Mother's Day Craft Ideas for Toddlers - Playdough Flowers

Mother’s day is a fun day to honor moms. Our Mother’s Day craft ideas for toddlers will let kids enjoy the special day with their moms by bonding and doing fun activities. Check out the step-by-step instructions for this sensorial playdough flowers activity.

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Playdough Flowers Mother's Day Craft Ideas for Toddlers Sensorial Worksheets (2-4 Year Olds)

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Children receive various bits of knowledge through sensory stimulation. This helps them develop skills and gives children an experience that encourages them to interact with the environment for physical and psychological development.

This technique helps develop behaviors that enforce independence and interaction with others, giving way to a wiser knowledge that encourages their learning process.

One technique is to stimulate children with different materials and textures in an instructive environment to experiment and interact with their environment. That allows children to obtain a specific perception determined by a mental image of nature. The setting is a moldable material that develops fine and sensory-motor skills, materialized through their fingers and hands, stimulating independence.

In this setting, children identify that they are surrounded by elastic things on which they can build with different textures and colors. This allows them to obtain abilities or skills for their sensory and cognitive development.

That means that children, through sensory stimulation, manage to understand the world around them to adapt to it because the brain is prepared to receive the stimuli perceived by each of the senses. In this process, new mental structures promote the development of different skills such as the precision of hand movements which facilitates operations such as writing, reading, and mathematics.

The following activity is designed for children to develop their skills through a relationship with their environment. It can be done in a natural place or at home for parents to observe and supervise the children’s abilities and independence, thus strengthening the affective bond.

This Mother’s Day craft ideas for toddlers activity also helps children develop their creativity and critical thinking processes such as attention and memory.

THEME: MOTHER’S DAY CRAFT IDEAS FOR TODDLERS

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: Sensory stimulation

Age: 2-4-year-old children

Goal: Through this Mother’s Day craft ideas for toddlers activity, children will stimulate the sense of touch and their hand and finger movements.

Difficulty level: Intermediate. This Mother’s day craft activity is designed for children to do autonomously and independently by following instructions.

Skills:

Eye-hand coordination
Precision in hand and finger movements
Texture recognition
Self-reliance
Affectivity
Autonomy

MATERIALS

A tray
Play-Doh of different colors
Aflowerdrawing (previously made)
A container

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

(ADULT SUPERVISION AND ALLERGIES CHECK)

Step 1:

Mold the Play-Doh so that children explore and recognize its texture.

Mold the Play-Doh. Mother's Day craft ideas for toddlers

Step 2:

Place and press a small ball of Play-Doh in the drawing center so that the child starts from inside out, creating a logical organization in his/her mind.

Step 3:

With both hands and fingers, remove Play-Doh pieces one-by-one to strengthen the pincer grip, applying pressure to fill the flower petals with it, giving the child freedom to choose the colors.

Applying pressure to the Play-Doh pieces to fill the flower petals with it. Mother's Day craft ideas for toddlers.

ACTIVITY RESULT

A flower made with play-doh using different motor techniques. Fun Mother’s Day craft idea for toddlers.

HOW TO DEVELOP THIS MOTHER’S DAY CRAFT IDEA ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 2 YEARS OLD

You can do this Mother’s Day craft ideas for toddlers activity with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, children can make the Play-Dohballs with their parents’ help, letting them perceive different textures during the production process.

Adults must ensure that children are not allergic to any ingredient. In this way, children will carry out a Mother’s day activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 4 YEARS OLD

You can do this craft idea activity with older children. To increase the difficulty level, children can make figures with dimensions using objects and different materials to test their creativity and the precision of their hands and fingers movements. In this way, children will carry out a motor skill activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

WATCH THE STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS HERE

VIDEO DESCRIPTION – A FLOWER MADE WITH PLAYDOUGH FUN MOTHER’S DAY CRAFT IDEA FOR TODDLERS

In this Mother’s Day craft ideas for toddlers video, you will find the step-by-step of the “A FLOWER MADE WITH PLAY-DOH” activity, designed for children from 2 to 4 years old. They will make a flower with Play-Doh of different colors.

This craft idea activity will allow children to develop skills such as Eye-hand coordination, the precision of hand and finger movements, texture recognition, self-reliance, affectivity, and autonomy.

The materials needed to carry out the craft idea activity are a tray, Play-Doh of different colors, and a flower drawing (previously made), and a container. (ADULT SUPERVISION AND ALLERGIES CHECK)

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Liliana is a Licensed Montessori teacher known for her passion and dedication to education. She's been a teacher in the United States for many years, and she truly believes that education is the key to making the world a better place because today's students are tomorrow's leaders. Her experience with Toddlers, Beginners, VPK with Montessori methodology approach; Kindergarten, and first grade made her an authority and trusted resource. Liliana's family taught her important qualities like love, a positive attitude, strong motivation, and leadership. These values have guided her on her journey to becoming a professional and expert teacher. Her mission is to help children grow and contribute to a brighter future for the country.