Leftover Cloud Dough No Cook Play Dough Recipe

We had leftover cloud dough from our Go Away, Big Green Monster retelling activity and it was time to create a no cook play dough recipe for the 12 Months of Sensory Dough Series. We turned out cloud dough into playdough and recreated an apple themed literacy activity as well.

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Snow Fairy Small World with Snow Sensory Dough

Our preschooler loves fairies! When we learned that Tinker Bell has a sister Periwinkle who is a frost fairy we had to create a winter small world for them to explore complete with snow dough!

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Green Tea Scented Play Dough

Mmm, we love the smell of this green tea play dough! Incorporating the use of all of the senses is a benefit of sensory play. This recipe is even taste safe for little ones and involves plenty of fine motor work through pretend play!

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Glow in the Dark Sensory Sink Letter Hunt

This month the 12 Months of Sensory Dough Series brings you glowing dough recipes! We hid letters in glow in the dark gelatin to add literacy excitement to our sensory play.

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Peppermint Scented Baking Soda Dough

Our house smelled amazing as we created and play with our Peppermint Scented Baking Soda Sensory Dough! 

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Foam Dough with Literacy

We've joined up with fellow KBN bloggers to co-host 12 Months of Sensory Dough.  Here at Still Playing School, we'll be loading the sensory dough experiences with literacy!  Each month you can read about our spin on the dough as we incorporate letters, words, reading, and writing into our messy, fine motor packed fun.

January is foam dough!  We've made sparkle dough in the past using similar ingredients, but I wanted to experiment with adding color this time.

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Applesauce Dough for Sensory Play

Fall is in the air which means applesauce, cinnamon, and apple theme sensory play invitations! We created our own Applesauce Cinnamon Sensory Dough for a fine motor preschool learning experience.

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Fizzy Lemonade Sensory Play Recipe

We created a fizzing sensory play experience with no vinegar! It smells like lemonade so it's prefect for summer and is taste safe for toddlers!

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10 Ways to Play with IncredibleFoam

We had the opportunity to review Discount School Supply's IncredibleFoam Dough by Colorations. We have played with it every single day since we've received it and we are still finding new ways to play and explore with this unique sensory dough! 

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Cloud Dough with Literacy

It's time for February's installment of 12 Months of Sensory Dough!  This month is cloud dough and our spin is to pack in some literacy!  Things didn't go exactly as I planned but we still had fun!

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Mystery Scented Play Dough: Using Your Sense of Smell

This month for the 12 Months of Sensory Dough series we created a Mystery Scented Play Dough Exploration!

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Personalized Salt Dough Ornaments

Our preschooler loved creating these personalized salt dough ornaments for the whole family. From the sensory dough recipe to the final decorations she was proud to be involved in every step! 

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Letter Stamping on the Light Table

We loved learning with our alphabet slime so much that we had to put the clear slime back on the light table for this month's version of 12 Months of Sensory Dough: Slime Dough!

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Clean Mud Gem Dig

We made clean mud sensory dough for the first time! It smelled amazing but my kids weren't too taken with the texture until I hid gems inside to invite them to a fine motor treasure hunt!

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Peeps Play Dough Recipe

When your littlest learners are still sometimes putting things in their mouths you might be worried about giving them sensory recipes to explore. That was certainly the cause in our house when we created our Nutella play dough. Excited to experiment with other edible dough recipes, we headed to the kitchen cabinets again and voila! We created a recipe for edible marshmallow Peeps play dough.

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Ice Cream Play Dough

Ice cream play dough is irresistibly realistic yet it won't melt while you play! We set up a pretend ice cream shop. Check out the recipe for ice cream play dough to make your own with your kids!

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Christmas Sensory Play Ideas for Kids

What is even better than the smells of peppermint, eggnog, pine trees, candy canes, and gingerbread? Try our amazing list of Christmas sensory play ideas for kids!

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Glitter Oobleck

We added sparkle to one of our favorite sensory recipes by including glitter! We love the way oobleck changes between the properties of a liquid and a solid as a non-Newtonian fluid.

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Hide and Seek Spiders in Play Dough

Hide and find spiders in this play dough activity for preschoolers and toddlers! Kids will love digging out and re-hiding the creepy crawlies in the sensory dough for Halloween.

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Go Away, Big Green Monster Cloud Dough

Presenting our children with a bin of colored sensory cloud dough led to a retelling of the story Go Away, Big Green Monster!

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