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Fish Play Dough

By Shaunna Evans 5 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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While learning about fish I set up this fish play dough invitation so the kids could create their own underwater scenes and stories.

Fish Play Dough Invitation

Get a full week of fish theme lesson plans for 

Home Preschool or your Preschool Classroom.

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Materials

  • Play dough made from the recipe in The Homemade Play Dough Recipe Book and Wilton Icing Colors
  • Rollers from the Melissa & Dough Shape, Model, and Mold set
  • Colored googly eyes
  • Button “scales”
  • Assorted confetti “scales”
  • Fish cutter from the 101-piece Cookie Cutter Set
  • Heart cutters (ours are similar to these, but we found them at Target)

Materials for Fish Playdough

The girls enjoyed using the different cutters to make fish. They also made their own versions of different sea creatures.

Preschool Play Dough-Fish

The rollers let them add different textured designs to the fish.

Making patterns with play dough tools

And they got very creative with the patterns and designs they made with the other loose parts.

Play Dough Fish

The Amazon widget below includes some of the books we’ve been reading.

Visit our ocean theme Pinterest Board for more fish activities and ideas for learning about ocean animals.

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Get a Full Week of Fish Theme Learning and Play

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

   

This set includes active hands-on learning ideas and the following printables:

1) 1-15 Fish and Fish Bowl Counting Mats
2) Uppercase Letter Fish Cards
3) Lowercase Letter Bubble Cards
4) 0-31 Fish Number Cards
5) Fish Patterning and Sorting Cards
6) Fish Roll and Graph Math Game
7) Word Segmenting Fish
8) Shape Fish
9) Fish Word Building Mats
10) Fish Size Ordering and Sorting Cards

Get Your Lesson Plans

Home Preschool Fish Theme Lesson Plans

Preschool Classroom Fish Theme Lesson Plans

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Filed Under: Fine Motor, Invitations to Play, Letter F, Ocean, Preschool, Summer, Toddler Tagged With: fish, play dough

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Comments

  1. Pre-K Teacher Em

    July 25, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    I love this idea. Where did you get that divided container to put everything in?

    Reply
    • Shaunna Evans

      August 3, 2015 at 11:09 am

      We buy our trays from the seasonal tableware section at Walmart, but similar ones are also available at Dollar Tree and some craft stores.

      Reply
  2. Lauren@SAHM I am

    May 27, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    Love this idea! We just made homemade playdough so I will be trying this activity.

    Reply
  3. Dianna @ The Kennedy Adventures

    May 26, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    I love this ocean themed playdough! I can’t wait to give this a try with my littles!

    Thanks for linking up with The Thoughtful Spot! I love this resource and will be sharing on Pinterest!

    Reply
  4. Theres Just One Mommy

    May 26, 2014 at 9:28 am

    Play dough is always so fun! Love the idea of adding beads, etc!

    Reply

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