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Little Big Dough, Yarm (2026)

21/03/2022

EASTER! 🐣🐰

Looking for a sugar free treat to keep the little ones entertained over the holidays? Our Easter sensory play dough kits are £8! More pics on todays stories! We have had a little packaging change up as sadly the only boxes are no longer available. However all the dough now comes on recyclable, reusable plastic tubs. These will be going live on Etsy this week: if you’d like to order before please pop me a DM on here!

Kits contain:
200g Pot of scented dough
Square of artificial grass
1 x Fluffy Easter chick
2 x Stemmed flowers
Easter themed cookie cutter
Sensory shaker egg
Fillable plastic egg
Wooden egg cut outs
Carrot that can be taken apart, put back together - great for little hands!
Sequins
Pom poms
Pipe cleaners
Coloured straws

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03/03/2022

PLANNING 🧠📝 Day 3 of the challenge.

I’ve had a bit of a nightmare since Christmas. The boxes I previously used for my kits are no longer available. Hence an absence of products. I feel like Ive spent soooooo long looking at, ordering and testing out a multitude of alternatives😩 I’m desperate to keep the kit costs as low as possible to make them affordable but this has made for a big challenge as every similar alternative has been way more expensive. So I’ve been planning a compromise! Going forward boxes will be cardboard BUT all dough will be in pots. PLUS I’m also looking at providing the option to upgrade to a plastic box should you wish to pay the extra. Hopefully offering the best of both.

I’ve been inundated with party bag orders recently keeping me super busy. I love planning and confirming themes, it’s been so much fun ☺️ In addition to this I’ve also been planning for Easter kits! Launching soon!!! 🐣🐰

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02/03/2022

BRAND VALUES 🦄🤖 This is day 2 of the challenge. I hope some some of these really shine though with my products

💛 Educational but fun! It can be really hard to get your child to sit down and engage in learning tasks. I know my little one is so distracted by toys and Tv at home she’ll run a mile if I said we’re going to sit and practice counting for an hour! Instead, I say do you want to get the playdough out? Crazy cheers all round 🙌🏼 I can then ask her to count how many shapes she can cut from one piece of dough, pretend to be bakers and ask her to make me 4 cupcakes. We can discuss weights and comparisons. All the time strengthening those little hand muscles! If you have read my previous posts you’ll know there are many educational triggers from dough play. Best of all the little ones just think they are having fun!
💛 Value for money! I’m a mum myself and toys and gifting can get expensive. I love toys that can be used in a variety of ways. The kits themselves can obviously be used as intended but afterward the cookie cutters can be washed and used for baking, the figures can be used in other role play games, lots of the loose parts are suitable for arts and crafts and the boxes and dough pots can be reused to store other items!
💛 A welcoming friendly place! I hope this brand always feels happy, welcoming, supportive and approachable. I am always so grateful for every purchase and welcome any feedback good or bad. The good stuff makes me do a little happy dance and the bad only helps me grow and improve our products. I love seeing all your pics not only of your dough but you life on the grid and chatting and getting to know you all. I have met so many super cool virtual friends through Little Big Dough! 🥰

Wishing you all a lovely middle of the week. It’s freezing up north but the sun is shining.🌞

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01/03/2022

MARCH MEET THE MAKER!

I’ve been a little bit absent since Christmas (where did the last two months go?! 🤷🏼‍♀️) So decided the best way to get back into the swing of thing was to join in with the challenge set up by

Todays post is Day 1: You and your work

So here’s a pic of some recent goody bags! There will be more of these coming to my shop soon. They make great party favours for any occasion or simply for a little treat. Priced at £5 each!

If your new, here’s a little about me!

I’m a mum who is passionate about children learning through creative mediums that they find enjoyable and fun.

I have a full time job and run this business as a little side hustle!

I love easy cooking, tray bakes and the slow cooker are my family saviours 🙌🏼

I don’t go “out out” as much as I’d like but when I do mines a Margarita!🍸

I love a bargain as many of my friends will verify!

Christmas is my absolute favourite time of the year. I just love the magic of it all 🥰

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party ideas

14/01/2022

PARTY BAGS! 🥳 Getting lots of enquiries about party bags at the moment and while the Etsy store is still closed for a post Christmas re-stock we are taking party bookings still. So thought id do a post with some details!

🎈Party bags are £5 each plus p&p and I also offer free local collection from Yarm TS15.

🎈The more notice the better! The more notice I get means I can source pieces cheaper meaning you get better items in the bags! I can do most themes given enough notice. Please don’t think your asking too far ahead, I love an organised mama!

🎈I take a 50% deposit on ordering and the balance to be paid the week of posting.

🎈Personalised tags come as standard and are designed by myself.

🎈Each party bag contains a 100g pot of dough a key piece like a figure or shaped cutter and a selection of loose themed parts.

🎈Due to the custom nature of party bags they are not listed on Etsy so please send me a private message with your enquiry.

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11/01/2022

COLOUR MIXING!! 🙀 Love it? Hate it? Kids just love to squish all that dough into one big mixed ball don’t they! I remember the first time we used play dough in the house and my other half let our little girl mix all the colours! The horror on my face! His reply “is it hard to take apart?” Are you serious?!! 🤣🤣🤣

Anyway, mummy meltdown out the way and with a determined 4 year old by my side I finally decided to embrace the mix! You will often find a ball of mixed dough in our kits! But we promised it won’t be a mix that turns brown 😆🙈 Children love it and it’s actually a great way of learning!

🧠 Mixing colours uses scientific thinking. Children learn to observe, predict and compare and the experiment with cause and effect. What will happen if I mix these two colours together? How much white do I need to add to make pink?

🧮 They use problem solving skills for when the colour didn’t turn out exactly as they had hoped or expected.

🔢Maths skills are used to decided to add more or less and measuring how much colour should be added.

🖐🏼 Those little hand muscles get a good workout too with all the squishing and mixing belong to build on fine motor skills.

🌈 We can also build on language skills using descriptive works like lagoon green, fire red, plum purple.

So now here at LBD we say don’t fear the mix, embrace it!!

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05/01/2022

SUPERHEROES! 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ Coming soon! Little sneak peak of a new theme on the way! Also, let’s remember, not all superheroes wear capes. All you mums, dads, grandparents, aunties, uncles helping to raise our future little heroes need just as much credit. If you needed to hear it today. Your doing amazing! 👏🏼🤩

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04/01/2022

BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO REALITY! 🍎📚📝🐧 Most of our little people are heading back to school or childcare today while we head on back to the routine, whatever that might look like for you. Ready to get back at it I thought I’d share these gorgeous little party bags we put together at the end of last year for the little beauty .and.me 🥰🦄 Head to her story highlights to see all the fabulous local businesses that supplied for the event! 🎂🥳

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22/12/2021

THANK YOU! Before the craziness of the next few days I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has liked, shared, commented, said a kind word or purchased from us this year! 🥰 Lots more fun post for your little ones coming in the new year! 💌📫 We are so excited to be doing our first ever Easter 🐣 and we even have some little Valentines goody bags planned! 💖 Pack them off to nannies with their play dough while you have a date night! 😆 Themes coming soon include Space 👩🏼‍🚀🚀 Cake shop 🧁🍰 Superhero’s 🦹🏻🦸🏼 Jungle 🐆🐘 and Frozen ❄️☃️ We are having a slight packaging change up due to some supply issues 😩 so taking a little extended break over Christmas to get it all sorted but will be back very soon! We hope you all have a holly jolly Christmas 🎅🏻🎄🎁☃️

20/12/2021

A BIG hello 👋🏼 To all our new followers! We are so happy to have you 🥰 I started LBD following my own daughters love of play dough. Though I found she never played much with the parts in commercial kits often the mechanics were too hard for her little hands to operate and one day while having a kitchen draw clear out I gave her a tub of buttons to add to her play and was amazed by how long she sat making play dough cookies and cupcakes and decorating them with the buttons.🧁I soon added sequins and she added her own characters from her toy box. I’m always amazed by how cleverly children can use their imagination to mix and match play parts and this is why LBD was born!🧠Though our kits do contain plastics I’m absolutely about play that is value for money and by that we try to include parts that are reusable, versatile and in turn sustainable long term. From the kits the craft parts can be reused when making pictures and models while children continue to express their creativity through art. The cookie cutters can of course be washed and used in your home baking, weighing and measuring ingredients is great for maths skills 🔢 and doing this together is brilliant for one on one bonding time with your child. We always remember someone’s home baking from when we were a child. Let it be the cookies baked you made together 🍪 The figures can be used alongside any role play game they might play with other toys in their play cupboard. My little girls will happily use a princess figure alongside an action man some woodern blocks and a cardboard box house! Their big imaginations simply don’t care for rules! We have lots of new themes coming in the new year! Swipe to see some of this years past themes! 🌈🦄🎪🤖🦺🐯🦋

13/12/2021

DO YOU WANNA BUILD A DOUGHMAN?! ☃️❄️🌨 Due to a Christmas party cancellation I have a small amount of these left for local collection! I’m sorry no postals until the new year as I can’t guarantee they will arrive in time for Christmas 😭 Such a simple activity for little hands but a fantastic one for getting those little muscles working to build those fine motor skills. ✋🏼Shovelling and kneading the dough, using different finger grips to push in the sticks, wrap the scarves and press in the tiny buttons to make the little snow dude! 😎 Play dough is always a recommended learning tool by early year’s professionals for very good reason and they will be super proud of themselves when they see the end result! Kits come packed in our icey style holo bags, contain a 100g pot of scented dough and loose parts to make your snowman. DM to order. Our most popular theme to date! 📬

13/12/2021

CHRISTMAS BAKERY! 👨‍🍳🎅🏻👨‍🍳🎅🏻 Due to a party cancellation I have a small amount of these available for local collection! I’m sorry no postals until the new year as I can’t guarantee they will arrive in time for Christmas 😭 The gingerbread scented dough makes you feel like these are fresh from the oven! Packed with a gingerbread cookie cutter, eyes and buttons to decorate and have you ever seen anything cuter than a mini play dough piping bag?! Just snip the end don those aprons and your little one is ready to play master pastry chef! They almost look, and smell, like the real deal 🙌🏼 DM to order 📬

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