Silly Putty Stretch!

The Oak Room has featured Silly Putty at the texture table for a few weeks now and the students cannot get enough of it! The students explore the silly putty using many different manipulations such as rolling, stretching, flattening, and molding it into shapes.

 Above, Chloe flattened her silly putty and pressed her palm into it to make a hand mold. "Look, you can see my hand in it!" she said.

 Haley stretched her silly putty out to see how far it could go until it would break in half. "This is so stretchy, it won't break for a long time," Haley noticed.

 Wesley used two hands to roll the silly putty into cylindrical shapes. "I am making a long snake and then I am going to make a spider web."

The children are allowed to explore their creativity, practice their fine motor skills, and experience new textures when they spend their time playing with silly putty in the Oak Room!

Have a great weekend and we will see you all on Monday!
-Miss Nolan

Teaching Strategies Gold Objective 7a: Demonstrates fine motor strength and coordination; Uses fingers and hands