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How to Make Easy Individual Playdough Kits for Your Kids

Learn how to make inexpensive playdough kits. These individual DIY playdough boxes are a fun, easy, and engaging activity for your kids. These play doh kits are a great sensory activity and are perfect for way to be compliant when kids can't share supplies in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. You can also use them at home for virtual learning, homeschool, rainy days, quiet mornings, as a gift , or for a party favor. Perfect for any theme, spring, summer, fall, and winter.

When your kids can’t share supplies, you can easily create individual playdough kits for them to use. Let me show you how.

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How to Make a Space Theme Playdough Tray

Learn how to easily create a space theme playdough tray for your preschoolers with these material ideas. Your kids will love this invitation to play. Perfect for open-ended play in preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom for a space-themed or transportation theme unit or lesson plans. Combine fine motor skills activities, sensory play, + science. Your little astronauts can explore planets, rockets, the moon in a hands-on play-based way - with play dough. Click to get lots of ideas.

Easily create a space theme playdough tray for your preschoolers with these great material ideas. Your kids will love creating with this invitation to play.

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How to Make Playdough Trays for Every Season of the Year

Find LOTS of ideas to put together simple playdough trays for the whole year...spring, summer, winter, and fall. Your kids will love the unique materials in these playdough invitations to play. Tons of ideas for many themes and all seasons. Playdough trays make great sensory and fine motor skills activity....a fun hands-on learning activity. These ideas are great for your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classrooms #preschool #playdough

Find LOTS of ideas to put together playdough trays for the whole year. Your kids will love the unique materials in these playdough invitations to play.

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How to Make a Fun Playdough tray for your All About Me Theme

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Put together a playdough tray for your all about me theme.  Your kids will love playing with these materials during the first week of school or any time of year.

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How to Make an Exciting Plant Theme Playdough Invitation

Make a plant theme playdough invitation to play. Here are lots of material ideas to make an exciting plant & garden theme playdough tray. This is a great hands-on fine motor and sensory activity for your garden theme, plants theme, spring theme, or Earth Day theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Kids will love planting plants and seeds in the brown playdough and will have opportunities for math and literacy learning as they create with worms. #preschool #playdough

Your kids will love this plant theme playdough invitation to play. Here are lots of material ideas to make an exciting plant & garden theme playdough tray.

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How to Easily Assemble a Fun Flower Play Dough Tray

Create a fun flower playdough tray for your kids with these unique material ideas. Your kids will love this open-ended, flower-themed activity. Material and easy ideas for a playdough invitation to play for your flower theme, garden theme or spring theme unit or lesson plans. Add playdough mats for literacy and math learning. Perfect for your preschool or pre-k classroom and fine motor learning centers. Your kids will have fun making flower-themed creations. #preschool #playdough #finemotor

Create an engaging flower playdough tray for your kids with these unique material ideas. Your kids will love this open-ended, flower-themed activity.

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How to Make a Simple Butterfly Playdough Tray That Your Kids Will Love

Here are lots of ideas to create a fun and engaging butterfly themed playdough tray for your kids. They will not be able to resist this invitation to play. Perfect for your butterfly theme, spring theme, Very Hungry Caterpillar theme, or bugs and insect theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool classroom. Great for play-based and hands-on learning and fine motor skills practice. Lots of ideas for additional materials. #playdough #preschool #invitationtoplay

Here are lots of ideas to create a fun and engaging butterfly themed playdough tray for your kids. They will not be able to resist this invitation to play.

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How to Make the Best Bug Themed Playdough Invitation to Play

Create a bug themed playdough invitation to play with these material ideas. Your kids will have a blast with this activity. It's perfect for your bugs and insects theme, camping theme, outdoor theme, spring theme, summer theme units and lesson plans in a preschool or pre-k classroom. Kids can make bugs, create insect habitats. There are also ideas to add math and literacy learning activities to this play based learning center. Add ladybugs, spiders, bees, etc. #preschool #playdough

Create a bug themed playdough invitation to play with these material ideas. Your kids will have a blast with this bug & insects theme activity.

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Try out these hand strengthening activities for kids. The fun fine motor activities will build and improve strength in little hand muscles. From squeezing activities to hole punch and plunger activities, these ideas to increase hand strength are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, occupational therapy classrooms, and at home. From theraputty, toys like squigz, and squirt guns your preschoolers will love these ideas. Check them out today.
Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities
Alphabet activities such as making letter collages or using letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter identification and reinforce letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages or letter mats. A printable reference list or art and other materials is included. Better than worksheets, these are perfect hands-on activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans. Your young children will love this sensory learning opportunity. #preachool

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Kids love these hole punch activities. Use the printables to build fine motor skills, for hand strengthening, and to improve hand-eye coordination in a fun and exciting way. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, special education and occupational therapy classroom. The printables include shapes and many themes and seasonal printables to use during spring, summer, winter, and fall. #finemotor #finemotorskills #preschool
Use these 11 different printable name puzzles with your preschoolers for name and literacy activities. Find ideas for the whole year! Perfect for your preschool or kindergarten classroom, or at-home learning or homeschool. Teach your kids to spell their names, construct their names, and the beginning steps to writing their names with these hands-on activities. Make learning fun in fall, winter, spring, & fall with themes from pumpkin, Thanksgiving, caterpillar, snowman, and many more!
There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool
Use these 1-20 number activity mats to help your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and number sense.  The mats are a great multi-sensory tool that your kids will love. There are so many ways to explore numbers on just one page. Use playdough to form numerals, trace the dotted numbers, represent the number with finger-counting cards, ten frame, and build the number with counting cubes. #preschoolmath #prekmath #kindergarten
Use these CVC Beginning Sound Clip cards to help your kids hear and see the beginning sounds in words. They will love this hands-on early literacy activity...perfect for teaching early literacy concepts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 17 word families are included. Looking for ideas for teaching rhyming, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness? These activities are perfect for your literacy centers as independent and small group activities.
These rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the rhyming words in this activity. Perfect for small group or independent activities in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. An engaging way to teach rhyming, early literacy concepts, and phonological awareness to young children. #rhymingactivities

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