Homemade Playdough Kneading Station
Making edible or non-toxic playdough from scratch and utilizing it for simple manipulation tasks like rolling, squishing, and cutting shapes, introducing material composition.
- Takes
- 1 hr
- Your setup
- 15 min prep
- Ages
- Ages 2–3
- Mess
- Some mess
- Cost
- $
- Where
- Indoors
How to do it
- 1Mix the playdough ingredients (adults handle heat if cooking dough). Allow the toddler to help stir the dry ingredients.
- 2Once cooled, place the dough on placemats.
- 3Model how to roll the dough flat and use the cookie cutters.
- 4Encourage squishing and pounding the dough to release energy and strengthen hand muscles.
- 5Practice naming the shapes they create.
What they're practising
- Fine Motor Strengthening
- Texture Manipulation
- Creativity
- Early Science (material change)