Wednesday, 6 March 2013

What Can We Do With Play Dough?

Here's some ideas to make play dough time more interesting for children:

- Make impressions in the dough with things from around your home.garden, or things you have collected on    walks (shells,leaves, sticks, plastic animals,cars, barbie shoes).

-Push small items into the play dough to create faces ( buttons,paper clips, popsicle sticks, googly eyes).


- Use Mr. Potato Head pieces to make play dough people.


-Add children's safety scissors so the children cut the play dough.


-Create a bakery by making cupcakes, birthday cakes, cinnamon buns, cookies, bread. Add cake decorations, muffin cups, rolling pins, bowls, spoons, plastic knives, small cookie sheets, spatulas, cookie cutters,potato masher, etc....


-Create a restaurant by making pizza, hot dogs, chicken nuggets, fries.


-Flatten dough and roll cars and trucks in it to make tire tracks.


-Roll snakes and balls and use them to shape letters.


-Sculpt animals-add feathers,eyes, fur, etc...


-Put fresh play dough in a syringe or icing bag and let children squeeze it out.


-Mix different combinations of colored play dough to make new colors. 

 Red + Blue = Purple, Yellow + Blue = Green, Red + Yellow = Orange
 Then mix all the colors together!

-Use small plastic animal toys (available at the dollar store) and let the child make different kinds of caves  and homes for the animals to live in.


-Make ornaments. Bake at 200 degrees for 5 minutes so they will harden and preserve.


Source: Play Dough, Painting, and Prop Boxes Workshop by Krista Anderson

No comments:

Post a Comment