Play dough printing

We had fantastic fun printing with play dough. It is very squishy and therefore  easy to press patterns into it and then print. My 3 and 8 year old loved it. Plasticine is also great to print with as a bit firmer but as we did not have any we tried play dough.

You will need.....
I batch home made or bought play dough
newspaper to protect your table and aprons
poster paint
paper
paintbrush
old plate or takeaway lid
Bits and bobs from around the house such as fork, stick, shells, cotton reels, old bit of card - anything to press into the playdough to make a pattern
We also did a bit of printing with an old sponge and carved a few spuds too.

When you have pressed the play dough into a shape or squidged it with a shell, gently dunk into the paint on the plate. Spreading your paint fairly thinly on the plate will mean that you don't get too overloaded. Next print onto the paper, as you go the image will change a bit due to the play dough being so soft - but I think this adds a rather nice random appearance.  We also printed with the side of a piece of card to get lines and a carved potato.