Playing is becoming one of the fun activities for your Kids. One of the fun games for kids is the playdough game. This game is a type of clay toy that is played by making it into various shapes. Playdough is not only an exciting game, but it also provides many benefits for the growth and development of your Kids.

Benefits of Playing Playdough

Do your Kids enjoy playing playdough, Moms? Well, it turns out there are many benefits to this game. What are the benefits? Let's take a look at the explanation down below, Moms!

1. Develop Fine Motor Skills

When your Kids play with playdough and makes various shapes, it means your Kids have already begun to build strength in their tiny hands. Activities such as pressing, rolling, or leveling the playdough can help your Kids develop muscles in their hands. This is useful for training fine motor skills, such as holding a pencil or using scissors.

2. Provides a Soothing Effect

Squeezing the playdough also helps soothe, release excess energy, increase focus, and express your Kids' emotions. Moms may give this game can when the Kids start showing tantrum symptoms. Try to ask them to sit down and play with the playdough they have, and watch their attitude change.

3. Encourage Children's Creativity

Creating a particular form of playdough also helps encourage your Kids to develop their imagination and make them more innovative.

4. Improve Hand-Eye Coordination

When playing playdough, your child may be attracted to using other tools such as cake cutters, playdough molds, and so on. These tools that they use can develop coordination between the hands and the eyes. They will manage various ways to make the originally shapeless playdough become shaped as they wishes.

5. Improve Cognitive Ability

Playing playdough can also be a tool that helps Moms to teach children counting, shapes, descriptions, and more. However, Moms, make sure to always accompany your Kids when playing!

How to Create a Safe Playdough Soap For Your Kids

Playdough is certainly not cheap, right, Moms! Especially if Moms bought it in bulk. To save time and make play activities more fun with your little one, Moms can try making their own playdough at home. How to do it? Let's take a look more below Moms! Moms, before making playdough, let's prepare first the materials needed.

Materials needed:

• Kodomo Body Wash
• Cornstarch
• Food Coloring
• Coconut Oil
• Teaspoon

How to Play Playdough Soap

1. Make a dough by mixing and kneading 6 teaspoons of cornstarch and 3 teaspoons of Kodomo Bodywash (pat corn: Kodomo Bodywash = 2:1).
2. Add Kodomo Bodywash if the dough is too hard and/or add cornstarch if the dough is too liquid.
3. After achieving the desired texture, drip 3-4 drops of coconut oil on the dough.
4. Add 2-3 drops of desired food coloring (use less color if you want a more pastel color or use more color if you want a darker color).
5. Please repeat steps 1-4 to create a Playdough Soap assortment using another dye.
6. Playdough Soap is finished and ready to play.

Well, by making playdough soap, Moms can also at the same time teach your Kids to wash their hands in a more fun way.

After making the playdough soap, also make sure Moms cleans your Kids' hands with Kodomo Antibacterial Wipes.  Kodomo  Antibacterial Wipes are proven to kill germs and bacteria in just 5 seconds. In addition, Aloe Vera and Tea Tree Oil are suitable to cleanse your children's skin.