Playdough becomes even more exciting when children have the right tools to shape their imagination.
The Cutters Collection from The Children's Lab brings together a variety of themed playdough cutters designed to help children create animals, food, dinosaurs, ocean creatures, princesses, space objects, weather shapes and more. The collection currently features 15 products, with options ranging from themed cutter sets to specialised playdough tools. (THE CHILDRENS LAB)
👉 Explore the complete Dough Cutters Collection
✂️ Why Add Cutters to Playdough Play?
Playdough already gives children plenty of freedom to create, but cutters provide an easy way to introduce recognisable shapes and themes.
Children can:
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Press cutters into playdough
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Create different characters and objects
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Experiment with colours
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Build themed scenes
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Combine multiple shapes into stories
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Practise hand and finger movements
A simple cutter can turn a piece of dough into a dinosaur, rocket, mermaid, farm animal or even a human-body organ.
🐛 Explore a World of Themes
The Children's Lab collection includes a wide range of themed cutters, giving children different worlds to explore. (THE CHILDRENS LAB)
🐞 Bug Explorer Dough Cutters
Bring tiny creatures to life with the Bug Explorer Dough Cutters.
Children can create their own mini bug world and use the shapes for storytelling, nature-themed activities and imaginative play.
🍭 Candy Shop Dough Cutters
Turn playdough into a colourful pretend sweet shop.
Children can create treats, set up their own imaginary shop and practise counting, sorting and pretend shopping.
🚧 Construction Site Dough Cutters
Perfect for little builders who love trucks, construction and big building projects.
Create a pretend construction site and let children design their own building adventure.
🦖 Dinosaur Adventure Dough Cutters
Take playtime millions of years into the past.
Children can create dinosaurs and build prehistoric scenes around them, turning sensory play into a dinosaur adventure.
🐄 Farmyard Friends Dough Cutters
Create a miniature farm filled with animals.
Children can combine the cutters with playdough to build a farm scene and invent stories around their animal characters.
🌲 Forest Animal Dough Cutters
Explore the world of forest animals through hands-on play.
This set provides a natural starting point for conversations about animals, habitats and nature.
❤️ Human Body Organ Eco Cutters
Make science hands-on with anatomical shapes.
Children can create organs and use them to explore basic concepts about the human body.
🐛 Hungry Catepillar Cutter
Create a colourful caterpillar-inspired play scene while exploring nature, colours and sequencing.
🧜♀️ Mermaid Cove Dough Cutters
Dive beneath the sea and create a magical mermaid world filled with underwater adventures.
🌊 Ocean Adventure Dough Cutters
Create ocean creatures and build an underwater world using playdough.
👑 Royal Princess Dough Cutters
Turn playtime into a fairytale with royal and princess-inspired creations.
Children can build castles, characters and magical stories.
🚀 Space Explorer Dough Cutters
Blast off into imaginative space adventures.
Children can create space-inspired objects and use them to build their own cosmic stories.
🧇 Sweet Treats Bubble Waffle Maker
For children who love pretend food play, this tool can turn playdough into imaginative sweet treats.
🌦️ Weather Wonders Dough Cutters
Explore weather through play by creating familiar weather-inspired shapes and scenes.
The collection currently lists these themed cutter sets alongside additional playdough tools. (THE CHILDRENS LAB)
🧠 Learning Through Themed Play
Themed cutters can turn an ordinary playdough session into an opportunity for learning.
🔢 Counting
Create five dinosaurs, three clouds or four farm animals and count them together.
🎨 Colours
Use different dough colours for different shapes and experiment with colour combinations.
🔤 Language
Introduce vocabulary related to each theme.
For example:
Space: rocket, astronaut, planet, star
Ocean: fish, turtle, whale, shell
Farm: cow, chicken, pig, tractor
📖 Storytelling
Create several shapes and ask your child to build a story around them.
A dinosaur might meet a space explorer.
A mermaid might discover a mysterious treasure.
A farm animal might escape from the farm.
The possibilities are endless.
✋ Hands-On Creativity
Using cutters involves more than simply pressing a shape into dough.
Children need to position the cutter, apply pressure and carefully remove the finished shape.
They can then manipulate the creation further by adding details, combining shapes or creating an entire scene.
This makes themed cutters a useful addition to open-ended sensory play.
👨👩👧 Play Together
Cutters can also turn playtime into a shared activity.
Parents can choose a theme and create a challenge:
"Let's build a dinosaur park."
"Can you make an underwater world?"
"Let's build a farm."
"Can you create a rocket ready for launch?"
Children can then decide what the finished world looks like.
This gives parents opportunities to ask questions, introduce new vocabulary and participate in imaginative storytelling.
🌱 One Collection, Many Ways to Play
One of the best things about themed cutters is that they don't have to be used in only one way.
A dinosaur cutter isn't only for making dinosaurs.
It can become part of:
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A counting game
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A storytelling activity
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A pretend-play scene
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A colour-sorting activity
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A habitat lesson
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A matching game
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A creative challenge
The same cutter can therefore become part of a completely different activity every time your child plays.
🧺 Choosing the Right Cutter
With 15 products currently listed in the collection, you can choose a theme based on your child's interests. (THE CHILDRENS LAB)
For animal lovers:
🐞 Bug Explorer, 🐄 Farmyard Friends, 🌲 Forest Animals
For adventure lovers:
🦖 Dinosaur Adventure, 🚀 Space Explorer, 🌊 Ocean Adventure
For imaginative play:
🧜♀️ Mermaid Cove, 👑 Royal Princess, 🍭 Candy Shop
For curious learners:
❤️ Human Body Organ, 🌦️ Weather Wonders
For builders:
🚧 Construction Site
🎨 Make Playdough Even More Exciting
Whether your child loves dinosaurs, princesses, animals, construction, space or the human body, a themed cutter can give their imagination a starting point.
From a simple shape pressed into dough, children can create an entire world.
Shape it.
Build it.
Tell a story.
Create it again.
The Children's Lab's Dough Cutters Collection makes it easy to add themed, hands-on creativity to playdough sessions.
