Leisure Time with Kids: Making Animals Out of Play Dough

Kids Play Dough

Kids Play Dough

It is as relaxing for your kids to play with dough, as it is for you to spend some time with your kids. Don’t you instantly feel energized every time you sit with your toddlers and listen to their babble? Spending just an hour with little ones can be refreshing.

Kids often pester their parents to play with them. How do you make sure that you are able to make the most of the time that you spend with your children? Have fun the glowing play dough way! You and your kid can make different things out of clay and both of you will simply wonder how the time flies by when you are busy molding dough into different shapes.

Making Animals Out of Dough

With the variety of colors that clay comes in, you and your kid can create an entire forest. Begin with animals. Here is how you can make some of the wild fauna with clay:

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Learn As You Play: Play Dough Activities

Kids Play Dough

Kids Play Dough

Kids by nature are restless. They crave fun and happiness. They don’t like to sit at a place and focus on things that are stationary. A toy train will catch their attention but a book won’t. While there is no theory that explains the aversion of kids towards books, there is research on how kids can be taught in ways other than lecturing or tutoring. One of the most interesting ways of teaching kids different things is through play and fun activities. Kids play dough aids in satiating a child’s curiosity about various things. Because of therapeutic as well as learning enhancing qualities of play dough, many schools consider it as a part of the curriculum.

Playing with clay is exciting and fun. It is even more entertaining if you begin with the process of making the clay at home with them. This way you can teach them a little bit about proportions as well as kitchen safety. Children take a long time to learn mathematics; at least majority of them do. Moreover, they truly understand mathematics only when they are exposed to practical learning. With the help of clay, you can teach them how to add and subtract in no time.

Another aspect of learning that can be encouraged in children with the help of playing dough is creative imagination. Children are extremely imaginative. With the help of play dough, they can unleash their imagination. Because children feel at ease when they are having fun, with play dough they are able to fully focus on their creative potential.

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Removing Play Dough from Furniture: A Guide Book

Play Dough for Kids

Play Dough for Kids

Being a parent of a tiny tot, you are always worried about the baby accidently sticking play dough in his/her hair. What worries you more is the little one littering Lumi Dough around the house. You dread finding play dough sticking not just in the baby’s hair but in different corners of your home as well.

  1. What if you wake up and find clay sticking to your bed?
  2. How will you remove it from the furniture?
  3. Will you have to buy new furniture because the old one has been ruined with dough?

These are some of the questions that will come in your mind if you have two things at your home: kids and dough.

All said and done, playing with dough is an important element of play in every kid’s life. All the trouble that a grownup might have with dough is worth taking because of the uniqueness of clay. Still, for obsessive compulsive cleaners, here is a helping hand for cleaning dough stuck in the furniture.


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Geography with Play Dough: Learning Enhanced

Glowing Play Dough

Glowing Play Dough

Is your little one’s nickname something related to playing with dough? If yes, then chances are that your tiny tot loves to play with clay. All kids are extremely fond of dough. They love to create things out of the squishy and soft substance. They are as averse to studying as they are fond of playing with dough. Most of the kids, in particular, hate geography. So, how do you make sure that they are able to grasp the geographical facts quickly? How do you make them learn about different states and countries?

With Lumi Dough, even something as tough as geography seems simple and fun. While learning geography with the help of dough, kids are encouraged to make the shape of states with the material. To craft out different places out of kid’s play dough is a practical push to theoretical learning. It’s a hands-on way of making kids learn which state belongs to which country and which country belongs to which continent.

As your kid creates different states out of dough, you can guide him or her with the activity. Challenge the little one to make different states of your country and then bring together the entire map. Your kid will love the idea of getting a little creative as he or she learns about the landmarks of the country.

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