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Pretend, Create & Learn with Play Dough

Play dough will never be boring again!

I now have no excuse to not break out the play dough [and neither do you]!

Whether we want to learn, create or play pretend. 

There’s 34 ways to play with play doughto choose from.

 

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pretend with playdough :
play dough activities
Teach Preschool
play dough activities
Beansprouts Preschool Blog
play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities
The Imagination Tree
play dough activities
 Pre-school Play
play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities
The Chocolate Muffin Tree
play dough activities
Heidi’s Recipes
play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities
The Imagination Tree
Imagination Soup
play dough activities
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create with play dough :
play dough activities
play dough activities
Pink and Green Mama
play dough activities
hands on : as we grow
play dough layered art
play dough activities
play dough activities
Getting Messy with Ms Jessi
play dough activities
The Chocolate Muffin Tree
play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities
Inspiration Sounds Creativity Abounds

play dough activities
Snails:
Squashed Tomatoes

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play dough robot
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Counting Coconuts

 

play dough activities
Bird’s Nest:
Quirky Momma

play dough activities
play dough paper doll dressup   play dough activities

Inspiration Sounds Creativity Abounds

play dough activities
Chocolate Candy:
The Imagination Tree

play dough activities
play dough mosaic art
play dough activities
Putti Prapancha

play dough activities
Mr Play Dough Face:
No Time for Flash Cards

play dough activities

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add to play dough :
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Having Fun at Home

play dough activities
Paper Umbrellas:
Crayon Freckles

play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities
NurtureStore

play dough activities
Toothpicks:
Play-Based Classroom

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play dough activities   play dough activities

Let the Children Play

play dough activities
Popsicle Sticks
& Googly Eyes:
Playing House

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learn with play dough : 
play dough activities
play dough activities
4 Kids, 2 Guinea Pigs,
One Happy Family
play dough activities
Tot School
play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities
Color Mixing
to Make a Rainbow:
Art for Little Hands
A Mom with a Lesson Plan
play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities
Spell Sight Words:
Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
  play dough activities
Stamp Words
Fun Frugal Mommy
play dough activities
play dough activities
play dough activities  
hands on : as we grow
play dough activities
Quirky Momma
play dough activities

[I've found that homemade play dough is far superior to the store bought kind. Its softer, lasts longer and you can make whatever color you like just for that day. Not to mention adding fun ingredients to the mix!]

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What’s your favorite way to play
with play dough in your house?

More collections of play ideas!

About Jamie Reimer

Jamie is a baker's wife and stay at home mom of three boys. Jamie began hands on : as we grow as a New Year's Resolution to do hands on kids activities with Henry when he was 2.5 years old. Read more about Jamie and her family. Follow Jamie on and Pinterest!

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  1. Art For Little Hands says:

    love love love this post. I sent my two older kids to school today. I am definitely making some play dough for me and the two year old to enjoy today! Thanks for all the inspiration.

  2. Kate @ Puddles and Gumboots says:

    Really great play-dough wrap up. Every inspiration you need to break out the play-dough

  3. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says:

    Fantastic round up, as usual! Thanks for including mine!

  4. Melissa Taylor says:

    you were busy putting this all together! Amazing lady!!!

  5. Wonderful collection of ideas. I love play dough – and now I love it more.

  6. Mommy Cameron @ Learning with the Cameron Clan says:

    I love it! A lot of great ideas. My boys love to use cookie cutters in our play dough.

  7. Thanks for including play dough under construction – adding tools to playdough makes such a fun experience! Off to check out all the other ideas too!

  8. Beansprouts says:

    Thanks Jamie…I'm definitely bookmarking this post!!!

  9. Julia Deering says:

    Great ideas for play dough play here. We made Disco Dough a few weeks ago – and my four year old worked the glitter into the still warm dough. Glorious stuff. Here's what she did with it if you fancy a quick look:-

    http://home-adventurer.blogspot.com/2011/08/disco-dough.html

  10. Betti Buza says:

    My kids love making hedgehogs with playdough + toothpicks and we quite often use cookie-cutters, too. We use playdough to learn English as a second language at home, too. Here you can see how we learnt "Hey Diddle Diddle" with the help of playdough:
    http://www.bebeangol.hu/node/219

  11. don't forget electric circuits! http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/

    had so much fun exploring these with my preschoolers.

  12. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says:

    Thanks for featuring some ideas of mine! You make the greatest lists! Yay for play dough! This will be good to repost again for the Winter when everyone is cooped up in their house!

  13. Play-based Classroom says:

    You're amazing! Thank you for this list! And thanks for featuring our playdough and toothpicks post! :)

  14. What an inspiring list of ideas! Thanks so much for letting me link up to this fabulous post in my blog.

    Feel free to pop by if you have a minute.
    http://createwithyourhands.blogspot.com/2011/09/play-dough-happy-birthday-cake.html

  15. Thanks for leaving such a lovely comment on my blog – play dough is so great isn't it? Thanks also for hosting It's Playtime, it fab, I love it!

  16. Thanks for featuring my dirt play dough! Can't wait to check out all of the other dough posts. The possibilities are endless!

  17. Anonymous says:

    Great! Thanks for sharing!

  18. Anonymous says:

    Love all the ideas… wish I had seen this before,but in the end it worked out great. I kinda did the reverse last time we had playdough out, no accessories, no color mixing, no tools of any kind… Day one "where are the cookie cutters?" all they did is make "pancakes" by smushing the dough flat. day 2 can we have scissors… mix colors… take it to the kitchen… and so it went. However I noticed each day the children got better with their hands, making coils/ snakes, balls and even modeling real life items, one child made a helicopter, blades and all. There was talk about all kinds of stuff while they simply manipulated the dough, kinda theraputic, keeping hands busy with out a goal, and brains free to think. On the last day I gave in and got out the cookie cutters and poof all creativity turned to "I had that one first"
    I have to try some of the posted ideas, Spaghetti for sure. Thanks for getting me thinking again about this old stand-by

  19. play dough is a regular part of our weeks & has been for 4 years. I love your lists of posts here http://www.bylisajay.com/create-play/

  20. Thanks for the link! I love this collection and love seeing all these Play-Doh ideas!

  21. These are fantastic ideas! Wow, thanks for sharing these. I found this post via Pinterest. I also shared it on my blog today.

    http://www.notyouraveragemommy.com/2012/03/play-dough-fun.html

    Can’t wait to play play dough with some of these ideas!
    Thanks again,
    Jess

  22. I love this list…thanks my kids love playdough…one we do that their great uncle actually taught them is playdough jewellery—my little girl Liberty loves her playdough rings, watches, anklets, earrings, and ponytail holders–(over the already existing elastics of course)..she feels like such a princess when she is all done…my son likes to make the funny mustaches, bears, eye brows, nose rings (like Melvin when he became the witch doctor in madagascar), glasses etc…human pototo head….but I love alot of yours to add to our small list of things to do with playdough…

  23. You have some excellent ideas here, I really appreciate all your effort.
    This has given me some fresh ideas for my site, thank you.

  24. Pamela Lindsey says:

    As a preschool teacher I love getting new ideas to enhance my sensory center. Thanks!