Playdough News these are continued from the front page and list all the activities, updates, stories and links that have been added to the site.   2018 and 2019 are now archived here     2016 and 2017 are now archived here  The summer holidays are upon us! with school out, put playdough in!    Find a range of modelling activities to keep all hands busy throughout the next several weeks: Summer playdough activity ideas News for May 2019  and here's May, yay :D Still with spring and Hedgehog awareness week 5th - 11th May hedgehog playdough mats News for April 2019  April's arrived! and with it comes lots of reasons to enjoy a variety of spring time playdough activities News for January 2019  Happy New year! Thank you to all site visitors and supporters throughout 2018, here's to 2019, may it be filled with lots of playful days and many restful nights.  News for December  2018  Christmas playdough gallery  picture inspiration to fill the days with festive suggestions   Merry Christmas Eve xx  Playdough pine cone scales  roll, flatten and position    The festive season is in full swing  and there are a variety of Yule Christmassy activity links on this playdough page    News for November 2018  Poppy playdough is a useful activity to help young children explore the events of Remembrance Day on November 11th and the respectful gatherings that honour the lives lost in war.     Fireworks!!! Help your November 5th playdough activities happen with a crackle, fizzle and pop ...    News for October 2018 Don't forget your ping pong balls, permanent markers and false teeth in the build up to the 31st .. Pingpongular playdough scares    News for September2018 Horse chestnut tree conkers are beginning to appear! Forage for some of these peeking treasures and add them to dough.  Conker Playdough activities over on silkysteps  News for August 2018 Apples and unicorns!  print and play counting games  Happy Lammas! To enjoy a month filled with harvest ideas begin with a set of wheat themed playdough mats and a recipe for wholegrain dough . News for July 2018 Wow, so who stole July!? On the news front the USA's Trade War impacts on Play-Doh maker Hasbro and a heatwave warms all corners of the UK.  Spare a thought  for local wildlife and put out a bowl of water and a few biscuits (cat biscuits work well)  Hedgehog playdough activities    Happy first of the month! With the summer quickly warming up this Cl'awesome crab playdough idea can help cool things down with thoughts of an ocean breeze ..     News for June 2018 Spider babies! everywhere! so why not have fun exploring the formation of their webs though snipped lengths of yarn, spiderweb playdough mats, balls and ropes of playdough?    spider webs and playdough Our pot-contained mint is recovering nicely from the frosty mornings and the leaves make a great addition to some vapour rub dough for snuffly sculptors  Lion manes! cut a circle of dough for the lion head, a ball for its muzzle and two squashed round as ears. Then trim, snip and extrude dough to build the familiar big cat's face. Black buttons Damp drizzly morning here on our patch of the UK, looking out with some edible croissants :) Triangle shape cutting and rolling playdough activity. News for June 2018 If you stopped by yesterday to find the site was missing, apologies! Our host suffered a major network outage which took us offline, back now with an expressive doughy activity idea and link to resources on amazon.co.uk   Playdough face mats, creating smiles and frowns.. News for May 2018 Twinkle twinkle star playdough combine glitter, dough, glow in the dark stars with black and white torches that charge and illuminate .. Playdough beanstalks how tall will yours grow and is there a Giant waiting above? Monster feeding! a cute way to involve numbers, dice, counting and turn taking is with mounds of coloured playdough and Hungry monster printables!  Lavender scented playdough to fill the air with calm and the table top with aromatic hugs .. Playdough cement, mix up a batch and sandwich together blocks for a house, a shed, garage or build a garden wall..  The kitchen drawer is a chest of playdough tool treasures! Press, mash and extrude to create a whole range of doughy effects - playdough tools from the kitchen drawer On May 18th Hasbro successfully trademarked the scent of their iconic Play-Doh - on Toy News  Whisker snipping!  roll tapered threads of playdough and use scissors to practice fine motor skills whilst dressing animal faces with eyelashes and vibrissa!  Enjoy the Royal Wedding today with some popcorn box outlines, wobbly eyes and a mound of playdough that can be modelled into flag-waving procession goers!  If you're gearing up for some weekend motor sport these outline F1 cars can be laminated, coloured in with chalk pens and playdough used to make each car ahead & body racing driver.  Get ready on the start line, get set and rev the engine,  now it's time for GOooooo. Drivers losing their head over this will need to take some time out to rethink their strategy. First past the finish line wins their name on a prestigous golden cup award. Racing car playdough game   Outside playing? Forage for little twigs, sticks and sprigs that can decorate a ring of dough and turn it into a bird nest! Sculpt puffy white playdough clouds for a unicorn game! Use a die to create a bridge from one rainbow platform to the other, whilst sprinkling sparkle dust over the game board .. Still plenty of time to sow seeds for the summer - on RHS if you're planning on a border filled with sunny sunflowers, savea few seedsto collage designs on the surface of dough - sunflower playdough mats  Monday morning in the UK and what better way to start than by setting up a brunch bar withsome pretend nutritious  baked beans! Great for counting, sharing and talking about fibrousbodily functions! parp putty jars on amazon.co.uk  or make your own finger-noisy flubber slime with this borax-free recipe & some little containers. Tadpole time!  roll balls of black dough add silver pony bead eyes and swishy tails  ... New sunshine playdough mat has been added to support sun awareness activities that compliment the sun safety preschool rhyme  Mowing the lawn?  Blend up some grass soup and colour children's playdough green! natural dyed playdough recipe  Wishing everyone a tranquil Bank Holiday weekend, save a handful of sand if you're visiting the coast and mix up some sand clay for handprint keepsakes or dough creations tossed and served from a BBQ  - 10 veggie sausages in a frying pan rhyme and printables over on silkysteps.com Play-Doh and The Creation Station have teamed up to offer workshops across the UK for 25 EYFS, Year one class schools. For more information please visit the article on thecreationstation.co.uk and  application on this page  News for April 2018 Dough Buddies by Kiddy Dough on amazon.co.uk.  These lovely little playdough stampers make great role play characters to join in the fun of our Monster playdough mats The month of spring showers. Enjoy raindrop sculpting with blue dough and rainbow umbrellas   Create some permanent sculptures this Easter holiday with some fimo clay and an oven!   News for March 2018   At the close of March, take a wander through the spring themed playdough ideas on this page ...    Make a pond where ripples can be drawn  with fingers and wriggly tadpoles added for play Not playdough but polymer clay!  a new recycled glass bottle light idea over on pixiehats.com... Kersplatt!  take your modelling to a whole different gaming level ... Snow dominates!  print some finger puppets and role play with snowy dough News for February 2018    Daffodil playdough cone and petal templates for St. David's Day, spring, Ostara and Easter activities   Incy Wincy spider nursery rhyme playdough activities  Happy Valentine's Day share a hug, a smile, a thoughtful word and some dough on this day of appreciation.  Stock up for half term with tubs of Play-Doh that add colour and possibility to children's activities Valentine's Day isn't far off, plan ahead with printable hearts, sprinkles and rainbows! Twiggy bird nests. With spring on the way print out some playdough mats and fill with garden birds!  National Pizza Day! print some box templates and use to deliver your creative toppings The start of a new playdough activity page featuring watermelons isnow underway ... Buy a colour copy of the Hickory Dickory Dock printables  and into the second month of the year we gallop ... this time with a collection of unicorn activity ideas  News for January 2018   Need a kitchen to  to cook up a playdough storm? Amazon.co.uk have a great range of units just perfect for supporting children's creative ideas. National croissant day  time to cut  triangles, roll and serve .. Tadpole tails is a cute early years activity involving paint in zip lock bags, silver beads for eyes and  numbered tails for lining up! Pancake day is fast approaching,this lemon peel playdough recipe will help everyone have fun flipping and tossing their doughy rounds.  Happy popcorn day!  enjoy your activities with some popcorn box templates, characters and modelling on a popcorn playdough mat   Frozen ice themed slime recipe for lots of super slippery tactile fun! Sort out the kitchen drawer for some unusual dough scultping tools! Christmas gift vouchers to spend on amazon.co.uk?  expand your Play-Doh activities with an I spy style book  Happy New Year :D  may 2018 be happy, kind and fille with play!  My apologies fo rbeing so quiet throughout December, hoping things will now get back to their daily 'ish happenings. 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