Playdough activities

There are many activities that you can do with playdough. You can use your imagination and create your own games.

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

• pounding, squashing and squeezing
• rolling balls between 2 hands
• rolling sausages using 2 hands - make sausages, worms, snakes, coil pots
• roll small balls between thumb, index and middle fingers
• make a pinch pot
• poke objects into the playdough
• hide objects like marbles and Lego in the playdough to be found by digging them out
• make playdough pizza and practice cutting with a knife and fork
• using scissors to make snips in the playdough
• use shape cutters and other accessories
• make letters and shapes out of long rolls of playdough to practice letter formation

There are also a number of structured playdough programmes that can be used such as Dough Gym and Dough Disco.