Are you hoping to find some activities to entertain your child while stuck at home, or perhaps while you are working from home? This post is full of engaging play dough activities for preschoolers!
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Preschool Play Dough Activities
Play dough is the perfect medium for children. It allows for sensory play, allows for fine motor skill development and also allows for children to express their creativity.
Play dough is a great activity for children to engage in for independent play. It’s a great activity to do when you need to get some work done, or have a break for yourself.
Play dough alone is a great activity, but adding some props can really enhance the play. Of course, Play-Doh sets are perfect for this! If you want an activity that is already prepped and ready for you, I’ve rounded up the best Play-Doh sets for boys and girls. It’s amazing to see the cool and creative things Play-Doh comes out with year after year! These toys are instant classics and your child will get enjoyment out of them over and over again. Click here to see my favs.
If you have the time, making homemade play dough is a fun (and cheaper) alternative to buying Play-Doh. I’ve rounded up 20 great play dough recipes here. There are recipes that are scented, edible, gluten-free, and even play dough that changes colours as you play with it!
Below I’ve rounded up over 20 great play dough activities for preschoolers. These fun activities also work for older toddlers (who are past the stage of putting things in their mouths) and even for big kids! These play dough activities will engage any child while you have some quiet time, be it for work, or housework, or self care.
I hope you enjoy these fun play dough activities for preschoolers!
Without further ado, here are the play dough activities for preschoolers! This apple pie activity is so, so cute! It's a play dough activity and an imaginative play activity all in once! I've used this activity for years in kindergarten and kids never fail to adore it! This cool activity is perfect for any science loving preschooler. By adding q-tips to the play dough fun, you can create x-rays, play dough style! By adding tissue paper and pipe cleaners to green, glittery play dough, your child can create a play dough flower garden! This play dough invitation uses yellow play dough and a number of yellow and black manipulatives (e.g. sunflower sees, popcorn kernels, buttons, beans, pom poms, whatever you have around) to make beautiful sunflowers. The perfect play dough invitation to pair with a screening of Peter Rabbit, this is a great activity for Easter. Green play dough, along with Peter Rabbit figurines, plastic veggies, rocks, twigs and natural elements are presented for a fun invitation to play. Love this idea for Easter! A super fun activity for your dino-loving kiddos, you'll need dinosaur fossils and a rolling pin along with your play dough. You could also use plastic bugs, or even plain dinosaur toys to create this fun activity. Sometimes children need a little prompting to encourage their creativity. This fish bowl play dough mat is perfect for just that. Encourage your child to create their own fish! You'll need an at-home laminator for this project, or you could put the sheet in a page protector and tape it shut. Here's another play dough mat. This one is educational and shows the items needed for growing a flower. The concept for this play doug invitation is super simple: bugs in play dough! You can add cookie cutters, a rolling pin for all sorts of fun for bug-loving kids. This play dough activity is perfect for any preschooler who loves princesses! Add some jewels, cookie cutters and play dough to a bin of plastic dolls (choose doll that have plastic hair) and you've got hours of fun! There's nothing like an snacktivity, right? This creative snack + activity pairs perfectly with Dr. Suess's One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. The best part is that both the play dough and the fishies are edible! This invitation to create encourages children to make their own dragon. It uses pipe cleaners, googly eyes and foam pieces to create a fun dragon! This fun pre-writing activity using play dough is a winner. It involves tracing a letter in the play dough and having your child use letter beads to cover it up. A great fun way to expose your child to letters and still have fun! This STEM activity is so much fun! Simply challenge your children to see who can build the tallest tower using play dough and seashells. This activity is the perfect hands-on pairing with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A great way to retell the story and have some fun! This is part play dough activity and part tinker tray. Add loose parts (nuts, bolts, etc.) to metallic play dough and voila! This activity invites children to use seashells to make snails with their play dough. So cute! This play dough invitation invites children to make their own chicken, using feathers, googly eyes and small gems. This is a great educational play dough activity that involves sorting animals into their habitat, whether it be water or land. These play dough mats provide a little more structured learning time, still while using a sensory, tactile material, play dough. Perfect if you're hoping to work on early numeracy skills at home! This is a perfect STEM activity for toddlers and preschoolers! Stick a uncooked strand of spaghetti in some play dough and give your toddler/preschooler a handful of cheerios to stack on the spaghetti. Perfect STEM skill AND fine motor practice! A perfect invitation to build a play dough snowman, even when there's no snow on the ground!Play Dough Activities for Preschoolers
Easy homemade playdough recipe with Sunflower STEAM activity
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