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Combining play dough with rocks for creative sensory play is always popular in our house, and this week there was an extra special component because we made pumpkin pie scented play dough using Tinkerlab’s play dough recipe! It made a LOT of gorgeous play dough – plenty to send most of it off for Johnny’s preschool class, and still have a bit left over for ourselves.
Adding a small toy hamster opened up a whole new pretend play world for the kids within this already-popular activity! All three kids worked together to build the hamster’s house, complete with toys, a bed, and a toilet!
Learning Laboratory is a space to share the creative, fun, hands-on learning that happens every day. Here are a few favorite links from last week:
- Art at the playground from My Magical menagerie
- Paper Towel Roll Log Cabin from Sparkle and Splatter
- How to Help Picky Eaters by Using Sensory Play from Pinning Every Day
- Autumn Leaves Window Display from Sunnydaytodaymama
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Mmmmmm, if only this was scratch-n-sniff! :) Love it that you shared the play dough joy with Johnny’s class, and that the hamster’s house had a toilet. :)
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maryanne Reply:
October 16th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
I love that little detail :)
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How sweet is that little house. I never thought to combine rocks and play dough but it makes so much sense, going to try it!
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We love to add stuff to our play dough too. It’s so much fun.
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Scented play dough sounds awesome! We’ll have to try that some time.
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maryanne Reply:
October 16th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
You’ll love it! The kids find playing with it very calming, too.
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I LOVE the colour of that play dough! I have no idea what Pumpkin Pie smells like but the idea of it is wonderful. I’ll check out that link :)
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maryanne Reply:
October 16th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
It smells like cinnamon and ginger – lovely :)
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I see how adding a small toy makes it all the more interesting! Pumpkin dough must smell amazing!
Visit Natalie … Week In Review–October 14, 2012
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Perfect!
Visit sherri … Black Cats and Homeschool!
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That’s totally my kids. They combine lots of different toys and it always makes for more fun.
Visit marie … 67
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Love the pumpkin playdoh idea. Can’t wait to try it with my little guy. :)
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I love to make different kinds of play dough. We have made so many different scents, colors, and textures. It has been a while, I should make some. This summer we made play dough with sand in it and the kids loved the texture. They also like to add vase filler pieces (the cheap dollar store kind) to play dough.
Visit Christy … Halloween Cookies and Cream Muddy Buddies
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I love this idea! We will have to try this.
Visit Jen Fischer … Outdoor Play: Pumpkin and Leaves Blog Hop + Free Backyard Pumpkin Hunt
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I love the attention detail in this and I can already imagine the smell of the playdough (it’s one that we haven’t made yet and I need to before Fall finishes)
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The play dough is like mortar!
Thanks for the link up : )
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I’d be nervous that my youngest would be tempted to eat pie-scented play dough
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maryanne Reply:
October 22nd, 2012 at 11:38 am
That’s why this was my first attempt at scented play dough! None of my kids even thought to try it, but they are 3, 4, and 6.
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