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Preschool Playdough Mats: Birds and Bugs Spring Playdough Mats

February 20, 2017 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

These alphabet and number birds and bugs playdough mats are fun fine motor, alphabet, and counting practice for preschoolers!

Spring is just around the corner! And down here, spring usually means lots and lots of bugs. Some are downright frightening to me (palmetto bugs), but some like caterpillars, snails, and butterflies are just adorable.

I thought these cute Birds and Bugs Spring Playdough Mats would be a fun spring-themed addition to our growing collection of Preschool Playdough Mats!

Practice alphabet and number recognition skills with these fun preschool spring literacy mats!

These are a super way to work on fine motor skills, counting, and letters with toddlers and preschoolers!

If you love these, be sure to grab our Rainbow Playdough Mats as well!

Help tots and preschoolers practice letter and number literacy with these spring literacy mats! These are wonderful for welcoming the warmer weather with little ones!

Preschool Playdough Mats: Birds and Bugs Spring Playdough Mats

To use these birds and bugs spring playdough mats, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are used below. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • Printer (with ink)
  • Printer paper
  • Laminator (for keeping the mats sturdy)
  • Playdough

Spring Alphabet and Number Playdough Mats for Kids

These preschool playdough mats are a wonderful spring activity for toddlers and preschoolers!

Printable Spring Playdough Mats for Kids

There are 36 mats in all – one for each letter of the alphabet (featuring uppercase and lowercase) and one for each number 0-9.

Printable Spring Number Playdough Mats for Kids

Kids can roll playdough into long ropes and then use it to trace the outline of each letter and number.

Spring Alphabet Playdough Mats for Kids

This is great fine motor skills practice and an excellent way to help them learn to recognize uppercase and lowercase letters and their numbers!

Printable Number Spring Playdough Mats

Scroll down to get your Birds and Bugs Spring Playdough Mats!

Don’t miss these other spring resources!

Grab these fun busy bee scissor skills printables to help little ones practice using scissors!

Kids will love making their own colorful rainbows with these rainbow playdough mats!

50 Spring Books for Kids

Birds and Bugs Spring Literacy Mats for Kids

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These fun Birds and Bugs Spring Playdough Mats are a nice way to get preschoolers to work on fine motor skills during a spring unit!

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Check out loads of Free Homeschool Printables from iHomeschool Network! Head over to grab freebies for your homeschool from my fellow bloggers!

iHomeschool Network Free Homeschool Printables Linkup

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Preschool Playdough Mats: Rainbow Playdough Mats

February 3, 2017 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

Seasonal allergies aside, I absolutely adore spring. Next to fall, it’s my favorite season. Well, summer might be in the running also, which tells you how I feel about winter. 

We don’t see rainbows that often in our area, but when we do, they are gorgeous. If I happen to see one while driving, I’ve been known to shout “Look, kids! A rainbow!”

They’re just as fascinating to me now as they were when I was a kid.

Printable Rainbow Play Dough Mats for Kids

For our newest preschool playdough mats, I wanted to share one with a fun spring theme. And that’s why today we have our Over the Rainbow Playdough Mats!

Guess what? They’re FREE! Read on to see how to get yours!

To round out your spring unit, check out these adorable spring crafts for kids to make. And for more rainbow fun, don’t miss our Rainbow Number Word Matching Puzzles!

Pick up these printable rainbow playdough mats for some colorful fine motor fun with early learners!

Preschool Playdough Mats: Rainbow Playdough Mats

To use these rainbow 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
  • Playdough

Printable Rainbow Playdough Mats

You can use these without laminating them, but you probably won’t be able to reuse them a second time if you do.

If you’re waffling on buying a laminator, they’re totally worth it. 

Printable Rainbow Playdough Mat for Kids

This product includes one color rainbow mat and one black and white mat, so it’s a great way to talk about colors with preschoolers as well!

Using a Rainbow Playdough Mat

Since these rainbow mats use several colors, kids can break out many colors of playdough to use together. That’s always fun. 

Rainbow Preschool Playdough Mat for Kids

Work on one color row at a time and make sure that kids can recognize and name each one before moving on.

Making a Rainbow Out of Playdough

This is also a good fine motor activity, because preschoolers can use their hands to form the playdough into ropes and then mold them to fit the mat pattern.

Preschool Rainbow Playdough Mats

Once kids follow the color playdough mat pattern, they can recreate it on the black and white mat.

Or just come up with their own color scheme instead!

Kids will love making their own colorful rainbows with these rainbow playdough mats!

Scroll down to get your free Over the Rainbow Playdough Mats!

Don’t miss these other preschool playdough mats while you’re here!

Help tots and preschoolers practice letter and number literacy with these spring literacy mats! These are wonderful for welcoming the warmer weather with little ones!

This printable rainbow number word puzzles set is so fun for helping early learners recognize numerals and number words!

And pick up our Spring Sight Word Flashcards to help get preschoolers reading!

Work on early literacy skills with this fun set of printable spring sight word flashcards! Perfect for spring reading!

And see more ways to make learning fun for early grades on my Learning for Little Ones Pinterest board!

This free preschool playdough mats rainbow pack is a super spring activity for PreK!

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Learning about colors is so fun with these printable preschool rainbow playdough mats! Laminate them and use them over and over again for quiet play!

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Preschool Playdough Mats: Apple Tree Counting Mat

September 9, 2016 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

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Piglet, our youngest, is starting PreK this year. She is so excited about it.

Of course, she also thinks that she will begin kindergarten immediately after the first day of preschool.

Since she’s working on PreK concepts, I’ll be sharing a lot more preschool resources this year, including preschool playdough mats!

Here in the U.S., we’re all gearing up for fall, so here’s a fun Playdough Apple Tree Counting Mat you can use with your toddler or preschooler too!

PreK Apple Tree Playdough Counting Mat

Read on to see how to grab this for your students.

And for more apple fun, don’t miss our Apple Alike! Same or Different Worksheets or our Apple Preschool Counting Puzzles!

Practice counting and fine motor skills with this fun playdough apple tree counting mat!

Preschool Playdough Mats: Apple Tree Counting Mat

Here are the supplies we used for our mats: (Affiliate links provided here for convenience. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • Printer (with ink)
  • Printer paper
  • Scotch Thermal Laminator
  • Play-Doh – 24 Pack of Colors

That’s it! You definitely want to laminate these first so that they can be reused.

Supplies For the Apple Tree Playdough Counting Mat

Since the apples are grouped on the trees in sets of four, this was a simple way to work on skip counting.

Using the Apple Tree Counting Mat

Just add four apples to each tree and count them.

Counting by Four with Apple Tree PreK Playdough Mats

Use a different color to work on counting and sorting. (How many green apples are there? How many red apples are there?)

Fall Playdough Mats

Then a little reinforcement. If there are four green apples on this tree and four green apples on this tree, how many green apples are there altogether? Oh, so four plus four is how much?

Next thing you know, your preschooler will be saying that 4 x 2 = 8. 🙂

Scroll down to get your copy of our Playdough Apple Tree Counting Mat!

Check out these other fall learning ideas for preschoolers!

Use these printable fall playdough mats to teach your little ones to form letters and numbers!

Early learners will love practicing shape recognition with these apple shapes worksheets for preschool!

And don’t miss our list of awesome fall books for kids to share this year!

50 Fall Books for Kids

Get more ideas for fall fun with kids from my Fall Activities for Kids board on Pinterest!

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Free Unit Studies

This post is part of the Free Unit Studies roundup! Stop by to see more fun posts about Apples and Pumpkins from my fellow bloggers!

Corn Kernel Fall Tree Craft from Play Dough & Popsicles

Kids in the Kitchen: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins from Crafty Mama in ME

Learning About Pumpkins {Free Printables Round Up} from Faith and Good Works

Books about Pumpkins for Kids from CraftCreateCalm

Pumpkin Recipes for Kids from FrogMom

Harvest Theme Word Search from Tales of Education at Home

Board Books About Apples and Pumpkins for Toddlers from The Jenny Evolution

Pumpkin Science Activities from iGameMom

Apple Read and Play from My Storytime Corner

Pumpkin Preschool Printables from Living life and learning

Pumpkin Patch Alphabet Match from Schooling a Monkey

Apple Sight Word Game from Books and Giggles

Challenge Math – Apple Theme from Planet Smarty Pants

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