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24 Printable Play-dough Activity Sheets

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These playdough activities are a great way to teach new skills whilst being play-based learning. Play-based learning appeals to children’s natural curiosity to play and discover.  Playdough is a great medium as it has tactile properties that can help stimulate the brain. Play-based learning provides opportunities for children to actively engage with the dough and use it to create solutions to the printable activity sheets. Playdough is great for invitational play for all ages. How many times have you sat down with playdough and began playing with it as an adult? It has engaging properties. You can even make your own Playdough with these amazing recipes.

Popcorn Counting Play Dough Mats

Donut Playdough Mats for Number Practice {Instant Download Printable}

Alphabet Playdough Mats – Fun with Mama

-at Family CVC Words Play Dough Mats

Goldilocks and The Three Dinosaurs Printable Play Dough Mats

Shapes Playdough Mats

{Free printable} Gingerbread playdough mats – the-gingerbread-house.co.uk

Playdough Flowers With Free Playdough Mat

Number Playdough Mats

Apple Counting Sheets

Decorate a Princess {Instant Download Playdough Mats}

10 free printable playdough mats for fabulous kids fun!

Free Roll A Rainbow Playdough Mat Game

Orange Playdough Sheets

Count to 10 Spider Playdough Mats

Number Playdough Mats|FREE recipe too

FREE Human Body Playdough Mats

Roll-a-Penguin Playdough Mat

Free Dolch Preprimer Sight Words Playdough Mats with Tracing

Construction Counting Mat

4th of July Playdough Mats

Seasons of a Tree Play Dough Activity

Free Printable Spring Themed Play Dough Mats

What to do with the Free Printable Dress Up Dolls Play Dough Mats

 

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Hanukkah Cross Stitch Projects

Hanukkah is a great reason to pull out your cross stitch fabric and thread and stitch up some fun seasonal cross stitch patterns. 

If you have trouble spelling Hanukkah (I know I do!) you’ll want to stitch up the How Do You Spell… project from SKB Cross Stitch Design. This one includes a bunch of different ways to spell the holiday, along with some symbols like a dreidel and menorah. (Technically I think all the ways to spell it are “correct.”) The pattern includes full, fractional and bask titches, and measures 8.5 by 7 inches, or 21.6 by 17.8 cm. It has the date for 2004/5785 but you can easily change the year or leave that part off. 

Another project with some fun word play is the Words to Live By chart from Sam Brie Stitches. This one includes Hanukkah related symbols and word presented crossword puzzle style, which is fun to stitch and to display. The design uses 10 colors and measures 74 by 103 stitches. It’s shown worked on 18 count fabric. 

I may have shared these before, but the Hanukkah patterns from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery are so cute they’re definitely worth sharing again. Happy Hanukkah features a menorah, dreidels, gelt, stars and candles, and it fits in a 6-inch hoop. At 75 by 75 stitches, it comes out to 5.4 inches/13.4 cm on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. They also have this cute little dreidel stamp cross stitch pattern, which is 39 by 49 stitches, or 2.8 by 3.5 inches (about 7 by 9 cm) on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. 

Works By ABC has a lot of great patterns for Hanukkah, but here are just a couple to get you started. The Rules for Dreidel design is fun for kids and adults and shows the different sides of the dreidel and what it means when you land on them. The stitch count is 62 by 94 and its shown worked on 32 count linen. It calls for three colors. I also like this menorah one, which measures 44 by 49 stitches and uses two colors along with coordinating seed beads. On 32 count linen as shown (equivalent to 16 count Aida) it measures 2.75 by 3.1 inches, or almost 7 by 7.8 cm.