How To Keep Play Dough Fresh

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Keeping playdough moist & organized
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Our kids play with playdough on a daily or at least tri-weekly basis. We love it. It is a great way to integrate fine motor skills, creativity and so many other skills. We use it to make letters, make people, make "monsters" & more.
I often use it when I am making dinner- I put the kids at the table with our play-dough box & they get to go crazy with their creations!

Our play-dough box (purchased at wal-mart) saves me time, frustration & work! Its simple, easy & we love it.

In our play-dough box, I have:
A cheap, but heavy lined tablecloth (I got this one on clearance at Wal-mart a year ago for about $2.00) I use it for everything. Do you want to paint? Sure! Lets put down the tablecloth. Do you want to use play-dough? Sure! Lets put down the tablecloth. Do you want to color a picture with markers? Sure! Lets put down the tablecloth. You get the picture.
* See below for my EASY cleanup tips!

I also keep the kids play-dough toys in here: Keeping Play-dough moist 006
Anything that I think would be fun to use with play-dough goes into this box. (Cheese spreaders, pretend scissors, some cookie cutters, a plastic knife…)

I hate those little play-dough containers, so I take the play-dough out as soon as we open them. I keep all of our play-dough in an air-tight container instead of the original containers. keeping playdough moist 2 001 To keep it extra moist, you could put it into a Ziplock baggie first & then into the container, but I want something that is LESS work for me, so this the container is easy for the kids to clean-up. Remember, we are always (teaching them to be responsible, independent adults)
This is simple. We put it all into one box. Dump it out. Play. Put it back. Done!

Time to play!!
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When we are done with the play-dough, the kids just throw it ALL back into the box. The play-dough goes into its container & into our play-dough box. The toys & tools go back in. They are done! It took all of two minutes!

* To clean up the tablecloth, I grab all four corners, gather them up and take it out onto our back porch & shake it off. (I shake it over the banister into the yard) Done! That took me about 20 seconds. I bring it back in, fold it up or roll it up & put it back into our play-dough box. Neatness not required! 🙂

I keep the box in our pantry on a shelf. It is out of the kid's reach (Only our older boys can get it, but they know to ask first).

I hope this helped in keeping your playdough moist & organized!

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