Nursery Robot Builder: Loose-Parts Playdough Mat

Robot Builder: loose-parts and playdough mat A big robot outline with dashed spaces for buttons, eyes, a mouth and a control panel. Children decorate it with loose parts or playdough and decide what their robot can do. What’s included • Teacher guide with Development Matters links • Robot loose-parts playdough mat with loose-parts prompt cards Ideas for using it • Build a robot: Fill the dashed spaces with loose parts or dough. • What can it do? Ask: “What does this button do?” and act it out. • Robot voices: Speak and move like your robot. • Junk robot: Build a 3D robot from boxes using the mat as a plan. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds) • Join different materials and explore different textures. • Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them. • Take part in simple pretend play, using an object to represent something else even though they are not similar. • Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.