Oct. 03,2025
The playdough Willa and B made for B & E to take home. While waiting to get picked up E demonstrates her imagination and sensory play while engaging with playdough with her baby doll. As E carefully pressed the doll’s hands into the playdough to create hand prints, E shows an emerging awareness of cause-and-effect and symbolic play. This interaction supports E’s fine motor development, hand-eye coordination, and creativity. It also highlighted her nurturing disposition, as she included her doll in the activity, reflecting early social-emotional skills and the ability to imitate real-life caregiving behaviors.
I would like to revisit this with E by using different textures for her like Clay, sand, or even slime to recreate hand prints and show her this photo of E creating the hand print. “What else can make a print?” “What was your baby doing?”
