Category Archives: Malleable and sensory play

Threaded Cereal Bird Feeders

After the slight disaster of the squirrel stealing our loo-roll bird feeders, I saw this idea at a local country park and had high hopes that they might stay put a little longer! The bird feeders are simply made from …

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Gingerbread Playdough

Gingerbread Playdough

“Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread playdough man!” My last post was all about our Gingerbread Biscuits that we made after reading ‘The Gingerbread Boy’, but we continued our gingerbread fun by …

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Water Beads

Water Bead Fun

Water beads are ‘water retaining polymers’ that swell up into soft squidgy balls used for flower arranging, but I have read a lot about them being used for play, below are just a few ideas from some of my favourite …

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Salt dough leaf prints – in a slightly pop art style!

This was an activity that I was really looking forward to from the start of Autumn and it lived up to expectations – Annabelle loved exploring her Autumn leaves and seeing the details in her prints. I got the inspiration …

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Pink playdough cakes, and squishy playdough footprints!

I have always made my playdough cold with just flour, salt, oil and water but I saw this recipe from the Imagination Tree and it was described as the ‘best ever no cook playdough recipe’. They are definitely theĀ  playdough …

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