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December 19, 2014

Making Play Dough Cookies: Scissor Practice & Creative Play

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.

This post is part of the Creative Preschoolers series. Please make sure to see what other fun scissor skill activities they have come up at the end of this post.

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 Turtle-Scissor Practice by Artsy Momma
Paper Plate Hair Cutting Activity by Pink Stripey Socks
Paper Straw Snowflakes by I Heart Crafty Things
Paper Banner Preschool Craft an Cutting Practice by Handmade Kids Art

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

Filed Under: Creative Preschoolers, Fine Motor Skills, Motor Skills, Play, Play Dough, Preschool, Scissor Skills, Uncategorized 8 Comments

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Comments

  1. Rachel Nipper says

    December 19, 2014 at 10:46 pm

    This looks so fun! I am in love with your marbled playdough too. It looks awesome!

    Reply
    • Katie says

      December 20, 2014 at 5:40 am

      Thanks so much Rachel! The marbled play dough was all my daughters doing. She got some new play dough for her birthday ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  2. PinkStripeySocks says

    December 19, 2014 at 11:00 pm

    Looks like a really fun way to practice cutting with scissors! ๐Ÿ˜‰ I also like the marbled play dough!

    Reply
    • Katie says

      December 20, 2014 at 5:41 am

      Thanks so much PinkStripeySocks! I liked the marbled play dough too, especially because it had tiny sparkles in it ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  3. Jennifer - The Deliberate Mom says

    December 20, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Katie says

      December 20, 2014 at 3:35 pm

      Hi Jennifer, Love it! This activity definitely had my name all over it too… The decorating part was my favorite, lol ๐Ÿ™‚ I hope you have a great weekend too!

      Reply
  4. Gude @HodgePodgeCraft says

    December 22, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    Love this – such gorgeous pictures!
    Thanks for sharing at #Pintorials ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
    • Katie says

      December 23, 2014 at 3:23 pm

      Thanks so much for visiting and the sweet comment and pin ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply

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