Caroline
Welcome to another edition of the 12 Months of Sensory Dough Series. This month is all about Fizzy Dough. Do I dare say this has been our most favorite month so far? Gasp! We seriously loved it! We combined a fabulous Small World Fizzy Dough activity found at Fun at Home with Kids together with an alphabet hunt and had such a great afternoon of fun and learning!
We have been reviewing our letters this week using the book Rainbow Fish A, B, C by Marcus Pfister. There isn’t much text in it at all. It’s basically a review of the alphabet in correct order by Rainbow Fish and other fish in the ocean gathering all the letters they find in the ocean throughout the pages.
When I originally saw Fun at Home with Kids’ Fizzy Small World Ocean Activity I fell in love with it! You can clearly see I got my entire idea for this activity from them so in an effort to give them full credit I want you to go over to their site to see exactly how to make your fizzy dough and how they set up their ocean bin.
The major change we made in our activity is that instead of hiding sea creatures inside our fizzy dough, we hid the alphabet. I purchased my small plastic alphabet bead letters from Michael’s and hid them inside our dough to look like seashells just as Asia did. Since I didn’t have any seashells on hand, I used a fork to stamp the fizzy dough to make it look like the appearance of a seashell. We also used our Safari Coral Reef TOOB Creatures instead of the Ocean TOOB creatures since I wanted to include fish to go along with our Rainbow Fish theme.
My daughter started out mesmerized by the fizzing and all the bubbles created by the reaction of the baking soda and vinegar coming together. We sat and listened to all the popping sounds and talked about how neat it was.
Once she discovered there were letters hidden inside the seashells she took on a whole new level of excitement. It was if she couldn’t get through them fast enough. She just could not wait to find all of those letters. It was pretty cute!
“It’s a P Mommy!”
After she found all the letters she enjoyed small world play with all the little creatures. The octopus was her favorite. In her deep octopus voice she kept telling all the other fish to “Stay away from my treasure!” It was a hoot for me to watch!
While my daughter played I lined all the letters up in random order along the towel to dry. Before we cleaned up I had her line them up in correct order from A to Z, naming them as she put them in order. I was there to help her if she needed any assistance or got stuck along the way.
Make sure to check out our Rainbow Fish Alphabet Match Activity!
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