Lolo’s Lemonade Playdough

How adorable is the presentation of this Lemon Scented play dough. The shame is that even at just $1 no one wanted to buy it so it was all given away. Want to know more about the Lolo Lemonade Stand then check out the blog LoLovie.

My daughter has bugged me for a Lemonade stand since she read a book that featured it. Last Christmas she sat outside selling handmade Christmas cards and spicy nuts. Her piggy bank grew to $30 but her ideas grew bigger. I have since had to calm her desire to sell anything/everything out on the street. She once packaged up a heap of copyrighted magazine pages and wondered why I would not let her sell them. Instead Grandma bought all her supply and kept the plagiarism secret in the family.

Looking for more Lemonade stand props and pretend play? Check these out.

Download our free Lemon themed printable Activity Pack – Full of lemon-themed activities that you can print off. This file is available for free in our online store.

I don’t know why Pinterest just suddenly decided I needed to see all the content about task cards and task boxes for kids, but these ideas are great for the classroom to keep in centers or have on hand for early finishers. You can also use them at home as quiet bags or boxes for kids to use when younger siblings might be sleeping, or in the car for a non-screen activity.

Let’s take a look at some fine motor skill task cards and how you can use them to teach kids skills while they play.

Pre-K Pages has a nice set of playdough task cards you can use in boxes or bags with a little tray (or they can just work on the table if they are sitting at a table). Working with clay or play dough is a great fine motor skill exercise, or you can add these to your playdough center if you have one to give them a little bit of direction while they work.

Teaching Mama has a bunch of great ideas for fine motor task boxes, from practicing working a glue bottle to threading beads, using clothespins or scissors, dropping water, finger painting and more. There’s a free printable that shows all the task options she talks through in the post if you want to make your own little boxes, or just keep these ideas on hand when you’re ready to add some fine motor fun to your days.

One of the ideas she mentions in that post is working with a hole punch, and Early Learning Ideas has a whole bunch (the urge to write “hole bunch” is strong) of ideas for printables that help kids practice hole punching, whether it’s a strip with circles on it for them to punch or pictures that include circles for punching, these ideas make it a little more fun to practice this important skill.

My Happy Place Teaching has a whole post about using fine motor task boxes in kindergarten, and her paid resource includes more than 100 task ideas with printables. But if you don’t need 100 boxes you can still get some good ideas from this post about different tasks to include and why and when you can use them. She also mentions using them in the morning while you’re busy with kids coming in at different times, which is a great idea.

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