
Dough!
Play dough is always popular in the pre school/ toddler classes. It really is a wonderfully simple material for creative play. In recent classes we made our own salt dough, the children loved mixing together all the ingredients, kneading the dough and then rolling and cutting out shapes to make decorations. The following week I brought back the baked hard playdough to decorate. They came out beautifully! If you would like to try making salt dough with your child at home here

Amazing playdough
We often incorporate playdough into our themed classes, the children just love it. It really is an amazing way for children to be creative, it can become whatever they wish. We love to add in exciting playdough props to make the experience even more fun. This term some of our favourite have been icy animal and space/moon playdough. To the icy animals we added sugar cubes for icebergs or igloo ice blocks, foil for ice and plenty of glittery pipe cleaners for icicles. For our s