Halloween Play Dough
This fun Halloween playdough activity is easy to set up and offers lots of opportunities for play and learning.
Preschoolers and older kids will love exploring some creepy, spooky, but not scary ideas with this Halloween play dough activity tray, made items you probably already have at home, plus some fun free printable playdough accessories!
Play dough offers so many opportunities for learning and practicing skills, and this Halloween playdough idea also allows kids to explore the spooky and maybe scary side of Halloween in a fun and non-threatening way.
Halloween Play Dough Activity
Ages:
2 years +
Learning Areas:
fine motor, sensory play
Set up:
easy, 5 mins
There are so many fun Halloween items in the shops at the moment which would be great for a Halloween play dough set, but you can probably find quite a few things around the house that are also perfect.
For our Halloween play dough we used:
- Pipe cleaners
- wool
- black cardboard cut into strips
- beads, sequins and pom poms
- some plastic fangs (left over from last year’s Friday the 13th party)
- some glow in the dark bats (also left over from the party)
I also made some fun, spooky, eyes and bones that we printed out, laminated, cut up, and added to our Halloween play dough, that you can download below and print for your playdough set up.
We halved our easy microwave play dough recipe to make small batches of dough in various colours. We got these bright vibrant colours by using paints to colour the dough instead of food dye.
I wasn’t sure what my preschoolers would make with this collection of Halloween goodies, but they were very keen to start creating.
The eyes and the fangs were the favourite accessories and soon the table was covered in monsters!
Tips and Extension Ideas.
- Use lots of descriptive language while playing such as squishy, round, soft, spikey ,scary, creepy, funny etc.
- Include some math concepts by asking the kids to count how many eyes or legs their creature has, or by getting the kids to arrange their creatures from biggest to smallest.
- Encourage your kids to name their monster or creature and tell you where they live and what they like to eat.
- Older child might like to write down some facts about their creature, or write a creative story about them.
- You could even take a photo of each monster and display it with their names and interesting facts about them.
Free Printable Halloween Playdough Accessories.
This set of Halloween playdough accessories includes four pairs of eyes, and lots of bones!
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
Download the Halloween Playdough Accessories
Click here to download the eyes and bones playdough accessories.
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
More Halloween Playdough Fun!
If your kids love Halloween and they love playdough, then they will love our Halloween Playdough Mats!
You can buy this set of six Halloween play dough mats in the Playful Printable Shop for just $2.50!
There are six different play dough mats in this set, ready to print and play.
More Halloween Activities for Kids!
For even more Halloween fun try one of these fun ideas:
- Make some more playdough monsters with these free printable monster playdough mats!
- These free printable Halloween mazes make a great quick and easy activity for kids
- Make a pumpkin face with loose parts, or craft items with these fun free printable pumpkin templates.
- Fill your haunted house with lots of spooky creatures with these fun haunted house drawing prompt and matching writing page printable.
- This Halloween I Spy Find and Colour page is a great print and go activity!
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My blended preK class would love this! Ty