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To investigate the qualities of clay, plasticine, play dough, salt dough and cornflour. / If you want to give the children a focus to working with these materials after they have experimented freely with them one enjoyable activity links well with Maths and Role play.
Activity 1:
First, using playdough, let the children make a teddy bears’ picnic for a set number of bears. Get them to think about the different types of food like cakes, sandwiches, biscuits. Encourage them to add detail like cherries etc and make the correct amount for all the bears (real life problem).
To develop this make up salt dough with powder paint added to the mixture to create different colours. (This is often more effective than painting the models after they have been cooked.) Let the children create a wide variety of cakes and pastries. A visit to a cake shop or the bakery at Rue Des Pres is a good starting point for this. A little dab of water between salt dough pieces will help to join them. When finished, cook in a low oven until totally dry and then varnish. These can then be used in a role play bakery shop.
Activity 2:
Using clay or plasticine ask the children to make the longest snake they can. Guide them with the best way of rolling the material to make an even “snake”. Can they make a wavy line, a spiral, a geometric shape, a zig zag ? Look at the way other artists like Kandinsky and Klimt use lines like these in their paintings and Goldsworthy in his natural sculptures. /

W. Kandinsky

G. Klimt

A. Goldsworthy

/ Model
Press
Join
Salt dough
Playdough
Detail
Varnish
Roll
Spiral
Vocabulary associated with line and length / Maths
Role play
Problem Solving
Language and Literacy
Science- change in state / Play dough/salt dough (recipes can be found in craft books and children’s activity books)
Powder paint
Varnish
Plasticine
Clay- air dry if you want to keep the models