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Description

Get creative with this foamy dough

Resources

Mixing bowls
Cornflour
Shaving foam
Things to make the foam dough more interesting (optional)

Instructions

Before you begin
Decide whether you want to add anything to make your dough more interesting. You could change the texture (or make it sparkle) with salt, sugar or sand; make it colourful with food colouring; or even add dried flowers like little pieces of lavender.
Make sure no one has any allergies or sensitivities to cornflour, shaving foam, or anything you’ll add to your foam dough.

Make your foam dough
Everyone should get into pairs or groups of three.
Each group should collect a bowl, some cornflour, and some shaving foam.
Each group should add equal amounts of cornflour and shaving foam to their bowl and mix it until it forms a soft ball.
If the mixture feels dry, add more shaving foam; if it feels too wet, add more cornflour. An adult could move around and help everyone check their mixtures.
If they want to, each group could add salt, sugar, sand, food colouring, or dried flowers to make their foam dough more interesting.
Each group should get stuck in and use their imagination and initiative to make some models with their foam dough.
We’ve included some questions to help you reflect in the pink box below.

Reflection
In this activity, everyone developed their creative, problem-solving skills to make a ball of dough.

Princess Bubble Pop’s Bubble Bath

What was everyone’s favourite part of the story?
How does everyone think Billie felt when they helped make the bubbliest bath?

Make your foam dough
What did the dough feel like?
What did everyone choose to make with the foam dough?
Safety
All activities must be safely managed. Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Do a risk assessment and take appropriate steps to reduce risk. Always get approval for the activity and have suitable supervision and an InTouch process.

Food
Check for allergies before you begin and read the guidance on food safety. Make sure you have suitable areas for storing and preparing food and avoid cross-contamination of different foods.


Change the level of challenge
It’s great to encourage everyone to try to make the foam dough mixture for themselves, but it’s a good idea for an adult to offer a helping hand if anyone’s really struggling.
You could encourage groups to make models of certain things or to theme their models around different things.

Make it accessible
Try to make sure everyone can take part in a way that works for them. If some people don’t want to touch the mixture, they could still help with pouring and mixing the ingredients. Some people might want to wear gloves when they’re touching the foam dough.
Check that no one has any allergies or sensitivities you need to be aware of.

Tags

• foam
• model making
• science experiment

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