Today’s invitation in the Stay at Home, Screen Free Activities Programme is all about play dough.
Never made it before? Run out of ideas for something new?
Here are my top ten play dough ideas – and an easy recipe for homemade playdough.
Fall play dough recipes: clove, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg
Here are some favourite fall play dough recipes, featuring autumn colours and lovely warming spices. They’re so wonderful to play with, giving your children a sensory boost on colder autumn days.
Ginger and cinnamon salt tray :: how to learn spellings
How do you help your children learn spellings? Here’s a multi-sensory idea to try: we’re making cinnamon and ginger scented salt and using it with our autumn leaf word tree, for learning that looks, smells and feels great!
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Simple sensory play :: mixing potions
Kat from Creative Playhouse joins us today with a super simple sensory play idea that’s great when you have babies, toddlers or preschoolers playing together :: she’s mixing potions!
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Sight words seashells :: sensory spellings
How do you help your children learn sight words and spellings? My girls are a whole lot more interested when their learning is through hands-on, sensory play. Here’s how we’re using some of our stash of seashells from the beach to help with learning how to read and spell.
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The best kids painting ideas :: Simple Play
For day three of our at-home, screen free activities series, we’re taking a cue from a report in the US that opportunities for art can have a dramatic and positive effect on children’s academic performance, and we’re all about: paint!
