Colourful cous cous 

You need: 

1. Giant cous cous (The amount is dependent upon you but I like at least six bags) 

2. Three to four colours of paint (The colour choice is yours but red, blue and yellow is always nice) 

How to make it: 

1. Buy as much giant cous cous as you would like your child to play with. 

2. Separate the cous cous into fairly equal sized sections before placing a section at a time in a bowl and painting with your hand or by mixing with a spoon.  

How it can be used to support learning: 

1. Exploring texture 

2. Developing listening skills– Hide objects in the cous cous and  ask your child to find them when you give a symbolic and/or verbal cue 

3. Developing problem solving skills- Searching for particular colour/type/number of items 

4. Filling, emptying, pouring, pouring with accuracy 

5. More and less- Fill two cups with the cous cous and ask your child to identify which has more and which less/Show your child an amount of cous cous in a cup and ask them to fill another cup with more or less than you have in your cup 

6. One and lots- Asking your child to make groups of and identify which is one and lots from two containers of the cous cous