pirate themed story books   International talk like a pirate day   A few activities that support children's fine motor skill development coin picking, crayon rubbing, scroll writing, scissors and leaf fraying,  monkey business game All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com