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Patting Pancakes

Squishy Play Dough

Day 23of 180
Week 5of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Learn to pat and flatten play dough into shapes

2

Develop fine motor skills through gentle pressing

3

Understand that God gives us creative 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)

God carefully created our hands to explore, create, and play

📦 Materials Needed

  • Play dough (multiple colors)
  • Play mat or clean surface
  • Optional: cookie cutters
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Let's pat our play dough like pancakes today! Remember how we rolled snakes yesterday? Now we'll make flat shapes!

💭 Review Question: Can you show me how you rolled a play dough snake yesterday?
2Teaching (7 min)

Today in our BibleMouse lesson, we'll learn how to pat play dough flat like pancakes.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Use gentle hands to press play dough
  • Pat softly to make flat shapes
  • Try making different sizes of 'pancakes'
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What shape can you make?
  • Can you make a big pancake or a small one?
3Activity: Pancake Play Dough Patting (8 min)
hands-on

Pat play dough into flat circles like pancakes

📝 Instructions:
  1. Take a ball of play dough
  2. Use your whole hand to pat it flat
  3. Make different sized 'pancakes'
  4. Optional: Use cookie cutters to make shapes
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps child pat play dough

Challenge: Try making play dough pancakes of different thicknesses

4Closing (3 min)

Look at all the wonderful pancakes you made! God gave you amazing hands to create!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did we do with our play dough today?
  • How did you make your pancake?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll poke and pinch our play dough to make new textures!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

PK3 children are developing fine motor skills through tactile play

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use gentle encouragement
  • Let child explore at their own pace
  • Praise effort, not just results
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might press too hard or get frustrated

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Enjoyment of texture and emerging patting skills

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Sing a simple song about making pancakes
  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for play dough mats

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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