As an Early Childhood professional I know what a great tool playdough is for helping to improve the fine motor skills of preschool and kindergarten age children. When Alton's daily note the other day said that he had a great time playing with playdough at daycare that day though, I though "Yeah. Right. Playdough with 1 year olds? If I gave Alton playdough to play with right now all he would do is throw it and try to eat it." Athena heard me tell John about it on the phone though and wanted to give it a try with him. Alton's big sissy is always looking out for him:) We gave it a whirl and I was pleasantly shocked!
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| He had a great time ripping it all up into little bits. Talk about a good fine motor exercise! Expecially for a boy! |
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| We had minimal eating attempts. |
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| Of coarse banging the container on the table was great fun. |
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| Looking adorable while trying to get the lid back on the can:) |
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| Dumping the pieces out of the can... |
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| ...and then loading them back in again and again turned out to be tons of fun too:) |
Now I"m a believer and realize you can do playdough with a rowdy, 'high energy' one year old boy. He sat nice and played with it for at least 10 minutes! We'll be doing it again very soon:)
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