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Play Dough
A Fun Learning Game




Play Dough is a fun learning game, its lovely to squish and squeeze and fun to model.

Your child can use it from about two years old, but make sure it doesn’t get eaten!

Play Dough is a soft, squeegee material that can keep your child occupied for a considerable length of time, it is available to buy under several brand names including Play-Doh and Tutti Frutti. Making your own however is much cheaper, and leaves you with extra money to spend on some of those fantastic sculpting devices.

Non-toxic, brightly coloured and easily sculpted play dough makes an ideal tool for creative play.

For a young child, crafts and other artistic activities are great for confidence building and self-expression. Play Dough is a great fun learning game! Play Dough is very quick and easy to make, it is a brilliant way for children to learn about weights, measurements and the way materials change.

Here Are Some Simple Play Dough Recipes

Play Dough Recipe

Salt Dough Recipe

Using Play Dough is a fun learning game that can help your child develop and learn some important skills.

Counting Skills, Attention to Detail and Teamwork



Before you start make sure you have everything you need to have fun with Play Dough, creating a pleasant work area for your child will make it easier to set up, quickly and easily. Make sure the area is prepared for spills and splashes, so that he can just enjoy the experience.



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Play Dough Things To Do


Wiggly Snakes

Roll sections of dough on a board to make a long sausage. Press two holes at one end for eyes and bend your ‘snake’ into a wiggly shape

Shapes And Patterns

To press out shapes from a piece of rolled out dough, use upturned plastic beakers, egg cups, food storage boxes or you can buy a range of shape cutters. You can make simple patterns, such as circles, squares and triangles, which will help your child to learn about shapes. You could also make your own fun learning game of shapes and colours that is low in cost and high in fun.

Color Change

Mix different colours of dough together to make new colours. Red and yellow make orange. Red and blue make purple and blue and yellow make green. A great way to have fun and tech your child about colour.

Prints

Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough into a large flat circle, and then get your child to press his hands on it to make a print. You could do your hand to and talk about whose hand is bigger, whose hand is smaller. Then bake and keep forever.

Best of all having your child’s masterpieces around the house will show him how proud you are of his work and give him confidence.

Take a look at our main toddlers page for some more Great ideas for educational games for toddlers




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