Playdough is a favorite with about kids. There is simply and then much to practise with it! Squish it, mix it, and in that location are and then many playdough games.

Here is a great project to go along kids entertained with playdough as they make animals using playdough and other crafting items.  Kids Activities Blog hopes your little one (and yous) enjoy this fun indoor activity.

Kids love being creative as they make animals from playdough. Great kids activity!

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Our preschool  lesson themes are based on books and topics that Bear {iv yrs} has chosen to make certain that he is interested and invested in learning.   His latest option was jungle animals.

Due to the freezing weather outside, nosotros can't go to the zoo to run across animals that reside in the jungle.   So, nosotros decided to bosom out the Playdough and make our own!

At present, this arts and crafts works well with store bought playdough or you tin brand your ain. We have a super unproblematic playdough recipe that doesn't accept a lot of supplies or try to make.

Here are all the supplies you need to make playdough animals. Playdough, pom poms, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and string or twine laid out on a baking sheet to keep everything together.
Continue all your playdough animate being creating supplies together using a baking sheet. It is a great fashion to avert a mess!

Time To Make Playdough Animals

The materials we used were:

  • Tan, orange, and blackness Playdough
  • Twine
  • Orangish, yellow, white, brown, and black arts and crafts pom poms
  • Different-sized google eyes
  • Animal print pipe cleaners

To gear up our preschool activities, I have started using a method that I saw on The Iowa Farmer'southward Married woman.   I have been placing them on inexpensive baking sheets from the dollar store.

Non only do they help keep small items from rolling off of the table, they also allow me to group materials in a way that is appealing and inviting to my little learner.

Information technology'southward rare that I actually do my own projects alongside Bear because he tries to imitate me and gets frustrated.   Commonly I just watch, comment, and ask questions.  Merely this activity was just besides much for me to refuse and nosotros each did our ain affair.

Now we can begin crafting our playdough animals by creating a head and body. We can also add googly eyes, paint it with a paintbrush, and add a pipe cleaner tail!
It'due south time to create a playdough creature. Give it some optics, a torso, and don't forget its tail!

Hours of Indoor Fun

Rolling out the dough into balls, cutting the pipe cleaners, and manipulating the small eyes gave Deport some skillful small motor exercise and a sensory experience all rolled into one.

This is one of those activities that it is okay to have your time and doesn't make a huge mess and is perfect for hours of fun inside, especially with the colder weather coming.

After we were done with our jungle animal Playdough creations, Carry and I gave them fun names.   He named his Cat-erfly  because it was a cat that could fly {do you see the wings?}   We worked together to name mine the Sniffer-ger  because it had a huge nose and a tiger print tail.

Making playdough animals is so much fun for the whole family. We both made cats and both are super cute and unique!
The playdough animals nosotros fabricated were cats! His is cat-erfly and mine is sniffer-ger.

A slap-up literacy extension for this activity would exist for your footling learner to characterize or write their ain story about their created animals to include: how they live, what they eat, their habitats, etc.

Perchance yous could even pair information technology up with some other activities or books. This would get great with these other Pete the Cat activities.

More Mashy Kids Activities

If you liked this playdough activity then you'll love these other playdough crafts as well.

We can teach your how to make your very ain playdough toys. While that craft is cool take it a footstep farther and try out this tasty edible gluten free playdough!

Yous can likewise be festive! If you're like me and dear essential oils and so this Christmas craft is perfect. Y'all tin use peppermint oil to create your own processed cane playdough!

Andie Jaye is a former preschool teacher turned SAHM of two kiddos. Her weblog, Crayon Freckles, is an eclectic mix of play, fine art, and learning activities. Mingled in are her perspectives on beingness a crunchy momma, having a long-haired hippy boy and using follow-your-gut parenting. Encounter more of Andie on Crayon Freckles' Facebook page, on Pinterest or on her parenting teens site Why Does My Teen?