I had fun too while she played, spelling out Mummy and Daddy (much requested words and words that she can read by sight.) Lots of fun and I’m 30 years older than her!
There is plenty of potential in this activity and is certainly one that we will be coming back to often.
For older children (4-6 years) they could use the dough to spell out simple 3 letter CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, or words that are tricky that they need to learn by sight (such as “the”.)
For younger children, explore the shapes that different objects make when pushed into the dough, such as keys, feathers, twigs, shells, combs etc.
For now, learning how to write her name with confidence and starting to sound and recognise letters by name and sound are the stage we are at. I look forward to more Playful Literacy activities soon!
Learning Links:
- literacy: begin to recognise letters by name and sound, know and name the initial letter of their own name, begin to be able to write/ spell out own name, recognise familiar words by sight
- physical development: fine motor skill practise through pinching/rolling/squeezing/pushing/flattening play dough, small hand control through finger tracing in letter impressions
Cakie: 3 years, 5 months
Lisa Jay says
I really like this idea. Will have to introduce my kids to this!
Anna @ The Imagination Tree says
thanks Lisa! hope they enjoy it 🙂
Karen Field says
Hi Anna, where do you get your strawberry scent from – or indeed any of your other more unusual scents?
Carla at Preschool Powol Packets says
I really like how you put beads in the prints! What a fun idea!
MercyMathews says
This looks fun! 🙂 I was just running out of ideas to teach my toddler his ABCs. Will try this out. Thanks for sharing.
jofurniss says
This is such a good idea – I do like the way you suggest activities using real everyday materials. Thanks.
Elaine Kidd says
I just made a new batch of playdough today. I hadn’t thought about doing impressions with it, just cutting with cookie shapes.
Growing a jeweled rose says
My daughter is just starting to learn her lower case letters. This would be such a fun, and simple teaching ool. Great idea 🙂
SarahElisabeth says
We’ve tried this now-works well with foam bath letters.
My Oatmeal Kisses says
So cute! I love how you extended the learning with salt dough!
Jackie H. says
I love this! I have a set of tagboard letters that I got on clearance out of a scrapbooking store. I think they’ll work great! Thanks for sharing this!
Jackie H. says
Thank you for sharing this post with me on KBN. I featured it in my round up on letter learning today!
http://readysetread2me.blogspot.com/2012/03/14-ways-to-explore-letters-in-your.html