It's a great thing to take into school on a casual day because it's easy to make, fits into many subject areas and makes learning fun.
A few ideas for using it in the classroom are:
-3D shapes
-spelling words
-model making
-weighing activities
-using it as counters
-making fractions
A basic, gorgeous recipe I use is:
- 1 cup plain flour
-1/2 cup salt
-2 tsp cream of tartar (it's near the bicarb soda in the baking aisle)
- 1 tsp oil
- 1cup water
-food colouring
- any scents or glitter you may like to add
Just stir up the dry ingredients, mix the water and colour and stir in, bung it in a pot on low/medium heat while stirring constantly for 3-5 mins, dough will start to pull away from the sides of the pot and form a ball, take it out and knead it like mad- put your back into it and get rid of those stringy gluten strands.
Make sure you double check it's cool to bring it into class too but chances are your efforts to bring in something lovely will be appreciated especially if you've a great lesson plan to go with it.
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