Flower Painting and Playdough

This week at playgroup we experimented with  flower paints and playdough.

 

For the flower painting we used old cloth, paper, flowers (picked by the children) and things to bang with.

Place the flowers on the paper cover it all with cloth and start banging away. Then lift up the cloth and....

surprise!

The playdough activity was soothing.  I followed this recipe:  

2 cups of plain flour

1 cup of salt

1 tspn of cream of tarta

2 cups of water (you can colour the water if you like)

1 Tbspn. of  cooking oil

Place all the ingredients in large pot with at thick heavy bottom and stir away on a medium heat until thick.

There are many recipes for playdough.  This is not the easiest, but it's still pretty simple and the texture turns out  lovely. It also lasts longer.

I made the playdough just before playgroup so that it was warm for the children to touch giving the opportunity to introduce new vocabulary while experiencing warmth.  I also chose not to colour the dough.  I left this for the children to do them selves. They were able to choose colours and see how the food colour slowly changed as the dough as it was kneaded.