Tag: Imaginative Play

Decorate the Cookies Playdough Mat

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If you have followed my blog for any amount of time, you know that I adore playdough. I love the texture, smell, and versatility. It is my favorite “surprise activity” to calm down rambunctious kiddos or focus free spirits.

Playdough mats are a wonderful way to inspire your readers’ creativity!

One of our favorite Christmas activities is decorating cut out cookies and taking them to all our neighbors. The kids love the cookie cutters, colorful icing, and sprinkles! For our Christmas in July theme I decided to take that same idea and turn it into a playdough activity that can be done anytime. Check out this fun cookie plate full of cookies ready to be decorated! And no baking necessary!

Grab the FREE printable, HERE!

Pull our different colors of playdough (or get super fancy and make your own!!) , cookie cutters, and tools. Then, get to work! I love that their creations are different every time. The uniqueness and creativity is my favorite part!

I highly recommend laminating your playdough mats so that the playdough doesn’t stick to the paper.

PRO TIP – print this free printable playdough mat and one of our other Christmas playdough mats. Then, put the pages back to back before using your laminator. Now you will have a 2-sided play dough mat that will keep your kiddos busy for hours!

Happy Decorating!!

Flutter Ribbon Rocket

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Space Week is turning out to be a huge learning opportunity for me! I am fully embracing the challenge and wonder that come with new discoveries! A sweet friend told me of all kinds of local activities that would go with our Space Week theme so stay tuned to see how many of those we can incorporate this week! We might need a longer space unit soon!

We are reading tons of fun space-related books this week. One thing most have in common…. a countdown to a BLAST OFF! This fun activity can help your reader imagine they are blasting off to space in their own rocket!

Materials:

  • Grab your FREE Flutter Ribbon Rocket printable HERE
  • Markers, crayons, or pencils to color your design
  • Scissors and tape
  • Streamers in fiery colors
  • A string and a stick (we used a lollipop stick from a hobby store! It was the perfect length for little hands!)

Once you grab your free printable, let your little reader go crazy coloring their unique design. I love that the rockets are as original as the kiddos who make them!

Then, help your little to cut out the rocket ship.

Now let your little use tape or glue to fix the streamers to the bottom of the rocket. I like keeping the streamers pretty long so that there is a lot of “fire” swirling around as they play. Just remember, you don’t want your reader stepping on and tripping on the streamers!

Next, tape the string to the top of the rocket (or punch a hole and tie it!) and tape the other end of the string to the stick.

Check out these 2 amazing rockets that these sweet kiddos made at story time this week! I loved seeing all the rockets flying all around the room!

Flying them outside is even more beautiful! A little bit of wind and your rocket will get picked up like a kite!

Bonus – they are the perfect decoration for our bookshelf while not in use!

How fun is this? I cannot wait to hear what adventures your reader goes on while racing their personal Flutter Ribbon Rocket around!

Did you miss the FREE printable Flutter Ribbon Rocket? Click HERE to download now!

Happy Rocket Launching!