We’ve recently learned that the letter S makes the “ssss” sound like a slithering snake. To reinforce this new letter sound, we made snakes for snack…
For this simple baking activity, you will need a couple of tubes of refrigerated pizza dough…
Each child had the opportunity to make his or her own snakes.  The children began this activity with a small portion of pizza dough. They rolled their dough out onto clean trays…
If you’ve never given your children the opportunity to play in real dough, you might consider giving it a try. The texture of bread dough is quite a bit different than that of a nice, smooth play dough. The texture is dense and more elastic…
Because our pizza dough was a bit more tough to work with than a typical play dough, rolling it out was quite a chore for many of our children. Â Â Some of our students found it quite difficult to firmly roll the dough with the palm of their hands to make it long and skinny like a snake…
Instead, many of the children found it easier to pinch off small pieces of dough. The result was lots of little snake eggs…
Working with pizza dough in preschool is a great way to promote hand strength. All of the rolling and squeezing and pinching of the dough strengthens the muscles in little hands, creating fine motor skills that will eventually help children develop the strength to grasp a pencil appropriately…
Once the children were finished with their pizza dough creations, they placed them on a cookie sheet…
While the children were busy playing, the snakes were baking in the oven. Deborah took the liberty of adding a licorice tongue and eyes made out of icing to each of our snakes…
We served our snakes with a little bit of butter, cinnamon, and sugar. The children all deemed them to be quite delicious. Who knew snakes could taste so good? And lets not forget about the eggs…
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Links to grow on:
Count a mouse story telling props and game by Teach Preschool
Shape snake craft by No Time for Flashcards
Who said there was no snake in Ireland by My Montessori Preschool