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Preschool Playdough Mats: Cupcake Playdough Mats

July 18, 2019 by Selena Robinson

These cute cupcake playdough mats are so adorable for practicing fine motor skills!

It’s time for us to share another one of our preschool playdough mats and this time we have cupcakes!

Cupcakes are just plain fun. Whenever I say the word “cupcake”, I just start to smile involuntarily. It’s science.

So I thought these cupcake playdough mats would be fun for little hands! They’re great for building fine motor skills, color recognition, and more. 

And they’re perfect for a cupcake unit! Because you can never learn too much about cupcakes, right?

Printable Preschool Cupcake Playdough Mats

Read on to see how to get your copy of these fun printable mats for some playdough time with the kids!

Ready for more fine motor skill fun?

Don’t miss our other preschool playdough mats, including Mountain Do-A-Dot Shape Mats and Fall Alphabet and Number Playdough Mats!

These printable cupcake playdough mats are perfect for building fine motor skills in preschoolers! Plus, they're adorable for a cupcake unit!

Preschool Playdough Mats: Cupcake Playdough Mats

To use these playdough mats, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links provided here for convenience. For more, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • Printer (with ink)
  • Printer paper
  • Laminator (to reuse the mats for another time)
  • Play dough
Printable Cupcake Playdough Mats

This product includes four different cupcake mats – two with faces and two without.

I thought the cupcake faces were adorable, but if your child prefers the ones that look more like food, no biggie!

Printable Cupcake Playdough Mats for Kids

These would make fantastic busy bag additions.

You can print them, laminate them, and add them to a busy bag with dry-erase crayons or dot markers and let your child color in the circles!

Preschool Cupcake Playdough Mats

Personally, I love the use of playdough for fine motor skill building.

Kids can practice rolling the dough into small spheres and then placing them on the free spaces on each mat.

Cupcake Playdough Mats for Kids

You can use different colors to practice color recognition or even work on counting by counting how many playdough balls you can add to each picture!

Scroll down to get your set of printable cupcake playdough mats!

Don’t miss our other preschool playdough mats!

Build fine motor skills and letter recognition with these fun forest alphabet playdough mats!
These beach themed number playdough mats are fun for practicing recognizing numbers from 0 to 9!
Try a fun way to teach counting to your preschooler - this Apple Tree Printable Counting Mat!
Cupcake Playdough Mats for Preschoolers

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Working on fine motor skills with your little ones? These printable cupcake playdough mats are a perfect fine motor skill builder for young children!

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Coffee Filter Crafts for Kids: Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

July 11, 2017 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

What’s more fun than cupcakes?

*thinking*

*still thinking*

Yeah, I got nothing.

Cupcakes are easily the most fun thing ever – especially for kids. Which is one reason why I’ve been using cupcakes as a theme in several of our learning packs lately. Piglet has loved them all!

So for our newest craft, I wanted to try a giant coffee filter cupcake craft that she’d enjoy making.

Easy Peasy Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

This is a really simple craft to make with toddlers or preschoolers. It only takes a few minutes! And it’s a great fit for a cupcake unit if you add our cupcake letter matching activity and cupcake playdough mats!

Read on to see how to make this with your little ones! And be sure to check out some of our other coffee filter crafts for kids, including an easy coffee filter baseball!

Make this super sweet coffee filter cupcake craft with your little ones!

Coffee Filter Crafts for Kids: Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

To make this coffee filter cupcake craft, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links provided here for convenience. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • One white basket coffee filter
  • Construction paper
  • Child-safe scissors
  • Glue stick
  • Crayons
  • Colored pencils

Easy Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

Start by flattening out one white coffee filter.

Easy Cupcake Craft for Preschoolers

Then use a crayon to color the entire filter bright pink.

Making a Coffee Filter Cupcake

Cut about 1/3 of the filter off using child-safe scissors. Make a scalloped edge to resemble the cupcake “frosting”.

Finger Plays and Preschool Song Cards
Preschool Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

Now glue the “cupcake top” in the center of a piece of construction paper. Try to place it towards the top to leave room for the cake bottom.

Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

Now use a brown crayon to draw an inverted triangle to form the cake. Then color it in. (Afterward, I went over the brown with a dark brown colored pencil – just to make it look more like a browned cake.)

Simple Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

Then use a purple colored pencil to draw a few sprinkles on top of the cupcake!

Super Easy Coffee Filter Cupcake Craft

Add a few white polka dots with a white colored pencil and you’re all done!

Ready to try some more fun projects with the kids?

Work on shape recognition the fun way with this cool ice cream preschool shape sorting activity!

Early learners will have a ball with this fun cupcake letter matching activity featuring uppercase and lowercase letters!

This baseball coffee filter craft is just the project for your little sluggers!

Follow my Simple Crafts for Kids board on Pinterest for more easy art projects!

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