Nursery Build a Snowman: Playdough Mat

Build a Snowman: playdough and loose-parts mat. A snowman outline to build with playdough and loose parts. Spaces show where to add eyes, a nose and buttons. A second snowy mat is blank for children’s own snowmen. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Snowman outline mat. • Blank snowy mat. Ideas for using it: • Build him: Roll three balls: big, middle and small. • Face it: Add eyes, a nose and a smile with loose parts. • Dress him: Add a hat and scarf made from fabric. • Your snowman: Build your own snowman on the blank mat. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make. • Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them. • Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details. • Talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes (for example, circles, rectangles, triangles and cuboids) using informal and mathematical language: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.