Cutting the Dough

Materials Needed:

• play dough

• plastic knives or pizza wheel

Directions:

• Make play dough pancakes

• cut the pancakes with a plastic knife or pizza wheel, with your pointer finger along the top of the knife

• try to cut ten different shapes

Goal:

• arches of the hand

Modifications:

• be sure the knife is being held correctly, wth the pointer finger on top of the knife, and thumb and middle finger gripping the knife. Ring and pinky should be stabilized in palm of hand