Create a Kids Play World with Cotton Balls

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We're a bit crazy for cotton ball craft and activities at the moment having done our cotton ball throw painting and our spiders web game, this time we created our own play land using cottons balls.

The small lay world that we created is hard and can be lifted in one piece.  We made it by covering each cotton ball with a paste made of flour, water and food colouring.  The paste then hardens and binds the cotton balls together.

The boys and I discussed what we wanted the world to look like.  I placed a sheet of baking paper in a large roasting tin and we drew out a mountain, river and beach.  The boys wanted the mountain to be lava covered.

Then it got a bit messy!  Each cotton ball needs covering in the paste and this is easiest done by hand - not many photos as I was busy controlling the mess!

Here's our work in progress.  The beach in yellow, river in blue and the beginnings of our mountain.

This is the finished product, I had to help a bit to get it all finished, but the boys especially enjoyed creating the lava flow.  I then left our cotton ball world to dry for a couple of days.

 The boys decided that this play world was just perfect for their dinosaurs.

Here it is in action.

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