Published: 17 April 2020
Playdough - homemade (try out our recipe) or store bought, and a funky disco song!
Moving to keep healthy and developing fine motor skills.
Give your child some dough - the bigger the piece and firmer the dough, the harder the children’s hands will work! Put your favourite disco track on, and start passing the dough from hand to hand. Making the gap bigger as the children grow in confidence. This will help to develop your toddler’s hand to eye coordination.
Now, encourage your child to pass the dough behind their back, to an area that you can't see. They need to have a good knowledge of their bodies in order to pass the dough to an area they can’t see. They need to have a good internal map to know where their body parts are.
Pass the dough around and through the legs, either sitting down using language such as under and over, or standing up using language such as around and through. This will encourage the children to cross mid-lines on their bodies, top/bottom, left/right and in front/behind.
Pass the dough to each other. This is working on sharing skills, as well as sending and receiving skills (a skill that requires the child to look where the dough is coming from and where it is going to.)
We found a great song on YouTube - click the link, sing along and join in with the dough disco!
Play dough play dough disco (echo) Play dough play dough disco Verse:
Splat splat splat splat splat splat Over to the other side Splat splat splat splat splat splat Now get ready to go Chorus:
Pass pass pass it around Go go go to the disco sound Pass pass from hand to hand Go go go to the disco sound Pass pass pass it around Go go go to the disco sound Pass pass from hand to hand Are you ready? STOP!
Repeat verse with the following:
Pinch Roll Squeeze Play dough play dough disco
What you'll need A stick
