Indoor Malleable Area

An effective ‘ Indoor Malleable Area’ would include many features. This should:

• Provide children with a variety of opportunities to use fingers, hands and even feet to explore textures
• House a variety of tools and equipment to explore a range of malleable materials. This could include cutters, rollers, sticks and squeezers.
• Offer a variety of malleable materials such as playdough, clay, jelly and cooked pulses
• Include resources which are clearly labelled and accessible to all children
• Be transferable to learning areas as appropriate. For example, having playdough in the role-play area  and clay with  construction areas
• Make use of builder’s trays to house some malleable materials. For example, jelly, cornflour and cooked pasta
• Provide opportunities to bake and cook
• Modelled and discussed by adults as and where necessary
• Enhanced according to children’s interests, possible themes and on-going observations.

Creating an Area for Play Dough and Other Malleable Materials Grasby  All Saints C of E Primary School	Useful Tools to use with Malleable Materials See Saw Day Nursery, Boston
Exploring the Texture and Movement of Ice Sleaford New Life Pre-School	Exploring Textures Seasiders Day Nursery, Skegness
Exploring Jelly Lilliput Day Nursery, Boston