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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. Woolly playdough sheep Enjoy the spring and nature's seasonally cute baby animals with a tactile dough curling activity.  free sheep outline - downloadable craft title from the store Wherever possible enable children's own design making, construction, choice and selection of materials to make personalised, unique sheep.       Resources needed   Quantity of handmade dough    String / yarn / acrylic thread    Child friendly scissors   sheep lamb outline template  Making dough swirls is great for physical development, fine and gross motor skill and an engaging way to support children's participation and inclusion. Dough swirls can form snail shells, baked cinnamon swirls, letter e's, they demonstrate yo-yo actions and open discussion for language - roll, curl, unravel, twist, turn, wind, round, circle, circular,  coil, contract, relax, spiral, how, where, what, when, why .. Our 2008 Mother's Day involved a photo shoot opportunity for this page :D xx Take photos of your finished sheep and decorate a pasture for grazing.    Add child led stories to the field and explore sheep and their lifespan of 8 to 14 years.   Sheep and lamb resources:     Sam Sheep can't sleep story book and Noodle's knitting Links to amazon are in connection with silkysteps affiliate account     Sheep rescue centers  rspca   Wool for crafting - newmoor barn.co.uk     natural fibres.co.uk - read about the campaign for wool    About farmed animals on Vegan Society.org.uk   Sheep on wikipedia   All new playdough activity ideas are being added to playdough-activities.com