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Frozen Themed Play Dough Activity

June 24, 2014 by Anna Ranson

Make some Frozen themed play dough with sparkly loose materials for imaginative play and story telling. Perfect for all those fans of Elsa and Anna and the Frozen movie and for promoting playful literacy!Frozen themed play dough

A little while back we made some clothes peg Elsa and Anna dolls and the girls have loved playing with them ever since in imaginative play and story re-telling of their new favourite movie, Frozen.

Using our usual, no-cook (and extremely quick!) play dough recipe, I made 2 batches of play dough to enrich their Frozen themed play. I coloured the first with half a teaspoon of blue Wilton Icing Colouring and the other with less that a quarter of the same colour. This resulted in two different and very pretty shades of blue, similar to those seen throughout the movie.

Once they were done we rolled them in LOTS of fine white glitter  and they sparkled just beautifully. It is hard to capture just how sparkly and magical they looked using a camera, but they certainly appeared like they were covered in frost and ice!

Frozen themed play dough set up

I set them out as an Invitation to Play, along with dishes of flat glass gems and snowflake sequins, along with the Anna and Elsa peg dolls themselves. The girls added a girl shaped cookie cutter and wanted to sprinkle more glitter, then the play and storytelling began in earnest.Frozen themed play with play dough

They used the doughs to create mountains, palaces, sheets of ice to skate across and simply to stand the figures up during play.

Frozen play dough and character peg dolls DIY

They decorated the doughs using the gems to represent ice and the sequins became falling snow around the scenes. They they cut out girl figures and decorated them using the embellishments, to make more representations of the characters.Frozen themed play dough with loose parts 

Miss 5 discovered that she could make a beautiful lacy pattern in the play dough by pushing it around the rim of the metal bowl, and added this bit by bit until she had covered the whole outside edge, which looked gorgeous.

When they were finished we picked out the gems and sequins, and stored them for another day, with the play dough stored in some air tight containers for next time. Where some of the two colours had been mixed together it actually made a lovely marbled effect and didn’t ruin the appearance at all.

Frozen themed play dough activity for kids

What they are learning as they play:

creativity: using everyday objects and play materials to represent real life things during play, model making, exploring patterns and textures, combining materials

literacy: storytelling, retelling from memory, creating new stories using familiar characters

[The children are currently aged 5, 4 and 2.]

There’s another cute version of this activity over on Here Come the Girls where they use it to make Elsa’s dress too!

See our full play dough archives here for hundreds of other ideas!

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Filed Under: Age, Clothes Pegs, Create, Creativity, Fine Motor Development, Glitter, Imaginative Play, Invitations to Play, Learn, Literacy, Loose Parts, Make, Play, Play Prompts, Play Recipes, Playdough, Preschooler, School Age, Sensory, Story Prompts, Story Props, Story Telling Tagged With: Frozen, Play Dough, Playful Literacy

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Comments

  1. Mel says

    June 26, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    Another lovely activity! I bet your girls loved it. Mel

  2. Nicola's Beads says

    June 30, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    That is a great idea, the shimmer effect is wonderful 🙂 I have twin boys who turn 2 next month and I think they would probably still try and eat the play dough at the moment but will bookmark this for a later date!

    Nicola
    Nicola’s Beads

  3. Theres Just One Mommy says

    July 1, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    What a beautiful invitation to play! Love those peg dolls, too!

  4. Carol R says

    July 10, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    What color of Wilton blue icing color did you use? I have some but not sure which one to use.

  5. türkiye says

    August 28, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    Harika bi etkinlik çocuklarımla en kısa zamanda uygulamayı düşünüyorum. Teşekkürler 🙂

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