{"id":234,"date":"2020-05-14T00:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-05-14T00:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:29:19","slug":"make-play-dough-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/2020\/05\/14\/make-play-dough-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Play-Dough at home!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Children love to squish, poke, pound, roll and create with play-dough. Manipulating play-dough increases hand muscle strength which in turn improves dexterity required for skilled drawing and writing. Playing with play-dough is calming because it is tactile, engaging the senses and improving focus. I always try to allow the children time to experience the play-dough before adding tools. Eventually sticks, buttons, dowel (for rolling out the dough) and cookie cutters can be added to the play. Play-dough can become cookies, flowers, worms, bowls, etc. There is no limit to the child’s imagination and play-dough is an excellent medium for creative play. Best of all you can make play-dough at home with many basic ingredients. Store it in an air tight container for up to 4 weeks!<\/p>\n

Since I have already confessed that I do not follow recipes (see my post on Play) I have enlisted my friend and co-worker Beth from Second Street StrongStart to lead you through making play-dough at home. If you have seen me make play-dough at Windsor then you know that there is a little bit more of this, and a little bit less of that happening when I make play- dough with the children. Teacher Beth’s demonstration is bang-on. Thank you Beth! Check out Beth’s Blog for more playful ideas.<\/p>\n

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Children love to squish, poke, pound, roll and create with play-dough. Manipulating play-dough increases hand muscle strength which in turn improves dexterity required for skilled drawing and writing. Playing with play-dough is calming because it is tactile, engaging the senses and improving focus. I alwaysRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/windsor-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}