Is Homemade Playdough an Educational Toy?

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Is Homemade Playdough an Educational Toy?
Can homemade playdough be considered a learning
toy for toddlers and preschoolers? In my opinion
it is one of the best educational toys for
toddlers. Here's why
1. When making playdough with your child, he
is being exposed to early math skills. Measuring,
estimatingand numeral awareness are so important.
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for 2 year old. 2. Cooking the ingredients is
a lesson in science. Your little one will be
seeing cause and effect. She will be predicting
the outcome and asking so many questions why
does it thicken? Why do you need to heat it?
Mixing food coloring in the playdough offers
another experiment in science. How can you make
purple? How about green? 3. Following the
recipe models reading skills and following
instructions. It inspires patience and
perseverance. For more information click here.
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games for toddlers. These 3 reasons alone
makehomemade playdough one of the best
educational toys for toddlers. But any cooking
experience has these benefits. Does playdough
offer more? Yes! Multiple colors of playdough are
great for color recognition. Use plastic sorting
cups with the playdough and have your child match
the playdough to the cups. 4. Add a bit of
sand for tactile awareness or vanilla for the
scent. Have your child describe what he smells or
feels. 5. Playdough is great for practicing
fine motor skills. Kids will roll, stretch, pull
and press the dough with their fingers. This
helps develop strength and dexterity. They can
use cookie cutters, plastic knives, pizza cutters
and child
2
sized scissors to cut the playdough. A small
garlic press makes wonderful strings. 6.
Playdough is one of the best preschool learning
toys for early math skills. Roll the playdough
into balls and count them, then add and subtract.
Match the balls to numbers. Put the balls in
patterns and sequence. Make playdough snakes and
compare lengths kids will learn math terms like
shorter and longer. Use cookie cutters in
different shapes, such as triangle, square or
rectangle for geometric awareness. 7. Use the
play dough as a construction toys for toddlers.
Provide pipe cleaners, straws and Popsicle sticks
and watch your child create. 8. Playdough
fosters creativity and imaginative play. My son
used playdough to make outlines of roads for his
small toy cars. He would work hard on creating a
village this way. I never would have thought of
that. 9. Playdough is great for individual
play or cooperative play. Put out child sized
dishes and kids will soon be involved in pretend
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of my favourite preschool learning toys and
teaching toys for toddlers. It is inexpensive,
very versatile and provides so many play
opportunities. As a caution youngsters need to be
supervised so they are not tempted to taste the
salty dough.
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