The Perfect City

Maths is all around us and is often involved in our children’s play without them knowing it. This play dough activity allows children to be creative but also get counting too.

Set Up

For this activity we took the grey playdough, buttons, wooden cubes, wood slices, felt balls, and wooden car stamper all from our March activity box. We also used some of the tissue paper and scrunched it into little balls.

F always loves playing with play dough and so they both were keen to start stamping the car shape onto the city play dough. M created her own road filled with cars and as she stamped we counted how many could be fitted in a line.

After they had finished stamping the cars they then got to work filling the city with trees, bushes and flowers. They were determined to use everything. We realised though that we didn’t have any houses or buildings yet so I asked them to create some using the wooden cubes. Could they make a house taller than the trees. They both started competing to create the biggest tower they could.