We love going to the play park and have already spent many sunny days playing on swings and slides and climbing over climbing frames this summer. So I wasn’t really surprised when our play dough became a play park one rainy afternoon. I was inspired by Puttisworld to try some construction with cocktail sticks and play dough. I was hoping to talk about squares and triangles, but imagination took hold and we ended up with a mini play park.
This is our recipe for play dough:
2 cups flour
½ cup salt
2 tbsp oil
1 ½ cup boiling water
Squeeze of lemon juice
Generous splash of red food colouring
I adapted this from one I found on The Imagination Tree where you can find many recipes and wonderful ideas for play dough play.
So, we started with this:
This is our recipe for play dough:
2 cups flour
½ cup salt
2 tbsp oil
1 ½ cup boiling water
Squeeze of lemon juice
Generous splash of red food colouring
I adapted this from one I found on The Imagination Tree where you can find many recipes and wonderful ideas for play dough play.
So, we started with this:
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| Pink Play Dough and Cocktail Sticks |
And ended up with swings:
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| Play Dough Swings |
A slide:
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| Play Dough Slide |
Balancing bars:
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| Play Dough Balancing Bars |
And an interesting climbing frame:
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| Play Dough Climbing Frame |
Actually, I did most of the design work and B made interesting shapes with the dough (the climbing frame is all his) but we had a great conversation while working with the play dough and I hope I sparked his creativity for the possibilities of play dough.