Playdough

Today, the kids in my class (all three of them...it was a holiday, you know) played with the new batch of play dough I made on Friday (after the boy got sick on the batch I had made Thursday). This isn't your normal play dough...it is chunky. I found a reference to adding rock salt to the play dough in place of a portion of the table salt (theteachertom.com). I replaced about half.

We have been discussing what it is in the dough that makes it chucky. Many suggested ice. We discussed that ice would make the dough squishy as it melted (I need to get an ice cube and sacrifice a chunk of dough to observation). Crystals, beads, and diamonds were also suggested. Earlier today, we did some salted watercolor art (watercolor on fingerpaint paper, then sprinkle table and rock salt on it...see what happens). While we were looking at the play dough later, I asked if the chunks looked familiar. One of them realized that they looked like the rock salt. We will see if they remember that tomorrow :)

So we spent our time flattening, smooshing, squishing, cutting, pinching, and rolling our new chunky dough. In other words, we had fun.