Wholegrain Play Dough Recipe and Bakery Role-Play

Here’s a recipe for wholegrain play dough which has a wonderful texture and is perfect for baking imaginative play!

Here’s the recipe we used:
2 cups wholegrain flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tbsp cream of tartar
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1.5 cups boiling water

Method:
Place all the dry ingredients into a bowl. Stir in the boiling water and keep mixing until it comes together well and becomes a little harder to mix. Turn it onto the surface and knead it for 3-4 minutes. As you knead it will lose its stickiness and became soft, smooth and pliable. If still too sticky add a little more flour until just right.

We laid out muffin tins, small casserole dishes, rolling pins, plastic knives, a mini loaf tin and some bowls of seeds. We used pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and poppy seeds as these are often used while baking real bread.

 They loved exploring the texture and the wonderfully evocative bread-like smell as they played.

The imaginative play developed naturally as they played. First they just explored the dough and seeds, then they rolled bread rolls and formed loaves and seasoned them. They took them off to bake ten in the oven, which on this occasion was the space under the art easel. It’s somewhere different each time, even though they have a real toy oven!

Then Cakie pulled out the yellow play dough and used it to make butter to spread on her freshly baked bread, using a knife. We were all served our food and had an indoor picnic, delish!

The beautiful scene of focused, imaginative, intentional play!

Learning Links:

• creativity: using imagination to take on a role and character, using one item to represent another in play
• literacy: storytelling through imaginative play, learning and using new vocabulary, following instructions 
• maths: cunning out ingredients, sorting and matching, filling containers/ compartments, weighing etc 

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