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Squeeze and Squish

Squishy Play Dough

Day 21of 180
Week 5of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Explore different ways to manipulate play dough

2

Develop fine motor skills through squeezing and squishing

3

Recognize God's design of strong, capable hands

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 139:14

“I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.”

— Psalm 139:14 (WEB)

Celebrates how God carefully created our hands with amazing abilities to touch, feel, and create

📦 Materials Needed

  • Play dough (multiple colors)
  • Play mats or plastic tablecloth
  • Wet wipes for cleanup
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse art adventure! Let's wiggle our fingers and get ready to explore play dough!

💭 Review Question: What did we do with paper yesterday?
2Teaching (7 min)

Today, we're going to use our strong hands to squeeze and squish play dough. God gave us amazing hands that can do so many wonderful things!

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Look at your hands - God made them special!
  • We can squeeze the play dough
  • We can squish the play dough
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What does the play dough feel like?
  • Can you make the play dough change shape?
3Activity: Squeeze and Squish Exploration (8 min)
hands-on

Explore play dough using different hand movements

📝 Instructions:
  1. Sit at your play mat
  2. Take a piece of play dough
  3. Squeeze the play dough with your whole hand
  4. Squish the play dough with your fingers
  5. Try making different shapes
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps child squeeze play dough

Challenge: Try making simple shapes like balls or snakes

4Closing (3 min)

Clean up our play dough and thank God for our wonderful hands!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did we do with the play dough?
  • How did the play dough feel?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll roll play dough into snake shapes!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Fine motor skills are crucial at this age. Squeezing play dough helps develop hand strength and coordination.

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use encouraging language
  • Allow messy exploration
  • Help if child struggles, but don't do the activity for them
🤔 Common Struggles:

Some children might not want to touch play dough. Be patient and encouraging.

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Ability to squeeze and change play dough shape

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for hand-themed coloring pages
  • Sing a finger-play song about God's creation

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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