Make your tired little play dough person go to sleep, with this sleepy or tired face play dough mat. Confused Face Playdough Mat

You can use home-made play dough, shop bought dough, modelling clay/plasticine, or any kind of dough. You don’t need anything other than the mats and the dough, but collecting a few accessories to go with the theme is loads of fun too. Language and social skills – including talking about what they are making with other children and adults, sharing ideas, sharing items etc.Play dough Mats can be used for learning, creative play, and even as a tool for writing. This set will help your kiddos get comfortable with understanding and naming their different feelings. Helping Children Understand Emotions You can cover your entire face with a play dough skin as Maia did above or just add your facial features directly to the bowl.

This tactile hands on learning is often a lot more effective than teaching with a standard worksheet with young children, and a whole lot of fun! Learning About Emotions Playdough Mats Choosing an open-ended playdough mat inspires creativity and imagination. They allow children to express their ideas and knowledge in any way they like, and encourages creative thinking, problem solving and ingenuity.The aim of our open-ended play dough mats is to spark a child’s interest and creativity, without totally directing their play. They are a starting point, designed to invite kids to play and explore. There are no right or wrong way to use these mats, so if Santa wears green shorts and the snail has wings, that’s totally ok! Let your kids be creative! They are full of blank faces, empty plates, bare gardens, and more, just waiting to be filled with anything you can imagine! Why would you choose an open-ended playdough mat? A couple of pots of Play dough – different colours if you have them but not essential. You can make this yourself or use shop bought play dough – we won’t judge! Squeezing and squishing the play dough is an easy way to strengthen their little hand muscles all while having fun.

yarn for hair - lip cutters - novelty glasses - scissors, pens and paper - Mr Potato Head accessories What makes you feel scared, and what do you do when you feel scared? What helps you feel better again? Play dough is one of the most popular and age old activities for children all ages. This fun, activity reinforces body part vocabulary and allows your child to explore some emotions in a multisensory learning experience. Then I invited my children to come see what I had set up. They immediately knew what to do and were very happy to get started.The goal is not for kids to make a perfect face, but rather, to learn about facial features, exercise creativity and imagination and develop fine motor skills. While making faces on these play dough mats, young children will develop the following skills will develop their fine motor muscles while learning about the human body – more specifically, the face. It also gives kids a chance to be creative, and make something with their hands, as well as being a great sensory experience. Choose your favorite color and roll and squish the dough to make all kinds of shapes.

Less than a year from the time it was first sold as an off-white modelling compound, Play-Doh eventually branched out to multiple colours. It continues to expand and evolve into the rainbow modelling toy that we know and love. Play-Doh Is Safe for Children (and Adults too) Here are our family’s play dough faces, mostly finished. See the play dough flower in the hair of the play dough person on the left? Maia came up with a special technique for making those with a garlic press. Gross motor skills – using the larger muscles of the upper arm which are also important for fine motor development and writing. They each grabbed play dough and began adding facial features to the heads. My 5-year-old was very detailed and remembered to add things like the pupil of an eye, eyebrows and eyelashes.

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Rather than taking about emotions in an abstract way only, let them get involved with their hands and make something that they can see and touch. These are a few topics to explore while making some scared faces together with your playdough. Worried Face Playdough Mat What does a worried face look like, and how do you create that shape from play dough? What kind of things make you feel worried? Silly Face Playdough Mat