Princess Playdough

This week we took the Play dough pledge. The idea of the pledge run by the Nurture store, The imagination Tree and Sun hats and wellie boots is to try something new with play dough.

At the moment our theme is 'Pirates and princesses'. This has been a really fun topic and the children have got really involved. Our idea for the pledge was to try incorporating a new material with it. I looked around for some craft gems but was unable to get them in time so instead I picked up some pretty flowers.

I made some no cook play dough from an old recipe using 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, 1 table spoon of oil and 1 cup of water. Then added some pink food colouring, glitter and a natural rose oil for a sweet smelling fragrance.

The table was laid out with just the play dough and flowers for the children. When they first came in A asked 'whats this?' and I explained that this was their princess playdough. To which they both reacted with WOW!

They both loved trying to pick out the glitter at first and then moved on to see how many flowers they could squash into the playdough.

 Little man made a cake fit for a princess.  He flattened down the playdough with the palm of his hand and then laid the flowers on top.

A made a lovely princess pie. She flattened a piece of playdough and placed the flowers inside before wrapping it back up again.

The activity went really well and the children loved making patterns and explore a new material.