On Thursday last week we made play dough from scratch. It was a center-wide activity set for Wednesday, but with Chapel on Wednesday we ran out of time. So Thursday was our play dough day. We sat around and I asked each person to help with a certain task involved with the process. Someone read the instructions, someone poured the ingredients, someone mixed up the ingredients, and we all took turns putting our hands in to mix it up even more!
The play dough consisted of flour, salt, oil, and food coloring. It was good for the kids to see how simple something like making play dough can be. Maybe they'll try it at home now! :)
Here we are getting ready to dip our hands in the mixture to start mixing it.
Taking turns pouring the ingredients into the mixture. We also learned about measuring cups too which is a good skill to have when working in the kitchen.
I'm looking forward to fall break when we do more cooking like this. It is a challenge to get each kid involved in the process and not make a huge mess, but it's well worth the time to see each child having fun and learning.
We love play dough!
