Playdough and sunflower seeds offer interesting opportunities to create patterned designs in the surface of dough. Position the small black & white striped seeds of the huge sunflower plant in arrangements alongside other loose media such as buttons and beads that add variety and choice to the activity. Explore the work of Andy Goldsworthy and Mandala stone art. Sow seeds between March and April and harvest the heads during late summer, drying the seeds for feeding the birds over winter, creative craft projects and remembering to save some to grow again in the spring! Laminated play dough sets now available on Ebay Resources  Yellow playdough recipe or Play-Doh on amazon.co.uk Sunflower seeds for play & to grow yellow and brown buttons Storage pot eg. recycled body butter container Printables: Seed container lid label and insert Sunflower playdough mat Sunflower outline template     Sunflower maths, counting activity using a numbered plantpot sheet to ask 'how many pieces of a paper straw need to cut to build the stalk of a summer sunflower'. Prepare the activity printables using:  Sunflower heads - paper or artificial    Plantpot playdough mats - with numbers or plain  Sunflower number line   Introduce dice and adapt the activity into a game where turns are taken to reach the stalk number specified on the plantpot. Use mathlinks to build stalks, exploring how more means taller or longer and less is  shorter, smaller. Expand to number bonds, using pairs to reach 10 or 20.    FLOWER car check list for vehicle maintenance! Fuel Lights Oil Water Electrics Rubber More information on the AA website   Making paper pots to sow sunflower seeds Harvesting and drying sunflower seeds in the UK    Buy sunflower themed number sheets on ebay     More playdough ideas   Playdough Recipes    Edible playdough recipes     Not for eating  playdough recipes        An alphabet of playdough   Aa - Bb - Cc - Dd - Ee - Ff - Gg - Hh - Ii - Jj - Kk    Ll - Mm - Nn - Oo - Pp - Qq - Rr - Ss - Tt - Uu      Vv - Ww - Xx - Yy - Zz     Seasonal playdough activities            Winter      Spring    Summer    Autumn    Playdough books    Colour themed playdough activities    Mixed - metallic rainbow and duos     Red playdough    Pink playdough    Orange playdough    Yellow playdough    Green playdough    Blue playdough    Purple playdough    Brown playdough    Black playdough    Grey playdough    White playdough  Home  Contact    About this website        Buy playdough products      In the playdough tool box      Playdough activities by age              Benefits of playdough    Sensory playdough activities