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Playing with Play Dough

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Play dough is easy to make and a fun, engaging activity for you and your child to do at home, with most of us having the ingredients in our homes.  It enhances fine motor and pre-writing skills as they  develop and strengthen their hand muscles. The moulding of various shapes encourages  curiosity, creativity and imagination as they discover new colours when mixing  different colours together and can have a calming effect as they squish and squash the dough. It is also a great way to show children early measurement skills.

How to make play dough

  1. 2 cups plain flour
  2. 3/4 cup of salt
  3. 4 teaspoons cream tartar
  4. 2 cups lukewarm water
  5. 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
  6. food colouring optional
Health and Wellbeing, Sciences

Fun Hand Scrubbing

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A fun experiment to do with your child to demonstrate the importance of washing your hands.

Place milk or water in a bowl and add pepper. Your child dips their fingers in having washed their hands with just water…watch!

Now your child adds soap to their fingers and tries again….da da daaaa!

Such a simple and effective demonstration of how washing with soap helps to get rid of germs.

 

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics, Sciences, Technologies

A Very Windy Day!

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We hope everyone is tucked up safe and warm at home.

Maybe you would like to watch Pippins Windy Day. Please click the hyperlink below Pippin the dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nsY4oLPhSk

Why not make a windmill? When the wind dies down tomorrow we could take them outside and watch them spin around.

http://angelstreetmom.com/?tag=windy-day-activities