Today, try making homemade play dough with your child. Check out the video below to see how! We typically bake once a week at school with our speech therapist and your children love to help! They have had a lot of practice measuring and adding ingredients to a bowl. They are also very good at mixing ingredients together. After you’ve made your play dough, encourage your child to:
- Roll small balls
- Roll long snakes
- Smash a large ball until it is flat
- If you have cookie cutters they can cut shapes out of the dough once its flat
All of these will help strengthen your child’s hand muscles and develop control of their fingers.
