Montessori Monday – Montessori-Inspired Winter Playdough Activities

Winter is a great time for playdough activities with either regular playdough or snow dough. You can easily set up a Montessori-inspired playdough activity on a tray or as a separate playdough table. For ideas on creating Montessori-inspired playdough activities in general, see my original playdough roundup: Montessori-Inspired Playdough Activities 101.

Following are some fun ideas for Montessori-inspired playdough/cloud dough activities using a non-holiday winter theme. The activities that might not be strictly “Montessori” would still work very well with a Montessori-inspired playdough activity tray or table.

Montessori-Inspired Winter Playdough Activities

Glittered Peppermint Winter Play Dough (Photo from Little Wonders’ Days)

Glittered Peppermint Winter Play Dough from Little Wonders’ Days

Snow Playdough Recipe (Photo from NurtureStore)

Snow Playdough Recipe (can include a nature hunt, too) from NurtureStore

Make a Playdough North Pole by Cathy James at Baby Centre

Making Animal Tracks Playdough Activity from The Work Plan

Winter Playdough Painting from Healthy Mama

“Make a Snowman” Playdough from Children’s Garden Montessori Preschool

Snow Play Dough Mats from Moms Have Questions Too

Scented Snowman Playdough from Sugar Aunts

Snow Playdough Tray (Photo from Counting Coconuts)

Snow Playdough from Counting Coconuts

Homemade Snow Dough (Photo from The Imagination Tree)

Snow Dough Recipe for Winter Sensory Play (Photo) and Recipe  for White Playdough from The Imagination Tree

Winter Fun with Snow Dough from Gift of Curiosity

Woodsy Playland with Pine-Scented Play Dough (Photo from Small Potatoes)

Woodsy Playland…With Pine-Scented Playdough from Small Potatoes

Footprints in the Snow (Photo from No Time for Flash Cards)

Footprints in the Snow from No Time for Flash Cards

More Montessori-Inspired Winter Activities

For more Montessori-inspired winter activities, check out these roundup posts:

Montessori-Inspired Winter Activitiesa and  Montessori-Inspired Arctic and Antarctic Unit.

For Valentine’s Day activities, you’ll find lots of Montessori-inspired activities here:

Turning Valentine Crafts into Montessori-Oriented Activities, Montessori-Inspired Valentine’s Day Activities, Kindness Challenge #2 – Montessori-Inspired Kindness, Montessori-Inspired Valentine’s Day Activities (2012), and Montessori-Inspired Valentine Math Trays and Valentine Ideas Blog Hop.

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Notes:

I already published a Carnival of Natural Parenting Post this morning: How to Find Balance after the Holidays. I’ll have two posts tomorrow, too, including my PreK + K Sharing post with links to lots of free printables and ideas for using them to create Montessori-inspired activities. And you’ll find a second post here tomorrow with the 2:1 Conference Speakers’ Tour post for Christian homeschoolers published later in the morning. In my 2:1 Speakers’ Tour post, you’ll learn more about my family and me, information on what I’ll be speaking about at the 2:1 Conference in April, and links to learn about the other speakers, too. There’ll also be a fun Homeschool Blogger Social Media Scavenger Hunt on Tuesday at 8pm EST on Facebook at The 2:1 Conference page!

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