Shape playdough mats

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Have you seen our Number Playdough Mats? They were such a hit we had to make some for shapes too! Kids love playing with playdough, so why not incorporate a little learning into their play? These Shape Playdough Mats will help children learn about twelve different 2D shapes. You can find more fun play dough recipes and playdoh activities at the bottom of the post. I am always adding to the best colors and shapes activities for preschoolers page too!

Shape playdough mats

I'm so happy you're here! I hope you find this space to be inspiring, helpful, and fun! Please stick around, and be sure to subscribe for e-mails, and follow our social media pages for our latest play-based learning activities. I recently created these 2-d shape play doh mats for us to use when working on our shapes and wanted to share them here, too. These printable mats include a triangle, circle, square, rectangle, hexagon, diamond, and oval. The general idea is just to bring them out during some play doh play time and have your child or students use their play doh to create the different shapes. I added the shape words to the bottom of each mat in traceable form for an added writing extension for older kiddos. Kade just turned two so for him, I just pulled out four of the mats to use. We focused on triangle, circle, square, and rectangle. We used fine motor skills to roll the play doh into different sized "snakes" or what he was calling "roads" because everything has to do with trucks and cars these days. I helped Kade lay the strips of play doh on the mats and had him help me squish them down as we talked about the shape we were making.

Resource type. With each play dough card, students will work on letters, sounds, numbers, or other academic concepts. Place value.

Do your children love playdough as much as mine do?! At least once a week, we break out our playdough box and the girls have a big time creating pretend food, cars, trees, or whatever strikes their fancy. Because they love playdough so much, I decided to incorporate their favorite activity into learning about shapes. To use, simply print the pages and laminate if desired. Then, your child can form the playdough into the shape on the printed page.

Have you seen our Number Playdough Mats? They were such a hit we had to make some for shapes too! Kids love playing with playdough, so why not incorporate a little learning into their play? These Shape Playdough Mats will help children learn about twelve different 2D shapes. You can find more fun play dough recipes and playdoh activities at the bottom of the post.

Shape playdough mats

For a simple shape activity for preschoolers, or kindergarteners, learn about basic shapes with our free printable shape playdough mats. Choose one of our easy playdough recipes or use store-bought. Then add these printable all about shapes playdough mats, and you will have a fantastic hands-on early learning activity to add to your lessons. Learning about basic shapes is important, but so is play!

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Character Education. Adult Education. Kids' Book Recs. Read our Privacy Policy here. Thanks for coming! You will find a sample all three types of the pages in the preview. Trusted tutors for subjects. Math Test Prep. Adaptive learning for English vocabulary. Just enter your details above so we can send this printable directly to your inbox. I brought out our play doh scissors which helped us practice cutting the strips to the right size for each shape. Put the playdoh mats in an art center, math center, writing center, fine motor center, play dough center, or use them for small group. Playdough is a great activity for small hands to reinforce and strengthen developing fine motor skills.

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Other specialty. ELA test prep. Place Value. The Shape Playdough Mats are great for working on learning shapes and fine motor work. Child Care. Social studies by topic. Put the playdoh mats in an art center, math center, writing center, fine motor center, play dough center, or use them for small group. With each play dough card, students will work on letters, sounds, numbers, or other academic concepts. All opinions are my own and I only link to products that I truly recommend. Flash Cards. End of Year. For the dotted shape mats, our boys made a long snake of playdough and placed it on the outline of the dotted shape. Activities include letter crafts, weekly letter activities, play dough mats, and SO much more! Balanced Literacy. Clip art.