Tuesday Toddler Tactic: Bring on the play dough! Squeezing and pounding play dough can calm the most restless child and help their focus It’s great too for strengthening little fingers ready for gripping pencils and writing. Whether you make your own playdough or keep a handy stash of the ready made stuff, it can be disheartening to set up the dough and find your kids play for a few minutes then walk away. The secret to extending play with dough (and buying a bit more ‘me’ time) , is to encourage creativity through props: pipe cleaners, feathers and ‘googly eyes’ can be used to make play dough monsters; little kids can decorate play dough ‘cakes’ with dried pasta, coloured icy pole sticks and shells; bring in the ‘little people’ to live in a play dough village of hills and houses or add some pretties – sparkly baubles, beads and buttons to decorate dough creations. For more fun tactics to make magic from mayhem, check out Pinkys book Toddler Tactics. shopwithpinky/toddler-tactics-by-pinky-mckay
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:30:00 +0000
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