Good morning everyone<\/p>\n
We hope you all had a good weekend.\u00a0 Some new idea\u2019s to try at home\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n
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Playdough<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Why not get your child involved in helping to make playdough, it\u2019s a firm favourite at nursery. L.1. Through creative play, I explore different materials and can share my reasoning for selecting materials for different purposes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>For an easy non-cook recipe please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Benefits of Playdough<\/strong><\/p>\n Fine motor development:<\/strong> As part of simple, tactile play it can be squashed, squeezed, rolled, flattened, chopped, cut, scored, raked, punctured, poked and shredded! Each one of these different actions aids fine motor development in a different way, not to mention hand-eye co-ordination and general concentration.<\/p>\n Having a wide range of\u00a0additional extras<\/strong>\u00a0to use while playing extends the investigation and play possibilities endlessly. Poking in sticks provides a challenge and a new physical skill.<\/p>\n Squeezing through a garlic press leads to wonder and amazement at seeing it change shape, as well as using a gross motor movement to accomplish it.<\/p>\n Sticking in spaghetti requires a delicate hand and can lead to threading and stacking pasta shapes or beads over the top.<\/p>\n Providing\u00a0boxes and containers<\/strong>\u00a0with various shaped compartments can lead to cooking play, sorting, matching, ordering and counting, all naturally and without pressure to learn.<\/p>\n By providing\u00a0objects from nature<\/strong>\u00a0with a wide\u00a0range of textures<\/strong>, colours and shapes, children can have multi-sensory experiences and engage with the world around them in a whole new way.<\/p>\n List of additional extras needed to create a play dough free play kit<\/u><\/strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n This is by no means a comprehensive list, but all of these elements can be used to create plenty of exciting,\u00a0open-ended play times<\/strong>:<\/p>\n toy creatures Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning everyone We hope you all had a good weekend.\u00a0 Some new idea\u2019s to try at home\u2026\u2026\u2026 Playdough Why not get your child involved in helping to make playdough, it\u2019s a firm favourite at nursery. L.1. Through creative play, I explore different materials and can share my reasoning for selecting materials for different … Continue reading “NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94001,101],"tags":[132688],"class_list":["post-20793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-learning","category-nursery","tag-playdough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20793\/revisions\/20794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/eastcalderprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe\u00a0properties of play dough make it fun for\u00a0investigation\u00a0and\u00a0exploration\u00a0as well as secretly\u00a0building up strength<\/strong>\u00a0in all the tiny hand muscles and tendons, making them ready for pencil and scissor control later on.<\/p>\n
\nstraws
\nrolling pins, plastic knives, scissors, pizza cutters
\ncupcake cases in different sizes
\ncoloured and natural feathers
\npine cones, sticks, bark, leaves
\nmuffin tins, egg cartons, chocolate boxes,
\nsmall cups and shot glasses
\nalphabet, number and shape cookie cutters
\npasta shapes
\nshells
\nbuttons
\nglass pebbles
\ntoy vehicles
\nwooden letters and numbers
\nfabric, netting and ribbons
\nmatch sticks and lolly sticks<\/p>\n