Kids Activities with Play Dough

Lumi Dough – Kids Play Dough

Keeping kids busy is a tough nut. It is tougher perhaps to keep them busy for a long time on the same thing. Children, by nature, are restless. While they love to start a game, they can barely manage to spend some time on it. They are easily distracted by anything that seems new to them. Unlike most activities that catch only momentary attention of your child, playing with glowing play dough is a sure shot way of keeping your kids busy for hours.

Another reason why playing with dough qualifies as an essential activity for every child to spend some time on is that it aids in physical as well as mental growth of the child. When a kid is offered a small ball of dough to play with, he or she gleams with happiness. The child immediately starts creating interesting things out of it. Even if he does not create anything out of the dough, he/she would joyfully pound and pat it.

Playing with clay helps kids develop dexterity. It also channels their energy. However, the most important reason that every child must be given dough to play with is that by shaping and molding dough they can let out emotions like frustration, love, anger and care even when they have not reached the stage when they can identify feelings and emotions.

What’s more? There are a lot of fun ways of playing with dough. Some of these are mentioned as follows:

1. Make Colorful Dolls: Molding clay into the shape of tiny dolls is an interesting way to help your child learn the art of making something useful. He or she can later on play with the same dolls. Otherwise, you can keep these tiny dolls as showpieces and flaunt them as your kid’s work of art.
2. Trains and Cars: Creating vehicles out of clay is another interesting activity. It requires the child to use different muscular movements like pressing or patting. At times, he or she will have to apply less pressure and at times will have to use force. Making cars and trains, or airplanes, for that matter, are time as well as energy consuming activities. Therefore, your assistance might be needed.
3. Alphabets or Numbers: To enhance the learning experience of kids, pre-school teachers as well as child psychologists often advise the parents to encourage children to play with dough. Creating alphabets and numbers out of clay can catch your kid’s attention. It is a more effective way of teaching basics to kids as compared to a bookish method.
4. Team Work With Play Dough: Plan out a group activity with lots of children. Give all of them some dough and ask them to work together on something like a garden or a sea beach. This way, you will not only keep them busy and interested in a single activity, but will also expose them to the idea of team work.

Lumi Dough Airplane

After the age of 3, every kid must be allowed to play with clay as much as he wishes to. Do not refrain him/her from this interesting and engaging play only because of the fear that they might end up dirtying the floor. The dirt is worth what they are learning. Besides, to take care of the mess, there are options like Lumi Dough, glowing play dough, that doesn’t create any mess around. Good quality dough can also be easily separated so that there is no waste. Playing with dough can bring a world of difference in your child’s behavior, in a positive manner.