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    Home » Early Years Science » Christmas Spice Play Dough – Match the smell to the spice

    Christmas Spice Play Dough – Match the smell to the spice

    December 1, 2014 By Emma Vanstone Leave a Comment

    I made this fun and easy Guess the Christmas Smell Play Dough for our school Christmas Fair and the children, loved it.

    I laid our three different types of Christmas spice-flavoured play dough in bowls and the Christmas spices in another, then asked the children to match the spice to the play dough.

    How to make Christmas Spice Play Dough

    • Play dough  – I used a basic play dough recipe and added a little bit of mint essence, cinnamon, vanilla essence, ground cloves – basically anything lovely and festive.

    Once you’ve made the play dough, lay it out nicely and ask the children to match the play dough to the herb or spice.

    Christmas play dough in a bowl with spice next to it

    Can you think of any other flavours to try?

    More Play Dough Ideas

    Decoration shapes

    Ask children to roll out a ball of play dough and push a Christmas decoration into it. The decorations should leave a lovely impression in the play dough.

    Christmas coloured balls of play dough with small festive decorations in a wooden presentation box.

    How much force?

    Play a game where each person has to use the minimum number of pushes or pulls to the play dough to make a specific shape and the other players have to guess what the shape is.

    Play Dough Challenge

    Ask each player to make an animal model and the other players have to guess what they’ve made. This would be fun to do at Christmas making reindeer, elves, Santa hats etc.

    child's hands playing with Christmas themed play dough
    Christmas play dough activity. Match the Christmas spice to the play dough #Christmas #Christmasplaydough #scienceforkids

    I’ve also got a fun Christmas advent calendar with an activity for the 12 days leading up to Christmas.

    Last Updated on November 28, 2022 by Emma Vanstone

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