You can really squeeze out lots of kindergarten readiness learning and fun in today’s play-dough bug-making activity. Playing with playdough needs actions such as squeezing, smooshing, rolling, bending, and more. When playing with play-dough these are some of the learnings and skills developed:
- fine motor dexterity and strength; hand-eye coordination, visualizing,
- vocabulary and descriptive language, measuring, counting, pre-writing,
- sensory information such as shapes, texture, temperature, touch, size,
- problem-solving, planning, imagining and pretending,
In this photo, little hands are making bugs. Please note the following formula: 2 separate colors of playdough will become 2 colors of playdough mixed together. We talked about parts of bugs, names of bugs, where we find bugs, experiences with bugs, colors, sizes, and shapes of bugs. (Don’t adults supporting kids as they learn have wonderful topics for conversation?) What other kindergarten readiness can we squeeze out of play-dough?