39 Playdough Activities for Kids – Ways to Play and Learn with Playdough

Looking for playdough activities for kids? There’s so much potential in  humble playdough, whether you buy yours or make your own. Here are 39 playdough activities, including ways to create, build, play, and learn with playdough.

After posting about cooked versus no cook playdough recipes the other day, I thought I’d follow with a round up of ways for kids to use and play with the playdough. I began with links to my many playdough posts, but then went a little crazy and added all kinds of other playdough fun found around the web.

Enjoy!

39 Playdough Activities for Kids

Playdough Art Activities

• Explore color mixing with playdough (from At the Butterfly Ball)
• Playdough dress up (from Inspiration Surrounds… Creativity Abounds)
• Make a playdough maze (from Squashed Tomatoes)
• Roll the playdough into balls, snakes, and snails
• Make your own natural dyes for the playdough (from Mini Eco)

Poke Things in the Playdough

• Poke in spaghetti (from Having Fun at Home)
• Make spaghetti towers by stringing on pasta and cheerios (from Pre-School Play)
• Make sand playdough and add seashells (from The Imagination Tree)
• Use googly eyes and feathers to create playdough monsters
• Stick candles in for birthday cakes
• Poke in toothpicks to make porcupines and other prickly creatures
• Stick in popsicle sticks
• Add beads and pipecleaners for playdough robots (from Counting Coconuts)

Make Prints in Playdough

• Use sculpey nature prints to make flower and leaf prints in the playdough
• Make leaf prints from real leaves (from Nurture Store)
• Make lace prints in playdough
• Roll textured rolling pins in the playdough

Playdough Kitchen Activities

• Open a playdough bakery (from Frugal Family Fun Blog)
• Be a playdough short order cook
• Make playdough pizza (plus lots of other playdough ideas, from Childhood 101)
• Whip up a batch of edible peanut butter playdough

Make Playdough Gifts

• Make Rainbow playdough
• Here’s Candy Cane Playdough
• And Playdough Snowmen in Snow Globes
• Simple glittery playdough with googly eyes (from Sew Liberated)
• Playdough Valentine’s are sweet! (from Simple as That)
• Playdough gift with cookie cutter and recipe (from eighteen25)

Science Activities with Playdough

• Playdough makes a good volcano
• Use playdough to make a tabletop forest ecosystem
• Make glow in the dark playdough (from Sun Hats & Wellie Boots)
• Create a playdough Earth (from Meet the Dubiens)
• Make galaxy playdough (from Fairy Dust Teaching)

Playdough Literacy Activities

• Write messages in playdough
• Stamp letters in playdough (from KindergartenWorks)
• Practice letters (from KinderGals)

More Playdough Activities for Kids

• Make a playdough train table! (from Filth Wizardry)
• Use the playdough for a fun sensory experience (from The Magic Onions)
• Cut playdough snakes—a great first cutting activity for toddlers (from OT Mom)

Do you have any great playdough ideas for kids to add—either your own or ideas you’ve seen elsewhere? If so, please include them in the comments!

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