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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | UNCRC   Playdough activity ideas..    Adding theme, focus and loose media to dough ..   Playdough frogs This dough activity will compliment planning for lifecycles, Spring, green, pond, Summer flower and  plant themes. Role play with balls of dough, dough colours, emotive eyes, lily flower shapes, pads and bottle tops!     The templates used in playdough frogs can be purchased in the store within the Lily pad frogs mini topic resource. Resources needed Green & yellow playdough - recipe here Role play accessories available in lily pad frog mini topic Blue, water/pond coloured cotton sheet. Lily stamen tools -  instruction guide  Hole punch tool from Amazon Making frogs Creative development.    Each frog is made from 8 pieces, numeracy, problem solving and involves building, connection, construction and activity to join. 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   Song resources:   5 Little speckled frogs from Under5's