Play-dough Power

I love this article, Playdough Power.  It speaks to the importance of allowing our kids to play with Play-dough and the important literacy and math skills that can be learned.  More importantly, it includes a recipe to make your own!  Sadly, most schools have gotten rid of play-dough for you know, the important stuff like reading, writing, and arithmetic. Before you over-react, those are very important, but so is playing with play-dough.  Many kids come to school with horrible fine motor skills.   They develop those skills working with play-dough, among other things.

We can argue all day as to why schools no longer allow it, but that would serve no purpose.  Most have done away with it, so we have to move on and hope the pendulum will eventually swing back. Until then what is keeping you from getting it out for your child?  My control issues went into overdrive if my kids mixed the colors.  I had to ask myself, why did I care?  Let them mix the colors.  It could make a mess, but once it dries, it's easy to sweep up.  If you use the recipe from the article, you don't have to worry as much about cost.

Kids love just rolling the dough between their hands making long snakes.   All the Play-dough kits are fun, making cakes, cupcakes, animals etc., but so is rolling and making balls or just
creating.

We can complain all day about it not being in schools any longer, and we can also make sure our kids play with it at home.

Roll out the play-dough!