Need a play dough recipe? Salt dough recipe, bread dough recipe, no cook play dough recipe?
How about a year’s worth of playdough play ideas – including math, literacy and creative play.
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Love this fab play dough ebook & love your Blog! So many great creative ideas for all ages… that’s why I had to vote for you at the MAD Awards!
Catherine, thank you so much for your lovely comment. I’ve been over at your blog today and thinking how wonderful your ideas are. I love the squiggle paintings!
What a great idea for an ebook, I love the beautiful photos. You have my vote!
Thank you Caz
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Thank you so much for generously making this available to us! I will be sharing this on my blog at some point, if that’s okay with you, but also with my MOMS Club here in Sturbridge, MA, USA. We just wrote a cookbook with a loaded arts and crafts camp section. I would have loved to put some of these in the cookbook! Good work.
Hi Jena, please do share and use it. So pleased you like it.
This is fab! Thank you! Moo is just getting into playdough and I was wondering about making my own. Thanks for all the great ideas.
Hi Bumbling – hope Moo has fun!!
Oooh, an e book – how exciting! I’ll share the link on my facebook page.
Thanks Jenny – please do pass it on
These activities are great to build fine motor skills as well as create some wonderful things. I fancy having a go with marzipan then I could eat it after wards! Thank you so much for supporting the RC! Julia
Marzipan Julia? Genuis!!
So fun. We often have our hands in dough of one kind or another….
Wow! This is really great.
ohhhhh, this looks great! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling sunday!
Thanks for the great ideas! This will come in handy this summer.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! We also had different extracts to our play-dohs…so we have mint-smelling or coconut…or orange. Stopping by from Science Sunday!
Jessy
Thanks Jesse: I think the scents are really great for adding a different dimension to the dough/
Stopping by from We Play! Thanks for the ideas!
Excellent! Thank you so much for sharing. My youngest loves playdough and I’ve been looking for ways to extend the play with her. This is great
Hey Cathy! I love your ebook and am excited to try some of the materials in with the playdough, as well as the recipes themselves!
I featured the ebook on It’s Playtime this week! I did a ’roundup’ of play recipes and you’re the ‘big’ feature this week
Jamie
Thanks Jamie!
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I thought I’d already commented here, but I wanted to say thanks for a great e-book. We love it!
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LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!! If you want you can share this at Thrity Thursday this week also, I just saw this linked up to No Time For Flash Cards and when I saw the site I KNEW it would be awesome. Linking now!
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Thanks so much for linking up at Thrifty Thursday!
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Very very nice.
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Hi I just found your blog and would love a copy of the ultimate play dough guide. However when I click on the link it brings me back to this page. Is it available?y 3 year is living play dough right now and I would love some extra ideas.
Hi Lilbitsmomma. The play dough book is not available right now as it’s being updated but you can find lots and lots of play dough ideas in our play dough archive here: http://nurturestore.co.uk/category/play-dough
Hi – i’ve been checking back here for a few months, hoping for an updated play dough book and finally decided to just ask if we have much longer to wait! My boys are getting to that stage and i’m excited at the idea of having different recipes and inspiration just ready to go
Hi Emily. I’m sorry but the update will be a while longer. Did you have a look at our play dough ideas on the blog? You can find them all here: http://nurturestore.co.uk/category/play-dough and my Pinterest has lots of ideas too: http://pinterest.com/cathyjames/playdough/ Hope that gives you some ideas to keep you going!