Miss Christina’s No Cook Kool Aid Play Doh Recipe
1 cup of flour
¼ cup of salt
¾ cup of warm/hot water
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
1 packet of any flavor Kool Aid for color and smell!
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, add wet ingredients, and stir quickly to combine. Knead on a flat surface (you may want to line with parchment or wax paper) until soft and workable and allow to cool before playing.
A great fine motor, hand strengthening activity is play doh! Many of you expressed interest in a play doh recipe for at home. The benefit to making your own play doh is that it is harder for children to manipulate than store bought and works hands muscles differently… plus its so fun and smells great!
Looking forward, I know many of you have expressed interest in being in the classroom. I have reached out to Arts and Scraps in Detroit- an organization that repurposes odds and ends into open-ended art materials. We have a very artistic class. I hope to plan a field trip experience for us in the upcoming months. They may even be willing to come to the school for us. Your children have also expressed great interest in a library experience. We are planning a field trip to the Dearborn Public Library for April (hopefully) so that we can set your child up with a library card and they can explore the books available. Field Trips will require at least one parent or guardian per child.
We are working on shapes, colors, counting, and number formation in handwriting. The kids are also very interested in trucks, the five senses, and feelings. We will be exploring these topics for the next few weeks more in depth. We are working on letters A, N, M, and W the most difficult letters to write due to their diagonal lines. We’ll spend quite a bit of time on this before moving on to lowercase letters. We’ve been enjoying sensory play and have many options available in the classroom- pots with gold coins, rice, and scooping tools, water with sand toys and eyedroppers, and letters in sensory beads.
Can you believe we’re already thinking about the end of the year? We ARE planning some kind of preK graduation and party for the end of the year for those that have asked. I’m open to suggestions and I’ll keep you updated as we solidify plans.