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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.

Errol Eagle - theatre role play, protector of the stage, rhythm and rhyme ..  Number rhymes
Activity printables
, counting songs and poems for preschool nursery     
      
10 cauldron potions  - role play counting game
written and illustrated by Ruth Grimes copyright © 2015

  Halloween activity for preschool and nursery - cauldron potion number rhyme counting song

3 stirring witches, brewing up some spells.
10 cauldron potions, bottled up to sell.
along came ...  with a bunch of herbs to pay,
bought a coloured potion and took it right away.

9 cauldron potions bottled up to sell
Sitting on the witch's shelf, fizz popping spells.
along came ...  with a bunch of herbs to pay
Bought a coloured potion and took it right away.




Role play printables to enjoy a sensory themed Halloween

Yellow potion 10 cauldron potions number rhyme card
Purple potion 3 stirring witches - colour printable
Brown potion 2 spell potion bottle shelves

Green potion  Bunches of herbs - currency!
Orange potion Potion spell bottles - numbers 1 - 5
Red potion Potion spell bottles - numbers 6 - 10
10 cauldron potions - halloween preschool nursery number rhyme
3 witches stirring their cauldron number rhyme printable
Colour spell potions number rhyme 1 to 5
Colour spell potions number rhyme 1 to 5
Potion shelves - preschool number rhyme printbales
Bunches of herbs to buy a potion





Purple potion Organise your number rhyme by printing the images above, cut out and if wanted, laminate and trim again.
Red potion   Play in a small or large group wherever it's most comfortable.
Red potion   Request volunteers, one as the potion shop's keeper and 10 customers.
Red potion   Sing or say aloud the rhyme and at the 'along came.. ' line, invite a customer to come up and exchange their bunch of herbs for a potion.
Red potion   Count down as the number of bottles diminish with each payment.
Red potion Extend the activity to include what the potions might do eg. activate invisible umbrellas, become a spider for the day, change the colour of a flower's petals, glow in the dark, grow whiskers, visit the moon,  feel much better soon.

Turn a corner of your playroom into a sensory potions laboratory!



Links are to the product pages on amazon.co.uk
Dusky pink potion   Spriral liquid timer   Dusky pink potion Bubbling hourglass timers  Dusky pink potion jump bean timer Dusky pink potion Ooze tube timer Dusky pink potion cascading set of liquid timers Dusky pink potion rising liquid timer  Dusky pink potion drip drop sensory timer or a set of 4 trio motion timersDusky pink potion 4 cell liquid motion timer Dusky pink potion Potion droppers Dusky pink potion Spell tubes
 
liquid showers sensory timer
Bubbly hourglass timers
drip drop liquid timer
Oozing liquid sensory timer
cascading liquid timer
drip drop liquid timer
4 cell bubbling liquid motion timer
Rising liquid grain timer
Liquid dropper tools
test tube potion mixers



Cauldron playdough activity - mix up an alphabet potion
Dusky pink potion cauldrons on amazon.co.uk

Cauldrons - preschool play





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