Play-Doh Task Cards

Play-Doh Task Cards – 12 Hands-On Activities for ABA & Early Learners

Turn Play-Doh time into a fun opportunity for learning! This set includes 12 engaging Play-Doh task cards designed to encourage hands-on participation while targeting a variety of developmental and ABA-related skills.

Play-Doh activities can naturally create opportunities to work on:

• Following directions – responding to simple one- and multi-step instructions
• Receptive language – identifying colors, shapes, sizes, and actions
• Expressive language – labeling, commenting, answering questions, and describing creations
• Imitation – copying modeled actions and play sequences
• Fine motor skills – rolling, squeezing, pinching, pressing, and manipulating materials
• Visual-motor skills – using visual information to create a target
• Task completion – following a visual model from start to finish
• Choice-making – selecting colors, materials, or activities
• Functional communication – requesting items, help, more, a break, or a different color
• Turn-taking & social skills – completing activities with an adult or peer
• Tolerance & flexibility – practicing changes, waiting, and responding when things don’t go as expected
• Independent play – increasing appropriate engagement with a structured activity

The open-ended nature of Play-Doh also makes these cards easy to incorporate into NET, play-based ABA, early intervention, preschool, and special education programming.

Use the cards for individual instruction, small groups, play-based sessions, centers, or as an easy activity for caregivers to use at home.

What’s Included:
✔️ 12 Play-Doh task cards
✔️ Easy-to-follow visual prompts
✔️ Hands-on activities requiring minimal preparation
✔️ Great for repeated practice and natural reinforcement

Tip for ABA providers: Use the cards as a visual activity guide while embedding individualized targets such as communication, imitation, prompting/fading, waiting, turn-taking, and independent responding.