See recipe for homemade playdough.
- Roll the playdough into balls, snakes, and snails
- Poke and press things into playdough (uncooked spaghetti, feathers, straws, toothpicks, buttons, beads, googly eyes, pipe cleaners)
- Make prints in playdough using leaves, shells, lace, and textured rolling pins
- Practice cutting skills by using scissors to cut playdough
- Make playdough monsters
- Practice making letters, numbers, and shapes by rolling the playdough into snakes and then laying the snakes on top of letters, numbers, or shapes drawn on paper
Here’s a wonderful article explaining why playing with playdough is so important for developing skills in young children.