Sue Jennings - Creative Play with Children at Risk

Second edition published 2017

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First edition published by Speechmark Publishing 2005

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ISBN: 9781909301818 (pbk)

ISBN: 9781315174983 (ebk)

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Cover image and illustrations by Charlie Meyer

Cover image by Charlotte Meyer

Original drawings for diagrams, story sheets and worksheets by Chloe Gerhardt,
Suzanne Hall and Charlotte Meyer.

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The following recipes are reproduced with the kind permission of Marie Kesavan, Holy Trinity Kindergarten, Singapore.

For pictures of these recipes, see the resources page at www.playanddramapartnership.org

Home-made dough

1. Cloud dough: 3 cups of flour to 1 cup of oil.
2. Snow dough: 3 cups of corn flour to 1 cup of oil.
3. Sandy dough: 3 cups of baking soda to 1 cup of oil.
4. Snow sand: 3 cups of baking soda to 1 cup of water.
5. Oobleck: 2 cups of corn flour to 1 cup of water.
6. Fake snow: 2 cups of baking soda to 1 cup of hair conditioner or shampoo.
7. Stretchy dough: 3 cups of corn flour to 1 cup of hair conditioner or shampoo.
8. Flour dough: 2 cups of flour to one cup of hair conditioner or shampoo. (Note: a smoother texture is obtained by leaving the mixture to stand for half an hour.)
9. Kinetic sand: 2 cups of corn flour, 6 cups of sand, 1 teaspoon of liquid soap and half a cup of water.

Home-made paint

1. Bubble painting: mix liquid soap, food colouring and water.
2. Glass painting: mix white glue and food colouring.

Contents

There are several ways of observing a childs strengths and struggles. Many assessment techniques focus on what a child can do rather than what they are able to achieve. It is important to follow an enhancement model rather than a deficit model. This appendix describes two:

• the six-part story technique which is useful and easy to apply
• dramatic stages .