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1/27/2016

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1) Discuss some playdough activities you have planned in the past. What were the most successful activities and what made them so successful?

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Desiree
6/5/2018 01:33:33 pm

While learning about birds with my 4-5 year olds, I laid out pictures of birds and put play dough out without direction, hoping for my children to attempt to make their own birds. As soon as one child did, the idea took off and everybody made birds!

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Maryam
6/13/2018 08:04:49 pm

Children love making play dough, mixing colors, and making different shapes, letters, and numbers.

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Melina
6/15/2018 11:30:47 am

I've taught preK, preschool, toddler, and infant. They all love play dough. In preK I took our letter of the week and had them do letter cutouts in dough, and I've done the same in preschool. Toddlers are all about the feel and tough of everything. When I'd make play dough, I would add different textures. I could make it grainy or extra gooy, they still loved it.

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Destin Kawaka
6/27/2018 03:07:58 pm

Im an assistant at a family home childcare and I actually had the kids simply build and Crete whatever came to mind. They enjoyed it a lot because of the assortments of colors of play dough and loved feeling it in their hands.

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Hae Lim
6/29/2018 04:39:47 pm

We had the students create a planet by rolling a blue playdoh ball and adding chunks of clays to make continents.

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Denisse Peralta
7/9/2018 03:24:28 pm

I let them do what ever came to there mind and they had a lot of doing all sorts of shapes and using a lot of colors

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Kyla
7/31/2018 01:20:53 pm

In our classroom we'll make blocks and sphere and cones with little toys like a hot wheels or a plastic bug in each. Sometimes we'll put multiple toys into the playdough. The children love to go digging for treasure!

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Angelica Sanchez
8/1/2018 09:02:08 am

We allow the children to do their own thing, use their imagination.

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Rosemarie Navarrete
8/1/2018 09:05:58 am

in our center we have open play dou area that the children can go and play and use their imagination

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Kavitha
8/5/2018 06:33:43 pm

We give the kids play dough and some tools like rolling pin, cutting, some shapes, numbers and let them decide what they want to make with it. It is interesting to watch them come up with their imaginations.

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Debra Barrett
8/10/2018 05:55:37 pm

we were learning about insects made insect impressions in our playdough.

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Mattie
8/13/2018 05:14:38 pm

Playdough activities at my center are very often. What makes them so successful are when I let the kids bring their own animal toys into the play so they have the ability to use their imagination.

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Christine Kim
8/20/2018 09:27:53 pm

One playdough activites we did in our class, was first showing varies abstract paintings. In the painting they have many identifiable pictures in them. We have simply asked on what they see and let them discuss among themselves. Then we got into groups and asked them to make whatever that comes to mind after seeing the paintings. The paintings were laid out for the children to see.

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Ellie
8/26/2018 04:15:27 pm

We make new playdough every month and choose a color related to the monthly theme and have added glitter and scents. The kids favorite activities are cutting it with playdough scissors and making animals, food and shapes.

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Emily
8/27/2018 04:17:25 pm

Our kids like to cut out different shapes. We also like to let them do whatever and make whatever comes to mind and let them use their imaginations.


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carolyn
8/28/2018 08:35:25 am

I live in the Seattle area and one year we made the space needle. It was pretty fun.

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Xiaowei Chen
9/8/2018 08:26:19 pm

In my classroom, kids use playdough to make fruits, shapes , animals etc. They are very creative and all like to play playdough. Because playdough are not limitted to certain age group, it is easy to play.

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Afton
9/20/2018 10:03:12 am

We use play dough in many ways in our classroom, a lot of it is to work on fine motor and muscle memory and building. One of our favorite ways to work with play dough is in the making of it and how we use math language to do so, and then using it to make various shapes while learning color mixing at the same time.

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Loubna Madani
9/25/2018 05:06:30 pm

We use a lot of playdough in the class, it is a good way to engage the children in creative thinking and fine motor skills. there are many playdough molds that the children have to use.

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Breanna
9/25/2018 06:29:28 pm

My preschoolers absolutely love play-dough and it's played with on the daily. We love pretending its pizza dough. So we flatten out our dough, count out load as we cut the "pizza" into slices, talk about the toppings we're putting on the pizza, and then we pass out the slices and talk about how delicious it is. The kids have a blast with that.

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Jacqui
9/28/2018 06:16:39 pm

My preschoolers love making play dough as well as playing with it. We incorporate it with every topic we can. This past week we made apple trees because of the fall season. The kids counted, identified colors, and even measured their trees. We love it!

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Macy
10/5/2018 05:48:48 pm

We use playdough as a Friday wind-down activity before going to lunch, and nap.

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Lara
10/10/2018 11:08:10 am

Our preschoolers have a lot of fun creating many things with play dough. animals, different foods, shapes, letters, numbers, etc... Its a great way for them to express what they have learned or are learning about.

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Colby
10/18/2018 08:21:42 pm

We incorporated the making of play dough with our daycare kids,even the youngest ones enjoyed the process! They loved the process and measuring tools, also the blended colors.

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Melissa Junker
10/27/2018 11:33:08 am

Putting out different tool and manipulatives that aren't necessarily intended to go with Play-Doh. It allows the kids to be creative!

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Nancy Madrigal
11/4/2018 09:43:57 am

We incorporate a lot of free play, I think the part the children enjoy the most is making it and mixing all the ingredient's. Video's have given me many new ideas to make play doh time more fun.

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Elizabeth
11/7/2018 06:53:52 pm

Adding playdough to dramatic play oven. Using cookie cutters and rollings pins and baking pans it allowed the children to explore baking cookies, cakes, and etc.

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GIANINA KEYS
11/10/2018 02:17:18 pm

The kids in my class love play dough! especially using cookie cutters to cut it into fun shapes!

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Gianina Keys
11/10/2018 03:19:46 pm

In my classroom, we have cookie cutters and rolling pins! The kids love them!

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Olga Dyakonov
11/11/2018 08:17:01 pm

We love use play dough . The kids counted, identified colors, and even measured...

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Ailing
11/12/2018 03:10:37 pm

The kids love making pizza and cookies at our prechool .They use cookies cutters to cut them and put them on the plates ,then bake them.They got a lot of fun.

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Tanya
11/23/2018 08:09:16 pm

Our preschoolers like to make apple pie or pumpkin pie with play dough , pumpkin seeds and sliced apples

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Eun link
11/25/2018 03:59:55 pm

I made the alphabet with children. The children in my class were very excited.

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Amber
11/26/2018 01:31:05 pm

I work with infants and todd!ers. Most of our playdough activities are related to colors. I've found that offering too many colors is too stimulating. So we try to focus one two or sometimes three colors at a time.

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Tatiana Polyakova
11/26/2018 02:12:49 pm

Our kids like to make apple pie or pumpkin pie with playgough, apple slices, and pumpkin seeds

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Jessica
11/27/2018 02:28:45 pm

We use play dough with tools (cookie cutters, pizza style cutters, rolling pins), sometimes we roll out shapes & identify them, other times we’ve used letter stampers to practice spelling children’s names in the dough and to identify letter names. My daughter also discovered that she could make impressions into the dough by placing it over the “lifetime” symbol on the table.

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Carol
11/28/2018 02:02:03 am

We let children use their own imagination.

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Chloe
12/5/2018 08:47:02 pm

I am a Pre-K teacher and I like to make playdough with my class every week, the children love to help measure the ingredients and make the playdough. I think the students being involved in the making of the playdough makes it so successful because it is getting them engaged.

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Marjorie hamrick
12/7/2018 01:32:01 pm

When we played with play dough, we started with plain white dough, and the kids added their own colors. so they learned primary colors,and how to make secondary colors. Their favorite thing was making it tie-dye. After that they used tried to make all their are look like "tie-dye" .

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Elaina
12/12/2018 06:47:47 pm

In the past I have had our 4 year olds make certain shapes with the color I tell them to make that shape with and test there ability to know shapes and colors while having fun with playdough.

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Tim
12/13/2018 11:42:37 am

I use playdough as an open-ended, sensory activity. The kids love to squish, cut, mash, bend, roll and pinch the dough into any shape or object they see fit.

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Drew
12/15/2018 10:47:15 am

Play dough has always been a popular activity in our classroom as well a staple for various go-to provocations. We often use play dough in several steps. The first step is creating the play dough in which we invite the children to not only help us make the dough, but give suggestions as to the color or colors of the dough we will make. Then we often provide the dough with various tools, toys, and classroom implements in order to foster, not only fine motor development, but creativity and resourcefulness. We then make sure to rotate out the various play dough instruments and provide the dough for repeated use over the course of about a week. One of my favorite activities (and I believe one of the most successful) was an activity in which I provided play dough in the three primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) and invited the children to mix them in or to discover what colors they could make. The children made the expected secondary colors of green, orange, and purple, but also discover colors such as teal, chartreuse, and even fuchsia. In the end, however, we predictably ended up with a pale brown, but learning is often about the journey and not the destination.

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Andrey Dyakonov
12/19/2018 10:07:38 am

Our kids like to cut out different shapes. We also like to let them use their imaginations.We use play dough two time a week . We make many items, shapes, learn colors...

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Mitch
12/19/2018 01:37:11 pm

I'm a Montessori PE teacher but there are times I need to sub in the classroom. The students seem to enjoy working with the play dough a lot. I'll sit down and observe their work, often I might make a suggestion or mold something like a apple or hotdog to spark a new direction if the child seems uninterested or at a loss with what to do with the job.

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Yana
12/26/2018 06:16:29 pm

What I found that kids love most is mixing colors and and creating different shapes. Using other tools to cut the dough and cut with shape cutters.

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Misaki
12/27/2018 09:18:44 am

I used colorful fresh vegetable juices as food color. Such as beets, spinach. Our kids experienced to make their own play dough. They enjoyed the dough's texture.

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Pati
12/27/2018 09:25:25 am

Playdo is a great way to teach children about colors and shapes

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B Profit
12/27/2018 01:31:39 pm

I love putting out natural materials like stones, sticks and leaves with playdough. It is fun to see what they will create

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Anzhelika
12/28/2018 11:48:56 am

When learning letters, we incorporated play dough and made letters. Kids had fun and stayed focused.

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Rahele Shishegaran
12/30/2018 12:33:39 am

We use play dough with cookie cutters, children like to pretend they are making cookies

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dasha unguryan
12/30/2018 11:04:14 pm

we learned how to make different shapes. It was also fun for the kids.

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vladimir unguryan
12/31/2018 04:30:36 pm

we cut out shapes and numbers. Was very fun for the kids and great learning experience.

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Brandi Smith
1/1/2019 10:13:16 am

We have used Playdough where each child picked a food item to create, they played restaurant and made pizza, our, hot dogs and French fries.

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Michelle
2/18/2019 06:08:12 pm

I use playdoh to show concepts of shorter vs taller, larger vs smaller and on top or below

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Barbara Cummings
3/27/2019 09:21:43 pm

We have 3 sets of play-doh trays on a shelf for the kids to play with. We change out the cookie cutters for whatever lesson we are on and the play doh is changed color once a month. Kids seem to like it more at the beginning of the month. I would like to do a small group lesson with the kids.

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Charity R Bettelyoun
4/9/2019 01:14:36 pm

I like to make playdough in a bag with small groups. I have a laminated recipe card we follow and the children scoopthe flour, pour thier own water and pick out their own food coloring to add to the bag. We then close the bag a squish them around until we make playdough. We then compare them as to who needed to add more flour or water to make thier dough. I do this activity with all age groups. I just help more with the younger ages.

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Sandi
11/10/2019 09:04:12 am

We have used Playdough where each child picked a food item to create, they played housekeeping and made pizza, hot dogs and French fries, and a bunch of other foods. We also use play dough with cookie cutters, children like to pretend they are making cookies

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