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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. Playdough frogs and exploring  feelings, emotions and words.   This dough activity compliments themed and interest led planning for all about me, lifecycles, spring, colours, pond, summer flower & plant learning. Role play with balls of dough, emotive eyes, lily flower shapes, pads and bottle tops! Frog eyes printout For this frog activity you'll need Playdough recipe page Printout of the frog eyes free for non-commercial use   expand the role play scenery ..   Lily flowers, rules and other role play accessories are available in lily pad frog mini topic   Blue, water/pond coloured cotton sheet or table cloth   Lily stamen tools / plastic milk bottle lids that have been hole stamped with  a punch toolfrom Amazon         Making frogs is great for creative development.    Each frog can be made from 8 pieces,, more or less depending on personal interpretation.  Support numeracy and problem solving by building, connecting, constructing and joining. 2 - large balls - a head and a body 2 - Small balls - eye sockets 4 - Sausage shapes - arms & legs   Knead, mould and model quantities of dough as the frog designs take shape.. Cut with scissors, imprint, sculpt and add on with other media to complete, extend, explore and expand on the model inventions.. Physical development - fine motor.    For smiles, frowns and down turned mouths use curved and straight edged tools: Personal, social and emotional development - rulers, cups, lids, bowls, cutlery, decorating tools: Knowledge and understanding of children's worlds.  Sculpting tools from Amazon   Discuss people who help us and their careers as potters, artists, and what's involved with caring for  for frogs/tadpoles. Knowledge and understanding of the  world diversity and culture. Add role play frogs to the dough and extend activities ..          Discover onomatopoeia together through words  and frog voices, volume, pitch and tone. .. Communication, language and literacy     Extend on fine motor skill activities to gross motor development and hop, leap, ribbit, croak and stretch ..     Book resources: Fact, fiction, lifecycle focussed.. The Teeny Weeny Tadpole book by Sheridan Cain and Jack Tickle Flower and leaf templates used in this activity can be purchased through the store in lily pad frogs mini topic  All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com