Craftplay Plastic dough/potato people shapes - Pack of 52 face/body features - Make your own potato/dough person

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Note: The size of your bowl depends on how big of a face or portrait you want to make. You can do this with a small cereal bowl or with a large mixing bowl. It’s up to you. Self laminating pouches are also great, and we have used these a few times. If you find that the play dough mats are being used over and over, and become one of your child’s favorite then I would recommend going with the self lamination pouches.

Learning to accept them and get comfortable with them is not always easy – but let’s talk about it! Angry Face Playdough Mat What makes you feel scared, and what do you do when you feel scared? What helps you feel better again? Here are our family’s play dough faces, mostly finished. See the play dough flower in the hair of the play dough person on the left? Maia came up with a special technique for making those with a garlic press. Extend the emotions further by seeing if they can copy them – using a mirror can help your child to make the facial expression.Then I invited my children to come see what I had set up. They immediately knew what to do and were very happy to get started. If your child needs help then you could use a play dough mat to support their creativity. We like these from Sparkle Box here All of our free printable playdough mats are open-ended. That means that there is no one ‘correct’ way to use them. Using play dough is a great fine motor work out for toddlers, preschoolers and young school aged kids, as any teacher will tell you. You can use poke-ins such as googly eyes, buttons, or beads to add detail to your play dough face if you like.

These are a few topics to explore while making some scared faces together with your playdough. Worried Face Playdough Mat If you have different coloured play dough, model the language as you make the face(s) (“I’m making a green nose and yellow eyebrows”)

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The aim of our open-ended play dough mats is to spark a child’s interest and creativity, without totally directing their play. They are a starting point, designed to invite kids to play and explore. There are no right or wrong way to use these mats, so if Santa wears green shorts and the snail has wings, that’s totally ok! Let your kids be creative! They are full of blank faces, empty plates, bare gardens, and more, just waiting to be filled with anything you can imagine! Why would you choose an open-ended playdough mat? This understanding of individual likes and dislikes is a key moment, and allows children to understand things from someone else’s perspective. Sad Face Playdough Mat They each grabbed play dough and began adding facial features to the heads. My 5-year-old was very detailed and remembered to add things like the pupil of an eye, eyebrows and eyelashes. She added these features in her own way. Even though they didn’t actually look like actual facial features, they were exactly right in her mind. I love that!