Play dough activities are a great way to help young children develop fine motor skills as well as bilateral coordination skills!

There are many other benefits as well. For one, play dough provides a great sensory medium, which can be used to help children who struggle with sensory processing.

Play dough play can also help develop coordination skills.

For example, young children will use hand-eye coordination to cut, poke and prod play dough and when using cookie cutters in the dough.

Lastly, manipulating play dough helps to strengthen hand muscles and develop control over the fingers.

For our week of snowman-themed activities, we utilized this medium to create our very snowmen.

We did this by combining play dough, googly eyes, pipe cleaners and rocks. We had so much for creating and then tearing down our creations!