arts and crafts 2

My next arts and crafts room was the preK class (4 year olds mostly)…and colleen wants something they can really get into…she said she tried fingerprinting once but the teacher had the kids come up one by one and get their finger stamped…so we had a the idea of making playdough…I wasn’t too crazy about the first recipe we found—flour and salt as that is their main food here and it just doesn’t feel right using it for arts when so many people are hungry…so we found a recipe that uses sawdust—hopefully we can teach them not to eat it…but there are 26 kids in the class and as it was a trial we didn’t have enough stuff to make the dough with everyone…so I was trying to come up with different ideas for those who would be a different tables…we ended having a table for the dough, one with beading, one with threading shapes and coloring…I think they enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to going back next week to do another round of playdough and various activities…