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Apple Play-doh-mats

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Directions

  • Fill in the google slideshow to create 3-4 reusable interactive play-doh mats
  • The play-doh mat activities should help strengthen fine motor skills, engage children, and encourage fun and learning at the same time.
  • Play-doh mat concepts should be open-ended, offering a variety of prompts that encourage children to use their imaginations, be creative, explore ideas and practice applying Piaget’s pre-operational relational concepts:
    • Classification- group objects by color, shapes, sizes, etc.
    • Seriation- put objects in size order
    • Spatial relationships- how objects fit into space, how they are related to one another (over/under)
    • Conservation: changing the shape of something doesn’t change the amount

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Possible Theme Options (you will select one)

Monsters

Shoes

Fall

Flowers

Fish

Bananas

Camping

Art

Holidays

Weather

Seashells

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Money/coins/banks

Snow/winter

Cookies

Bugs

Zoo

Summer

Snakes

Ice cream

Birds

Dinosaurs

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Theme: Apple

Mat 1: Tree

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Theme: Apple

Mat 2: Basket

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Theme: Apple

Mat 3: Pie

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Play-doh Interactive Objects

Use the shapes feature or images from google to represent the pieces you would have kids create with play-doh to go with the mats

Ex. Roll about 10 apples from the red play-doh and 10 apples from the green play-doh in different sizes. Choose two other colors of play-doh and roll 10-20 thin “strips”(like snakes) in different lengths (keep longer rather than shorter).

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Develop at least 3 Relational Activity Prompts Per Mat

These are activities that can be used with the mat designs that help a child practice the relational concepts. These should be written below and approved by the teacher before continuing.

Mat 1: Tree

  1. Place _______ (pick a #) red apples and ______ (pick a #) green apples on the tree, above the trunk(repeat this using different numbers).
  2. Uh-oh, 7 apples fell off the tree and are on the ground, under the tree; ask child to tell you how many of each color there are.
  3. Line up the apples from smallest to largest in size.
  4. Create a repeating color pattern with 6 of the apples; let the child continue the repeating pattern with the remaining apples

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Develop at least 3 Relational Activity Prompts Per Mat

Mat 2: Basket

  1. Fill the basket up with 7 green apples and 3 red apples.
  2. Pick 2 green apples and 1 red apple from inside the basket and lay them beside the basket.
  3. Smash 10 of the apples in different colors and etch the numbers 1-10 onto them. Ask the child to give you the #_______apple. Continue until all are gone.
  4. Ask the child to line up the numbers in various ways….1-10,10-1, even, odd, etc.
  5. Ask the child to sort the smashed apples by color and then count the number of apples in each group

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Develop at least 3 Relational Activity Prompts Per Mat

Mat 3: Pie

  • Weave the different colored rolled strips of play-doh to resemble the lattice work of a pie crust. Help the child weave the strips under and over each other on top of the pie crust.
  • Line up the rolled snakes from longest to shortest
  • Fill the pie pan with apples asking the child to count them as you fill the container.

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