Beanstalk
playdough and the season of spring as it brings a
flurry of new baby birds, leaf buds and the colourful arrival of springtime
flowers. This dough activity can be used to support younger children's
mathematical skills as dough stalks are rolled, measured, decorated with
leaves and dressed with curling tendrils. Descriptive language helps to
explore size, position and quantity, and of course storytelling. Beanstalk
tips are notorious for using cloud cover to cloak the arrival of would-be-tresspassers
.. our Giant's story a little later! for now ask your dough-happy participants
what they think might lie above the white fluffy cloud sitting atop their
tallest, mid or shortest beanstalk!
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Fibre slime filled beanstalk centres!
We prepared a few rolls of playdough with 'edible fibre slime as the
core and had bowls of the flubbery stuff to use as wished.
Fibre
slime recipe
16gm Pysillium Husk powder, 1pt warm water +
6.00 minutes in a 600w microwave.
It will be hot, once cold it takes on a likeness to the consistency
of borax slime.
Alternatively cook over heat until the liquid
becomes a thick gel.
More activities
5
Peas in a pea pod number rhyme can be adapted for runner
beans!
Planting runner beans - seed sowing between Febraury -
April - paper pot maker on amazon.co.uk
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