Adoughma (AH-dough-MAH) provides hands-on sensory education for all ages and abilities through large-scale play-dough events and professional development for educators, educational leaders, and parents. Adoughma is an accessible, sensory-friendly way to play for celebrations, classrooms, and communities.

Celebrate the holidays with Adoughma and make your own dough at home!

Ask us about bringing an Adoughma dough set up to your event, classroom or community! Gluten-free, allergen-sensitive dough available upon request!

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Why dough?

Dough has many therapeutic benefits for all ages, in early childhood for growing and developing hands and later in life to strengthen and care for older hands.

Playing with dough can strengthen hand muscles, improve dexterity, flexibility and blood circulation to reduce stiffness and swelling.

Dough play can also help young children develop their pre-academic fine motor skills to make learning to write and cutting with scissors even easier to develop.

Dough is also an important sensory support tool to help regulate the body’s nervous system. Squishing, shaping and squeezing dough provides proprioceptive input, a nutritious sensory need for many children who struggle with self-regulation and sensory integration. Having this sensory need met enables children to feel calm, focused and ready to learn.

Why play?

Play is the work of children and Adoughma dough is perfect for playing! Adoughma dough is small-batch, home-made, high-quality, smooth dough for playing. Gluten-free, allergen-sensitive dough available upon request!

People of all ages and abilities love to play and shape dough. Adoughma dough set ups display colorfully vibrant and natural materials to spark creative, open-ended, process-oriented play that hones a child’s sense of discovery, curiosity and creativity. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children spend at least 60 minutes a day in open-ended play.

Dough play contributes to social/emotional learning.

A dough play set up is shared. All materials are communal and passed from person to person. Children practice their communication skills to ask for what they need and practice their patience by waiting for a tool to become available. Cognitive and critical thinking skills are often employed as children labor on their creations by trying different tools and engaging in a creative trial and error process.