Apparently September 16th is National Play Doh Day. I thought it would be fun to honor this holiday with a play dough activity at storytime. It just so happens that we had some lovely black play dough left over from summer reading. I love black play dough. There's something so beautiful about it. I decided to go with a moon theme and to call our play dough, moon dough. Before I gave each child his or her glob of dough, I sprinkled blue and purple glitter on the table and let them mash the dough into the glitter. The purple/blue glitter looks so pretty against the black play dough. It's very easy to believe that it could have come from the moon.
To go with our moon theme, I read the books Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle, and Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper.
And here is a picture of our moon dough:
Happy National Play Doh Day!
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