With all of the enticing aroma and none of the super-stickiness, this maple scented play dough makes a sweet addition to the sensory supplies! It only takes a few easily found ingredients and a couple of minutes to create! Prepping the Maple Play Dough Start with the BEST play dough recipe base ever. 1 cup…
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Irresistible Chocolate Play Dough
This chocolate play dough is almost good enough to eat! As a bonus, chocolate is good at any time of the year, easily tied into multiple themes. Is Valentine’s Day around the corner? Add the heart-shaped cookie cutters and some empty chocolate candy boxes. Planning a Winter theme? Add small mugs and white pom-poms and…
Apple Cinnamon Play Dough
A favorite preschool theme is The Five Senses. It’s perfect for all of the sights, sounds, and smells of fall and it’s also a great way to start off the school year. We plan center activities that incorporate multiple senses, that are inviting and of course fun! This Apple Cinnamon Play Dough is a perfect…
Best Play Dough Recipe
Like most preschool teachers, I have tried a hundred different play dough recipes! Store-bought play dough is expensive, especially for the number of children who play with it, and I don’t love the smell or texture. So, even in my early days as an undergraduate education student I always experimented with homemade play dough. I…
Stretchy Oobleck
Our preschoolers love great sensory experiences! Last week we made slime, and today we tried a variation on the traditional Oobleck recipe. This “Stretchy Oobleck” holds together better than water and cornstarch, and stretches a bit like slime. It smells heavenly, and cleans up easily with water. During centers, the children took turns passing it…
Sensory Slime
Slime is magical, wonderful substance. We made Christmas slime in December that turned into brown mud slime! So in January we decided to try again and make blue slime. The basic slime recipe calls for equal parts liquid starch, white glue and water. We used 1 cup of each and added a few drops of blue…
Clean Mud
This week we cleaned the Insta-Snow out of our sensory table and decided to make clean mud to fill it up. We followed this simple recipe from Happy Hooligans, and it turned out great! It takes only 2 simple ingredients! The students took turns exploring the ivory soap with their senses. We touched it, observed…
Banana Bread
Our preschoolers love to cook! One of our favorite recipes is banana bread. It has enough ingredients and steps to keep everyone busy. And, of course, the end result is a yummy snack that has the kiddos beaming with pride. When we cook with our preschoolers, we let them do all of the work. Cooking…
Homemade Applesauce
The final snack during our apple unit was applesauce. Since the individual apple pies were such a big hit, we decided to try making our own applesauce. It turns out that it is easy and so much fun! To begin, we peeled, cored and sliced a lot of apples. The plan was for each child to…
Individual Apple Pies
Our preschoolers LOVE to cook, and our apple unit lends itself to lots of fun recipes. We were inspired by this post by Powerful Mothering about how to make homemade apple pies with preschoolers. It looks fabulous, and if we only had 1 preschool student that’s what we would have done. But, the reality is…