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Participants experiment to create their own recipe. Children predict a recipe, try it and observe the results and use their observations to make a play dough recipe.
Materials needed:
- 2 recipe cards per child (450 kb file)
- pencils
- flour
- water
- salt
- 1 small bowl per child
- 1 teaspoon per child
- 3 tablespoons
To do:
- Place bowls of flour, water, and salt on the table. Place a tablespoon in each bowl.
- Hand out cards that say "My First Play Dough Recipe" and pencils to each of the children. Ask them to predict how many spoons of each ingredient they might need to make play dough, then write this "recipe" on the card.
- Hand out a bowl and spoon to each child and allow them to make their play dough recipe. As they mix their ingredients together, discuss their prior experiences with play dough. How did it feel? Was it really wet, so it stuck to everything it touched? Was it so dry that it crumbled when you tried to roll it?
- Encourage each participant to share with the group how his/her recipe turned out and what he/she might do to improve it. (Most will be too wet or dry.)
- Now, allow them to add more ingredients to their play dough to reach the correct consistency. Make sure to keep track of the quantities of ingredients being added.
- Once they have reached the right consistency, hand out the cards "My Second Play Dough Recipe." On this card, they can write their improved recipe.
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