About Me

Hampshire, United Kingdom
Hi I'm Louise and I've been working with children for over 8 years! Having working in a private day nursery for 6years and now currently working as a Nanny for two families per week. I have been a Nanny since September 2010. I love being able to provide the children in my care a range of different play based activities which they may otherwise never get to experience . I also try to ensure that whilst having fun they're learning important skills to help promote their development and life skills.

Playdough activities



Microwaveable salt dough










1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
1/2cup water
Food colouring -optional

Mix all ingredients together until the form a sticky but firm dough, roll out on to a dry clean surface and cut using cookie/dough cutters
Place shapes into a microwaveable plate and cook on high for 3 minutes (A few extra 30seconds may be required) until the dough is hard,
Allow the shapes to cool before decorating with paint or glitter glue.

I pierced a slight hole at the top of ours before cooking to allow me to thread ribbon through after decorating  and hang them.

I found this recipe on Pinterest originally posted by http://www.rainydaymum.co.uk/
Scented Dough 

Orange 
Strawberry 
Lemon












try these ideas for Scented Play Dough 


Kool-Aid










"Hammer and Nails" in Play dough 

Use golf tees and a toy hammer to "hammer nails" into the play dough great activity for developing those hand eye co-ordination and motor skills 
Let's explore 


Starting with a collection of items and enough Playdough for all those involved, 
we used Feathers, Lolly sticks, cut up straws, cotton reels and pipe cleaners 
along side the Painting stamps used in the Large scale painting activity 

Then let your little ones explore and see where their imaginations take them 

Birthday cakes with lolly stick candles 

A spider with 6 legs and rather scary looking features 
OH NO!!! The Playdough has "chicken pox" 

and finally a "special treat!" made especially for me "cos were best friend" 



Printing on Playdough with Duplo bricks 


Use Duplo bricks to create different prints, marks and patterns in the Playdough 

Patterned Stamps and Shells 


Scissors and Playdough - a great alternative to learning to cut safely with scissors 















Playdough Birthday cakes and Numbers 


http://nanniescreated.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/playdough-birthday-cakes-with-number.html

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