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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.


Magical Mammoth - recipes, edible and to play with ..    Playdough activity ideas 
  Adding theme, focus and loose media to dough.
Warm and yellow playdough suns!
This is a nice free-flow activity that uses the sun as a learning focus for personal safety.


 
Sun safety playdough activities
   
 Resources needed

A quantity of yellow dough playdough recipe

Orange and yellow drinking straws with scissors

Glitter and collage pieces eg. foil, sequins

C
ircular cookie cutters
- on amazon.co.uk

Rolling pins

Printouts of the sun safety image & crayons to colour fill if wanted


Enjoy the dough by rolling and shaping  into circular summer sun's, snip straws and insert as shooting sun rays. Add interest with foil, glitter and use the activity as a foundation to discussing sun safety - printable 'be safe, stay cool' sun image


 


making yellow playdough for sun safety awareness


 
sun  More sun safety activities

paint collage craft  and outdoor water tray & floating suns page

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