Last week as dinosaurs were introduced I set up an invitation to mould dinosaurs with plastercine. Play dough is always available but I like to add other materials, such as plastercine, that can provide opportunities to strengthen their hands.
The first day the children did pinch and shape dinosaurs using the green and yellow
plastercine.
I noticed, too, that the children started to use the dinosaurs as tools.
Pressing them into the plastercine they could make footprints. Or press it on other
parts of the body and see what impression was left.
But the favourite, that I saw over and over, was to add the plastercine to the
dinosaurs, as clothing, skin, necklaces and more.
So it didn’t matter what they were doing they were having fun and still working
those important muscles in their fingers.
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