How to play with OkoNorm playdough. Babipur Weekly feature Six Ways to Play with toys. Educational wooden toys and learning resources for kids.
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OkoNorm playdough is great for all sorts of things - sensory play, to strengthen and develop her fingers ready for writing, as a learning resource and as part of bookish play. Here's six ideas to get you started...
🌈 1. Creative play with cardboard
Draw a shape, animal, character, scene, anything you can think of really on a piece of cardboard (an old Babipur box is perfect for this!). Then it’s as simple as bringing it to life by covering it with playdough. This can be a lovely opportunity to talk about colours.
🌈 2. Learn letters with imprints
Playdough is perfect for making imprints in. Flatten out a piece of playdough and firmly press a letter in - Reel Wood letters are perfect for this! This is a brilliant way to learn through play. Children can either say the letters, listen to you say it or trace their finger over the imprint.
🌈 3. Letter formation with playdough worms!
Another fun way to develop familiarity and confidence with letters is to use playdough alongside The Coach House board. Begin by rolling out a little collection of playdough ‘worms’ and then encourage your child to fit them inside the letters of the board. This is great activity for developing letter recognition and formation.
🌈 4. Simple, open-ended play for motor skills
Playdough is brilliant for child development. Just give your child a ball of playdough and let them explore it. While they are poking, squishing and rolling it they will be gaining strength and developing the small muscles in their hands.
🌈 5. Simple, open-ended play for motor skills
Playdough is a really handy resource to have for maths. Need some counters? Make them out of playdough! Playdough can be used for all sorts of maths activities - counters as visual representations alongside numbers, using different colours or sizes to explore patterns, as a concrete resource for addition and subtraction, to make shapes with.
🌈 6. Playdough story sack
Use playdough to bring books to life like Amy's snails! "It doesn’t have to look good, quite often I have one blob, Tilly has another blob and in her mind they are animals or people who can walk and talk and go on adventures! We love to do this activity while talking about the book The Snail and the Whale."
💡 Handy tip: playdough can be rehydrated if it goes a bit dry and hard, just wrap it in a damp cloth for an hour or so and it will be good as new!
27 янв 2021
