These free printable Christmas themed play dough mats are a no-prep fine motor activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students. They're perfect for your December lesson plans. I hope you enjoy!
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This set of Christmas themed play dough mats includes 13 images in both color and black and white.
Each page in this set features a Christmas themed image and the matching vocabulary word in a dotted font to trace. If your child or students aren't ready to practice writing their letters, you can skip the word tracing section.
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Materials needed for Christmas play dough mats
You don't need much to use these play dough mats for Christmas. Here's a look at the supplies you'll need:
- Your free printable (look for the row of purple arrows lower down in the post)
- Printer access & paper or card stock
- Laminator or page protectors/dry erase pockets
- Page protectors are easier to keep organized, dry erase pockets are more durable
- Play dough! Stock up with a multipack or make your own
- A dry or wet erase marker or, our favorite Stabilo Woodies
- Package includes 6 dry erase pocket sleeves in 6 bright colors, which are red, green, yellow, orange, pink, and blue.
- Mr. Pen dry erase pocket sleeves are made with durable and long-lasting PET plastic with industrial-grade stitching according to the highest quality...
- Our dry erase pockets measure 10 x 14 inches, which makes them perfect for storing most sizes of paper or student activity sheets.
We enjoy using our Stabilo Woodies. They are a large dry erase crayon that you can use to write, color, and draw. They also have a little more friction than a marker, which makes them better for improving fine motor strength.
- 30 times more color than a traditional colored pencil with extra color intensity, even on the darkest of papers
- Due to its chunky shape, size and indestructible lead it is perfect for children's hands and promotes a good grip
- The unique multi-talented pencil is a coloring pencil, watercolor and wax crayon all in one
How to use play dough activity mats
Play dough mats are very easy to use. They encourage fine motor skills, finger strength development, and even color matching.
First, print out your pages. To make the pages reusable, slide each page into a dry erase pocket before use.
Your child, or student, makes play dough "snakes" and lays them out to cover each image. The images are large, so it's okay if the snake is a bit skinnier than the drawing on the activity mat.
Each page has the featured vocabulary word in a tracing font for your child to trace. If your child or students aren't ready to trace using a pencil, they can use a finger or skip this portion of the activity.
Christmas vocabulary play dough mats previews
This set of Christmas themed play dough mats has 13 different images. Each image is in both color and black and white. Only color versions are shown below, but both versions are included in your PDF file.
Images include:
- bow
- candle
- candy cane
- Christmas tree
- elf
- gift
- holly
- jingle bell
- ornament
- reindeer
- Santa hat
- Santa
- stocking
For even more holiday play dough mats, check out the full Christmas play dough mat bundle on TPT for a whopping 54 pages!
Free printable Christmas play dough mats PDF file download area
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