Tuesday 7th February 2012

Nursery Activity Ideas - Cornflour Play

Children of all ages will enjoy this messy activity.

Pour some corn flour into a bowl and mix it with water until it becomes thick, so you can still pour it but feels solid under pressure. Pour the cornflour onto the table and allow the children to explore the texture of the mixture.

Different toys can be added for the children to play with in the cornflour such as megablocks, cars or animals.

A small amount of food colouring or essenses can also be added to the water when mixing the cornflour.

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5 Comments to “Cornflour Play”

Laura
Wed 24th Sep 08

Great idea. So simple and easy to do. I gave my toddler a few different sized bowls as well. A happy, messy 30 minutes!

kate
Tue 19th May 09

corn flour is awesome, and the best part is it’s so messy, the kids at my nursery love it, but i think i like it more!

Becky
Sun 19th Sep 10

I love cornflour! The children were I work love it too! When i was given the job at college of putting together a dummy nursery with some other girls we had to show two activities and I just made bucket loads of cornflour! the tutuors comments were bex your activities were great and the fact that you yourself were playing with them when we walked in to look around was great! That must have been horrible for you getting that messy and my response was I BEG TO DIFFER I LOVED IT!!! X

dawn burns
Thu 6th Jan 11

I love all the ideas on here especially this one ,,thankyo lots of ideas for my stay n play x

linda
Sat 16th Jul 11

we use cornflour to make pictures using black paper get kids to drip cornflour on to paper then when dry remove the cornflour and you are left with great patterns

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