Materials
stiff cardboard or poster board
large permanent markers
ruler
child-safe scissors
books on animals and their tracks
Instructions
1. Beforehand, prepare plain playdough from any recipe.
2. Form playdough into as many balls as you like, about 2" in size.
3. Poke a finger into a ball of dough. Drop in a small dot of food coloring. Close
it over with playdough. Poke another hole, and put in another tiny drop of
color. Repeat closing. Make a third hole with a third color.
4. Do this for all the balls of dough.
5. Place balls of dough on a tray for the Art Station.
6. Encourage the children to explore and squeeze the balls of playdough.
Encourage them to squeeze, roll, explore, and manipulate. As they play with
the dough, the colors will start to mix into rainbow colors, eventually
completely changing the color of the ball of dough.
