AM Medium Term Plan –
Year: Primary
Term: Summer term 2 – Sensory Play
Vocabulary and Resources
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Main Activity
Salt dough door plaque with name on it
1
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In a large bowl mix salt and flour together.
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Gradually stir in water. Mix well until it forms a doughy
consistency.
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Salt
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Turn the dough onto the bench and knead with your
hands until smooth and combined.
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Flour
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Use fingers or paint brushes to write out names or
patterns
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Baking sheet
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Place the salt dough creations into the oven at 180C.
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Rolling pins
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Paint brushes
Paint plaques once dry – this could be done in the following
sensory play session
Paper mache hot air balloon (2 lessons)
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2
Touch
Sight
Smell
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Chn to design their hot air balloons before starting the
activity. Chn will then refer back to this when decorating
their hot air balloon.
Mix one part flour with one part of water (eg, 1 cup flour
and 1 cup water, or 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup water) until
you get a thick glue-like consistency. Add a bit more water
if it's too thick. Mix well with a spoon to get rid of all the
lumps.
Touch
Sight
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ICT and
Cross
Curricular
links
(where
appropriate)
Fine Motor
Development
– supports
Fine Motor
Skills OT
group
session
Literacy –
describing
Maths –
measuring
Fine and
Gross Motor
Development
News paper
Pva glue
Wall plaques from
previous week
Paints
Paint brushes
Literacy –
describing
Maths measuremen
t
Evaluation
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Blow up latex free balloons to cover with the paper
mache mixture.
 Allow to dry for following week.
Complete decorating the wall plaques from previous lesson if
there is time.
Paper mache hot air balloon or animals (2 lessons)
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Chn to use designs from previous week to
support them when decorating their hot air
balloons.
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Encourage chn to comment on the texture of the
balloon no it has dried.
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Chn to assemble baskets for the base of the
balloon and attach ribbon to this. This will be
attached to the balloons once they have dried.
3
-Summer collage using natural materials e.g. soil, leaves.
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4
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5
Chn to go on a walk around the school grounds to collect
natural items.
When back in the class model how to create a collage
using the natural materials. Chn could wither make a
scene or stick together a series of materials they liked
from their walk.
Encourage chn to discuss the texture of each object and
describe anything they might smell e.g. flowers, grass.
-Miniature garden (tray with sand/soil/rice), make patterns in
it with lentils, beads etc.
 Explain that over the next couple of weeks we will be
creating our own miniature garden. For P1 and 2 this
could be a mini garden for elves or fairies. For P3 and 4
this could be a miniature Feng Shui garden.
 Show possible ideas on the IWB to give students and
Touch
Sight
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Motor
Development
Paint
Paint brushes
Glue
Cardboard
Ribbon
Designs from previous
week.
Touch
Sight
Sound
 A3 paper
 PVA glue
 Natural items
Literacy describing
Fine and
Gross Motor
Development
Art and
design
Literacy describing
Touch
Sight
Smell
 Shoe boxes
 Design sheet.
Fine and
Gross Motor
Development
Art and
design
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ideas.
Today chn will design their miniature gardens using
design sheet.
Once compete chn can go outside to collect items they
might want to use for their garden.
Reinforce that we will NOT be creating our gardens today,
the main focus is to plan and start collecting items for next
week.
-Miniature garden (tray with sand/soil/rice), make patterns in
it with lentils, beads etc.
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6
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Using design from previous week students will begin to
assemble their own gardens.
Provide students with natural items and items from school
to support them to make their own gardens.
Encourage students to create this independently however
support may be needed with cutting, gluing etc.
Once complete chn can take their mini gardens home!
Slime!
7
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Add glue to mixing bowl.
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Add water to glue and stir to combine.
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Sprinkle baking soda into mixture and stir to combine.
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Add food colouring and glitter as desired.
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Add saline solution and stir quickly to form the slime! –
Adult to mix this up prior to the activity. There is a store of
this in the primary office.
Literacy describing
Touch
Sight
Smell
 Garden design from
previous week.
 Shoe boxes
 Paint
 Natural items
 Glue
 Paint brushes.
Fine and
Gross Motor
Development
Touch
Sight
Fine and
Gross Motor
Development
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Saline solution
Glitter
PVA glue
Plastic cups
Food colouring
Literacy describing
Literacy describing
Q: What does it feel like? Can you stretch it?
Compete an evaluation after each lesson and take pictures where possible to record development in the sensory play folders.