Play Dough Rangoli Mandalas | NurtureStore By Cathy James on June 14th, 2012 Yesterday’s Play Dough Pizza Parlour was all busy activity and co-operative playing. Today’s Play Dough Pledge idea is very different. My 5-year-old has been ill this week and play dough has come to our rescue. Play Dough Mandalas On offer we had: orange play dough made using our favourite no cook play dough recipe :: bottle tops and lids :: a selection of added extras including pearl barley :: brown, orange and puy lentils :: cumin and caraway seeds The colours and textures and scents of the pulses and spices bring lots of sensory elements to the play. L remembered how we’d used pulses to make Rangoli patterns for Diwali so we decided to see how this would work with play dough. To make the rangoli mandalas she took a blob of play dough and pushed it into a bottle top. The addition of some fancy sugar tongs was popular. She came up with a variety of designs for her play dough mandalas. Get the book! Love play dough? Go on - share this!
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AMAZING PRESCHOOL ACTIVITIES Paint Chip Phonics I found a great idea on The Snail’s Tail. She really does a good job of explaining it on her site, but I’ll try to do it here too. The idea is to practice the consonants, blends, digraphs and common word families. Shopping List: 13 long cards (6 colors to a card) or 26 short cards (3 colors to a card) for consonants, blends, and diagraphs34 cards that have the hole cut out…12 if there are 3 colors on a card. Here is a sample of the families, blends and digraphs (you can click on the images to see them larger): Consonants and cards in action: Since I had cards left over, I decided to make a “Shades of Color” game with them for my preschooler. These word families go on the cards with the square cut out on them: agab ailainackakeamanankapallatayeedellestewickightillineinginkipobogoreotoutowuckumunky The following consonants, blends, and diagraphs are all written on the long paint chips. Consonants: b cdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz Blends: blclflglplslbrcrdrfrgrprtrscskspstsmsnswsplsprstrsqu Diagraphs:
Candy Creations This candy craft will come in really handy when Halloween rolls around. Crafts with candy and crafts with candy wrappers may seem undoable because you might think “my kid would want to eat that candy, not craft with candy”. But kids love to create with non-toys, even candy remember.Read on.. Like many kids, Big S loves her sugar candies. With candy comes the need to keep reminding that the wrappers need to go to the trash bin. We made butterflies & flowers To quiet them down, I took the wrappers and started twisting them to make simple butterflies. Smooth out the wrappers and give them a good twist. We made some cute, colorful butterflies. Big S squeals: Flowers mommy ! I saw the pack of candy and said ” Let’s make flowers with these” Big S: No. Did she just say candy is her food? Resistant at first to turn the little delicacies into crafting material, she finally started making flower shapes with them. The candy flower patterns looked so cute, it inspired us to make a scenery with them.
Easy clothespin animals Days to World Animal Day [tminus t="2012-10-04" style="carbonlite"]World Animal Day[/tminus] Day-7 This is going to be a quick one. I kept it simple with my almost two-year old with a very short attention span. Things you need Craft sticksPlastic clothespinsOld yogurt container Before I go on, I can guarantee you that many toddlers (especially if they have older siblings) will pretend the clothespins is an alligator and will try to snap you or worse snap themselves. Use caution and please supervise. Initially, my plan was to just clip clothespins on an empty yogurt container. We did this for a little while and baby A was off to snapping her hair with clothespins and having a “gigglishy” good time. When the snapping clothespins timer went off, she started snapping clothespins on the craft sticks. Once she practiced with a few, she started her requests. Here is a simple dog (looks like one?) A few more I’m sure we will visit craft sticks and clothespins activity again with my pre schooler.
Puffy Paint Fall Art Fall Activities: Leaves Art with puffy paint Puffy Paint- just the word sounds fun. The activity itself couldn’t have been more fun. To make some amazing puffy paint right at home, I used the recipe from Mom to 2 posh lil Divas Ingredients for puffy paint 1 cup white flour2 Tbsp baking powder2 Tbsp saltWater Start adding water gradually until you reach a consistency of pancake batter. After the “batter” was done, we separated them into bowls and added food colors to each of them. Now armed with our puffy paint,we gathered the following. Things you need Puffy PaintSqueeze bottlesBlack poster boardCups and spoons if you have toddler who will empty the contents in under 2 seconds. We put the puffy paint in different squeeze bottles and were ready to play. I love black poster boards – makes art very dramatic. I cut a big black poster board into 3 parts with the idea that the girls can make different patterns. Let me ask you this – Do toddler and squeeze bottles full of paint go together? Learning