Playdough Center in Preschool Pre-K and Kindergarten

Playdough Center for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten

Play Dough Center

How to set up a playdough Center in your preschool, pre-k, Head Start or kindergarten classroom.

Organizing a Play Dough Center

The picture above shows how the play dough center is organized. There is a tub for each type of tool and they are clearly labeled with pictures and words. Materials are available on a counter so students can stand. Tasks like rolling lend themselves well to a standing position.

Young children don’t have much upper body strength and they usually end up standing or kneeling when they play with dough even if chairs are provided because this position allows them a better angle at which to roll and manipulate the dough.

Homemade Playdough Recipes

You can always make your own playdough to use in your playdough center. This is the BEST DIY homemade playdough recipe that I use all the time.

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Play Dough Resources

The Best Play Dough Tools

1. Textured Rolling Pins
2. Dough Extruders
3. Plastic Dough Scissors
4. Dough Tools
5. Cookie Cutters
6. Alphabet Dough Stampers

What materials do you keep in your play dough center?

Dough Stampers

Check out how this child used dough stampers to stamp numbers in cupcakes- what fun! The silicone cupcake liners are from the dollar store.

This little one is having fun with cookie cutters in the play dough center!

Play Dough Names

Your kids will be learning and having fun while stamping their names in play dough with these alphabet dough stampers!

Cutting Play Dough

Using scissors to cut play dough is excellent cutting practice! These plastic dough scissors are perfect for cutting dough and won’t rust like metal blades will.

Rolling Play Dough

These sturdy, wooden rolling pins are perfect for exercising and strengthening the muscles of the hands, wrists, and shoulders needed for holding and writing with pencils and crayons!

Watch the Video

If your kids like to use play dough in the classroom then check out all my free, printable play dough counting mats.

The Teaching Tribe

Having a play dough station available daily in your classroom is awesome! But let’s face it, play dough can’t make you a better teacher. The best place to discuss teaching best practices and get the support you need is in the Teaching Tribe. We have many printable lessons and on-demand video trainings to help you become the best teacher you can be! If you want to get on the waiting list for the Teaching Tribe, do it soon so you don’t miss the next open enrollment period!

Preschool Learning Center

Have you always dreamed of setting up amazing, self-directed preschool learning center for your classroom…but feel like something is missing? How do you know which centers you need? What should you put in them?