Craftplay Plastic dough/potato people shapes - Pack of 52 face/body features - Make your own potato/dough person

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These are a few topics to explore while making some scared faces together with your playdough. Worried Face Playdough Mat Draw the outline of head on each piece of multicultural construction paper that you would like to use. You can also trace a template of a head. Making play dough faces is so much fun and a great way for kids to learn about their body while developing fine motor skills. It is perfect for a preschool body theme. You can use home-made play dough, shop bought dough, modelling clay/plasticine, or any kind of dough. You don’t need anything other than the mats and the dough, but collecting a few accessories to go with the theme is loads of fun too.

All of our free printable playdough mats are open-ended. That means that there is no one ‘correct’ way to use them. Talk about the body parts as you put them together. Preschool children will probably know the basics (eyes, nose, mouth, ears etc) but will be learning more complex words such as eyelashes, eyebrows etc so talk about these are they make their play dough face. The goal is not for kids to make a perfect face, but rather, to learn about facial features, exercise creativity and imagination and develop fine motor skills. He often looked at my face or his sister’s face to see what he might be missing. This was a great way for him to learn about the parts of a face!Eye-hand coordination – coordinating hand and eye movements and working on visual-motor coordination.

All of the free printable play dough sets are A4 sized pdf files, and you will need a pdf reader such as Adobe Acrobat to open them. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options. I have added these mats to our play dough bin and they are sure to make an appearance time and time again! You can cover your entire face with a play dough skin as Maia did above or just add your facial features directly to the bowl. Less than a year from the time it was first sold as an off-white modelling compound, Play-Doh eventually branched out to multiple colours. It continues to expand and evolve into the rainbow modelling toy that we know and love. Play-Doh Is Safe for Children (and Adults too)Choosing an open-ended playdough mat inspires creativity and imagination. They allow children to express their ideas and knowledge in any way they like, and encourages creative thinking, problem solving and ingenuity. Then I invited my children to come see what I had set up. They immediately knew what to do and were very happy to get started. If you have different coloured play dough, model the language as you make the face(s) (“I’m making a green nose and yellow eyebrows”) When we are laughing, how do we feel? Talk about the things that make us laugh, and explore different ways of making a laughing face out of play dough, or making some silly funny faces. Scared Face Playdough Mat

Self laminating pouches are also great, and we have used these a few times. If you find that the play dough mats are being used over and over, and become one of your child’s favorite then I would recommend going with the self lamination pouches. Rather than taking about emotions in an abstract way only, let them get involved with their hands and make something that they can see and touch. She added these features in her own way. Even though they didn’t actually look like actual facial features, they were exactly right in her mind. I love that!

Talking about the positive emotions is just as important. What makes you feel proud, and how does that look? Sleepy Face Playdough Mat

Play-Doh is the modelling toy that is perfect for kids because of its non-toxic features. It doesn’t stain clothes and walls. You don’t need to worry much if you are a parent! There is so much benefit in children being able to identify and name their feelings, so that they can understand their own emotions in different circumstances. This skill will be vital all the way through their lives, as they grow. They are a great way to follow your children’s interests and build on their knowledge through open-ended and creative play, and a fun way to reinforce specific concepts. Plus, they are a great way to work on a range of essential developmental skills. What do kids learn from using play dough mats? Playdough and playdough mats can be used in so many different ways, and kids of all ages just love this activity – even big kids love playing with playdough if you give them a chance! Giving kids the vocabulary to name their own emotions is really helpful, and this hands on activity opens up the topic in such a simple and easy way. List of Emotions and Feelings for KidsYou can use poke-ins such as googly eyes, buttons, or beads to add detail to your play dough face if you like. Play dough is one of the most popular and age old activities for children all ages. This fun, activity reinforces body part vocabulary and allows your child to explore some emotions in a multisensory learning experience. While making faces on these play dough mats, young children will develop the following skills will develop their fine motor muscles while learning about the human body – more specifically, the face. Language and social skills – including talking about what they are making with other children and adults, sharing ideas, sharing items etc. Squeezing and squishing the play dough is an easy way to strengthen their little hand muscles all while having fun.