Playing with Play-Doh!

Playing with clay or Play-Doh is a natural outlet through which children can express their emotions and creativity. While working with others,
they are expressing cooperation with one another and creating together.

According to sixtysecondparent.com some of the benefits of Play-dough are:

The benefits of play-dough

• Helps to strengthen little fingers, hands and wrists.
• It's fun.
• It is an open-ended toy - play-dough can be anything - food, animals, bowls, shapes etc.
• It helps to foster your child's imagination.
• It helps children develop self esteem -there is no right or wrong and the child has the opportunity to gain mastery over their environment.
• It is a great release for tension or angry feelings - squeezing, punching, poking are all acceptable if done to playdough.

This fun activity is an open-ended tactile learning experience. Children get a lot of manipulative practice as they squeeze, roll, pinch, cut, shape and pound away. As children play with the Play-Doh, they gain control over hand and arm movements which improves coordination. Play-Doh can be used to review so many learning concepts; letters, numbers, combining, fractions, colors, shapes, etc. These are just a few skills you can review at home with your children while "playing" with Play-Doh!