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Spring Garden Playdough

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Our snow is melting and we are looking forward to planting our flower and vegetable gardens!  While we wait for the last of the Winter weather to disappear I thought it would be fun to create a Spring Garden Playdough kit complete with flowers, seeds and vegetables to plant.  My girls went crazy for this kit!

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Spring Garden Playdough Kit

WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE SPRING GARDEN PLAYDOUGH

This post contains affiliate links.  Craftprojectideas.com provided me free of charge with flower stickers and craft sticks for this post.  

homemade green playdough recipe (2 cups flour, 2 cups water, 1 cup salt, 4 teaspoons cream of tartar, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, green food coloring or green liquid watercolor)
foam glitter flower stickers and leaves
craft popsicle sticks
orange and green markers
yellow construction paper
green pony beads
low temp glue gun
interlocking notched craft sticks

AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT

dramatic play
scientific exploration (how plants grow)
language development
color exploration
fine motor development
creativity

TIME FOR FUN WITH THE SPRING GARDEN PLAYDOUGH KIT!

Begin by making up a batch of homemade playdough.  You can see our full instructions here.  For our Spring Garden Playdough Kit I wanted to explore planting vegetables and flowers.  I glued the foam glitter flower and leave stickers to the craft sticks. I also wanted to focus on vegetables that grow under the ground so I used a green and orange marker on the craft sticks to create carrots. I drew suns on yellow paper, cut them out and glued them to the craft sticks.  I included green beads for the seeds. Best part?  All the prep work took less than 10 minutes.

Spring Garden Playdough MaterialsI introduced the Spring Garden Playdough by sorting the carrots, flowers, beads, playdough and interlocking notched craft sticks (for fences) in a plastic chip and dip tray.

Spring Garden Playdough KitMy girls squealed with delight when they saw our newest playdough kit!  They immediately got to work exploring the supplies.

playing with the Spring Garden Playdough

Luca loved the idea of planting the carrots underground and then harvesting them.

playing with the Spring Garden Playdough

Such a fun morning with playdough!

Spring Garden Playdough

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  2. Natasha says

    This is so cute and I’m pretty sure full of fun. I have them flower foam stickers and was wondering what I was going to do with them.

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