Playdough Tracks

Miss M isn't well today and has been asleep early, so I have been trying to keep Master E's noise to a minimum. A perfect opportunity to break out a new batch of playdough.

Master E decided to drive his car through. We talked about the tracks it was making and I showed him how to smooth the playdough out to create new tracks. This kept him occupied for a long time. So I went to find some other cars that would make good tracks.

This motorbike made the best tracks and was the easiest to drive across the playdough. It lead to lots of discussions about textures. Using lots of describing words (smooth, bumpy, rough)

The Taxi is Master E's current favourite car and was used to make the majority of the tracks. 

He went on to make a ramp, by himself to push the cars down.

Making more tracks.

Once Miss M was up she wanted to get into the action too. I gave her farm animals and she spent a long time pushing them in and out  of the playdough making footprints.

Miss M adding as many things to her playdough as she possibly can!

This playdough play lasted for more than an hour and a half with Master E. He was very engaged and loved making all the different tracks. It was a great oppotunity to increase his language and continue to develop his fine motor skills.