Life A5.1 Playdough
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PRATICAL-LIFE DEVELOPMENT ALBUM

ELEMENTARY MOVEMENT

A5.1 PLAYDOUGH


MATERIALS:

A plate, a container with lid, playdough, roller and cookie cutters.

PREPARATION:

Materials are ready. Invite the child. Name activity. Show child were material is located. Child is ready to work with this activity.

PRESENTATION:

1. Walk with the child to the shelf where the material is located.

2. Pick up the plate with two hands and carry it to the table. Have child sit on subdominant hand.

3. Take the container and put it on the front of you.

4. Hold the container with sub-dominant hand and use dominant hand to open the lid.

5. Put the lid beside the container and take the playdough out.

6. Pick out the roller and roll the playdough into a circle or expand it.

7. Put the roller back to plate and take the cookie cutter out.

8. Put the cookie cutter on the top of playdough and press the cookie cutter.

9. Take the around playdough out with dominant hand.

10. Hold the cookie cutter with sub-dominant and use two fingers to push playdough down.

11. Child can do any shape or picture they want. They can use their hands also.

12. When is finished, pick up the playdough into container and close the lid.

13. Replace the materials to the plate and return to the shelf.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

1. Seeing do not clean up the material.

2. Seeing do not close container's lid.

POINTS OF INTEREST:

1. Seeing different shapes of cookie cutter

2. Seeing making different shape of product.

3. Feeling use roller.

4. Feeling play playdough with hands.

DIRECT AIMS:

1. Development O.C.C.I.

2. Preparation for writing.

3. Development hand and eye coordination.

INDIRECT AIMS:

1. Learning making different shapes.

VOCABULARY:

Playdough, plate, roller, cookie cutter, and the name of cookie cutter shapes.

AGE:

2.5 and up.

VARIATION EXTENSION:

1. Have different color playdough.


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