"Who you looking at?!"
My friend Naomi made some fabulous creatures with her boys using play dough and googly eyes a little while ago, and this week, inspired by that, we made some SCARY MONSTERS of our own!
For this activity I put out the following into some bowls:
- googly eyes
- pasta shapes
- bottle tops
- cut up pipe cleaners
- lots of glitter!
Along with three big balls of play dough in red, blue and black made using our cooked play dough recipe that can be found here.
And we had a go at learning how to roll the dough using two flat hands on top, which is quite a skill of dexterity. C practised over and over and ended up making this fantastic stand up monster!
Learning Links:
- fine motor skills: using a malleable material to pull, pinch, roll, flatten, mold, form, squeeze, squash to strengthen small hand muscles
- creativity: creating representations of real life or imaginary things using another medium, experimenting with combining materials
- literacy: developing language and storytelling through imaginary play
- maths: counting out cup fulls to follow simple instructions/ recipes, discussing and comparing lengths and thicknesses
Cakie: 37 months
Pop: 18 months
Oh that looks fabby! We did something similar a little while ago but had googly eyes, pipe cleaners, buttons and little gems. Chloe loved it and I did make a few creations too!!
ReplyDeleteLove the black glittery one, where so you get the very fine glitter from, i can only ever find really chunky bits.
Thanks xx
That looks like so much fun, and very good for the kids creative skills :)
ReplyDeleteThe monsters look fab!
So pleased I gave you an idea! They look fab, the stand up one made me giggle! I love how the addition of eyes immediately brings the blobs to life and each one seems to have a different character (with different voices to match of course!). We have black sparkly playdough at the moment too :)
ReplyDeleteI admire you: I'm afraid that I can't bear getting glitter everywhere. It gets into every crevice, much like the lentils I used with our pumpkin playdough. Dh subsequently banned the lentil from ever crossing the threshold.....
ReplyDeleteLovelovelove it. How long 'til I can do this with the girls? Maybe we'll do it Thursday afternoon. Thank you, as ever, for the idea!
ReplyDeleteLove this! I've had the googly-eye idea in my notebook as a Halloween activity, but am definitely going to be adding a helluva lot of glitter into that now too!
ReplyDeleteBlue Skies,
Charlotte xo
oooh, super cool! (I might have to break my no-glitter-inside rule.)
ReplyDeleteLove it! I want to do it! I love fun Halloween ideas. You might enjoy my blog: Kindergarten for Parents and Teachers. I'll put a link to your blog.
ReplyDeleteI love this idea, we've been having a lot of fun with monsters at our house lately and I think I may need to add a few of these into the mix. They look fun to make and play with. :)
ReplyDeleteLove those googly eyes in the play dough. How fun! Another brilliant idea from the one and only Anna. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is SOOO cool!! I am pinning that. I am starting a Linky Party if you want to link up at http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-ever-linky-party.html
ReplyDeleteWE used your black play dough recipe this weekend! I'll be linking to it in an upcoming post!! It was fabulous!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing on the Sunday Showcase! I hope to see you again this week! I showcased these on facebook & Twitter!
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