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Playdough activity ideas for children and adults Santa's spaghetti playdough beard! ours grew from a range of tools with Santa Claus's whiskery chin varying between long and flowing to short and stubby. A great opportunity to share different childhood and picture book stories about who and how this gift bringer is all around during late autumn, early winter, when in the northern hemisphere. Please feel free to use the illustrated printable for your own activities or paper & crayons to support personalised drawings. Laminate these or have blank pre-laminated sheets & paper clips available to protect the art work from the dough. Add extruders and scissors and make doughy strings that strengthen hand muscles, honing children's cutting, squeezing and positional skills. Enjoy and a have very merry Yule xx

 Santa Clause's spaghetti string playdough bead!


Resources needed for this playdough activity
Some of the following links are to amazon.co.uk

 A quantity of white playdough - handmade dough recipe
            
 scissors  and extruder tools
 

 Iridescent glitter and silver snowflakes  

Printout of the Santa Claus face

Click to view and print the full Santa playdough beard sheet
Dough extruders to make spaghetti strings  


 
Buy left and right handed children's safety scissors on amazon.co.uk
Buy spaghetti extruder tools on Amazon.co.uk



Other Christmas and winter themed activities

Many more Christmas playdough activity ideas in pictures!
 

Buy hand body lotion moisturiser on Amazon.co.uk
Buy iridescent glitter on Amazon.co.uk
Buy silver snowflake confetti on Amazon.co.uk

Buy laminators and pouches on Amazon.co.uk
Buy mint flavouring on Amazon.co.uk



 

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