Playdate {St.Patrick's Invitation to Play}

Today is St Patricks Day, so we decided to celebrate with a little LuCk Dough. It was a big hit!  When we arrived at Karen's house, Lucas was eagerly waiting at the table with a mountain of dough. Because it's St. Patty's Day, Karen dyed the dough green with a little food coloring. 

We love mixing dough with loose parts. I brought a rainbow of large plastic gems to incorporate into the dough. 

Lucas and Chuck really enjoyed this invitation to play. They both really enjoyed pressing the different shaped gems into the dough. 

If you wanted to add another sensory element to this project, you could mix in some gold glitter to bring a little pot of gold to this rainbow! 

Part way through playing, Lucas requested his trucks to drag through the dough, and Chuck happily brought them into the kitchen to play with.  When we were done, we had fun picking the gems out of the dough to play with again in the future....I'm pretty sure Chuck already has a project in mind.