Under The Sea Play Dough

Play dough is a great resource for to have in the house, it's wonderfully versatile and can help children develop skills in all areas of learning. As a Childminder I love that play dough is great for a wide range of ages, even when they are all up the table together each child is imaging some thing quite different going on. 

I use a basic no cook play dough recipe which lasts roughly a week in the fridge. Allowing your children to have the choice over the week to get the play dough out means that children are able to reinforce what they are learning through this play. 

Even little ones will love playing with play dough and watching the mark and changes they can make with their hands whilst developing their hand eye coordination, fine and gross motor skills. By now Tinnies imagination has started to develop and his has shown signs of play objects representing other things such as phones, he also enjoys small world play so I think this is a nice way to continues supporting his imagination, Tinnie is now 20 months old.

Meanwhile Little man had fun making different marks in the play dough using the shells and different sea animals. He played hiding the animal prints under shells and asking me to guess what animals had been asleep underneath the shells. 

To make your own under the sea play dough activity try adding items such as 

• Plastic sea animals, 
• Tin foil,
• Cabbage, 
• Large stones,
• Dried coral, 
• Shells

and let their imagination take them under the sea!