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Play Dough Cookies Activity– Fun Scissor Practice & Creative Play for Kids

Encourage fine motor skills with this fun Play Dough Cookies craft! Perfect for scissor practice and creative play, this hands-on activity helps kids develop cutting…

by  Katie

Encourage fine motor skills with this fun Play Dough Cookies craft! Perfect for scissor practice and creative play, this hands-on activity helps kids develop cutting skills while having a blast.

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Cutting with scissors takes a lot of coordination and hand strength. Playing with play dough is a great way to strengthen hand muscles so combining scissor skills and play dough seems like a perfect idea.

Ms. Tiger loved this activity! Not only did she get to play with play dough (great sensory play), she got to use her scissors to cut it which was exciting because she was cutting something other then paper. Once her cookie was cut out she set to work decorating it (great fine motor skills practice). I loved watching her work, she looked like a little baker busy creating yummy treats. She even made up a little song to sing while she worked.

While you have your cookie cutters out, try heart cookie cutter painting and this playdough fine motor activities pdf. 

 

Encourage fine motor skills with this fun Play Dough Cookies craft! Perfect for scissor practice and creative play, this hands-on activity helps kids develop cutting skills while having a blast.

 
 

Supplies:
Play dough
Scissors
Sequins or jewels
Cookie cutters (simple shapes and patterns would work best)
Rolling pin

Directions:
1.  Have child roll the play dough out flat with the rolling pin, and use the cookie cutters to make an indentation on the play dough. Don’t push the cookie cutter all the way down.

2.  Have child use their scissors to cut along the indentation to make their cookie. I shared some tips for learning how to use scissors on our scissor skills sun craft here.

3.  Decorate cookie with sequins.

 
 

You may also be interested in our list of

 20 Fine Motor Skills Activities  

 

More Scissor Practice Activities presented by the Creative Preschool Collaboration:

Paper Plate Hair Cutting Activity by Pink Stripey Socks
Paper Straw Snowflakes by I Heart Crafty Things
 
As always, thanks for joining us today and for pinning and sharing our play dough activity with your friends. Have a fun day!
Love Katie & the Kiddos

8 comments

    1. Thanks so much for visiting and the sweet comment and pin 🙂

  2. I love cutting play dough with scissors! (My kids love it too! *wink*)

    I adore how colourful the play dough is too. What fun!

    Thanks for sharing.

    Wishing you a lovely weekend.
    xoxo

    1. Hi Jennifer, Love it! This activity definitely had my name all over it too… The decorating part was my favorite, lol 🙂 I hope you have a great weekend too!

  3. Looks like a really fun way to practice cutting with scissors! 😉 I also like the marbled play dough!

    1. Thanks so much PinkStripeySocks! I liked the marbled play dough too, especially because it had tiny sparkles in it 🙂

    1. Thanks so much Rachel! The marbled play dough was all my daughters doing. She got some new play dough for her birthday 🙂

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