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As an added benefit, playdough mats support emotional regulation. These emotions playdough mats can be used in combination with other self regulation strategies to offer heavy work through the hands while building emotional intelligence in kids. Boosts creativity and imagination There are many commercially available play dough tools, but there are also tools that can be found in the home! Kitchen tools safe for children to use, are some of the best tools for bilateral hand skills. Start with simple flatware such as butter knives, forks, and spoons. Next, look through your utensil drawers. Another idea is to use play dough ropes to form letters and pre-writing lines and shapes with play dough. Do you have a spatula, pizza wheel, cookie cutters, garlic press, rolling pin, scissors, potato masher, skewers, or a muffin pan? These are perfect for play dough playtime! Experiment and see what your learners like to use. Build those bilateral coordination skills, while also building early life skills, with the use of kitchen tools. It’s a win for childhood development. sensory development

If making your own play dough, add a little calming essential oil, and you’ve given it another desirable element for calm play, and time away. Another great benefit of play dough! Play dough helps build multiple fine motor skills, while promoting play, as it instantly provides multi-sensory hands-on interaction. Children who are tactile seekers love to engage with play dough, and instantly begin squishing, squeezing, and molding it. When kids use play dough tools like plastic knives, play dough scissors, and other sculpting tools, they are strengthening the skills needed to hold a fork and spoon, developmental progression of grasping utensils, and particularly the skill of cutting food with a knife. If you have a few kiddos who seem to struggle with creativity, or imaginative play while at the play dough table, The OT Toolbox has you covered with these great play dough mats to facilitate engagement and boost creativity for kids.Using play dough can be great for the sensory seeker who loves texture. Those who seek out heavy work through the hands can benefit from Learners of all ages and stages can reap the benefits of play dough. As an adult, don’t you still enjoy the squishing, squeezing, and molding fun using play dough? Interacting with play dough provides social emotional learning and social skill development opportunities between children in a small group or child and adult. Our Wooden Play Dough Set is crafted from sustainable and eco-friendly beechwood, making it a perfect choice for both home and nursery use.

If you want a fun way to encourage play dough engagement, it can be fun to add a weekly or monthly theme to therapy sessions way to facilitate hand actions, for play dough manipulation, including tool use.Just use play dough in each session and switch out the manipulatives, cookie cutters, or items to hide in the play dough. There are many cool play dough tray ideas and inspiration for other themed activities that will make your play dough table the coolest table in the school building. Add gloves for play with the learner with extreme avoidance, until they can tolerate touching the play dough.Rolling a play dough snake is particularly effective for developing bilateral coordination skills. In many functional tasks, both hands do symmetrical task (buttoning a shirt, pulling up pants, jumping rope, etc. When rolling a lump of play dough with the hands together, one needs to use the same amount of pressure or force with both hands, and move the playdough together at the same time. Otherwise, the play dough snake is lopsided, or thin on one end and not the other. When using play dough with no right or wrong way to play, play it is the perfect tool for social interaction without competition. Learning tool Get out a set of Mr. Potato Head pieces and work on pressing these into the dough to make a funny character.