The children were encouraged to help walk around the yard and find different natural materials they would like to add to their playdough. in nature, play dough.
The children enthusiastically took part in the collection. They then sat at the table in the yard and made some funny faces using sticks, stones, wood bark, and leaves.
Some made their parents faces, and some made the educators faces. The children looked at their art and giggled, saying I have two noses, two mouths, etc.
Objective: The children enhanced their fine and gross motor skills along with social, sharing, creative, and imaginary skills during the experience. These experiences contained nature play, sensory play, and play-dough play.
Natural resources create a more abstract way of thinking for children, and encourage creativity, imagination, and social skills in their play.
Sensory play enhances children’s vocabulary by encouraging them to express what they feel, smell, see, taste, hear, and touch. Play-dough is a fantastic malleable manipulative that builds muscle strength, making it perfect to prepare children for controlling things such as pencils and scissors.
