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Playdough encourages creative and open-ended play experiences that are fun and engaging! Curious about innovative and interesting ways to enhance your child's playdough experience? Read on to find out!
1. Add loose parts
Incorporating loose parts, such as buttons, pebbles, sticks, bottle caps, beads, and straws stimulates children's imagination, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Open-ended materials like loose parts promote child-directed, reversible play experiences. Since loose parts have no shelf life, children are encouraged to use the same materials for a variety of function over a period of time. In this process, the children often engage in thought processes like "What else can I use this material for?"
2. Making letters and numbers with playdough
This activity helps to introduce and reinforce the formation of letters and numbers. The children learn to understand how each letter and number looks like and while forming them, they observe the lines and curves that are present.
This activity helps to introduce and reinforce the formation of letters and numbers. The children learn to understand how each letter and number looks like and while forming them, they observe the lines and curves that are present.
3. Cutting playdough
Play dough is the perfect medium to introduce the use of scissors to children! It creates less mess (than paper), as the children can just combine the playdough pieces back together or make something new with them! Cutting allows children to practise hand-eye coordination, muscle control, and finger dexterity.
Play dough is the perfect medium to introduce the use of scissors to children! It creates less mess (than paper), as the children can just combine the playdough pieces back together or make something new with them! Cutting allows children to practise hand-eye coordination, muscle control, and finger dexterity.
4. Print-making
Think about an art experience - but without using paper and paint, just playdough and any objects (e.g. lego block, leaf) you can find! Playdough a sustainable medium for endless creations, just press and knead the previous print away to make a new one! In this activity, the children also learn about cause and effect as they experiment with the relationship between the appearance of the print and the amount of force they use. (i.e. The harder they press, the deeper/more obvious the print will be)
Think about an art experience - but without using paper and paint, just playdough and any objects (e.g. lego block, leaf) you can find! Playdough a sustainable medium for endless creations, just press and knead the previous print away to make a new one! In this activity, the children also learn about cause and effect as they experiment with the relationship between the appearance of the print and the amount of force they use. (i.e. The harder they press, the deeper/more obvious the print will be)
5. Pretend play
Children can make anything out of playdough and this means that there are endless opportunities for pretend-play experiences! Want to set up a bakery? Let's make cupcakes, bread, and cookies! How about an animal kingdom? Let's make our favourite animals! Learning experiences like this encourage imagination and language development as children talk about their ideas and take control of their own play.
Make your own cost-effective and child-friendly play dough using our recipe!
Children can make anything out of playdough and this means that there are endless opportunities for pretend-play experiences! Want to set up a bakery? Let's make cupcakes, bread, and cookies! How about an animal kingdom? Let's make our favourite animals! Learning experiences like this encourage imagination and language development as children talk about their ideas and take control of their own play.
Make your own cost-effective and child-friendly play dough using our recipe!
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