These free printable St. Patrick's Day do a dot pages are a fun, and developmentally appropriate, no-prep activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Your little learner will be having fun mere minutes from now when you download and print these 11 free dab a dot printables for them!
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These St. Patrick's Day do a dot printables are an easy way to entertain your child and improve their important fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Just print and had them over to your eager little one with markers.
St. Patrick's Day is a fun time for crafting and playing games with your family. Make sure to grab these additional family-friendly St. Patrick's Day printables here on The Artisan Life:
- Shamrock templates
- St. Patrick's Day picture bingo
- St. Patrick's Day mazes
- Rainbow templates
- Pot of gold templates
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Are do a dot pages developmentally appropriate?
Do a dot marker pages aren’t just no-prep fun – they’re beneficial for your child.
Do a dot worksheets can help your child develop skills like their hand-eye coordination, grip strength, finger strength, manual dexterity, and fine motor skills.
This is important because more and more children are entering school with are increasingly poor fine motor skills.
Researchers hypothesize this is because of increased screen time and decreased time for other non-screen activities. One study found that preschooler’s manual dexterity is inversely related to their screen time.
In other words, the more screen time a preschooler gets, the worse their manual dexterity is. Screen time is also associated with behavioral problems in preschoolers.
Keeping your child busy all day can be incredibly challenging. These do a dot marker pages can give you the break you need without pulling up YouTube. Print an extra set of these pages and have them on standby for when you need to make a phone call (or catch a minute of quiet time to yourself).
Of course, these pages also make a great St. Patrick's Day activity for your regularly planned homeschool preschool, too. You don't have to reserve them for "emergency" use only!
How to print and use dab a dot pages
These pages were based on the measurement of my daughter’s Classic Do a Dot Markers.
The circles are perfectly sized for this brand of markers, but they also work fine with other dauber style markers.
To make the activity no-mess, use dot printables with round label stickers. (aka "coding stickers") This makes a great quiet activity for car rides, plane trips, and doctor’s offices.
Make sure to get ⅝″ or ¾″ round stickers – 1″ round stickers are too big for the circles on the printables.
For a fine motor challenge, have your child cover the circles with pompoms or big buttons. We use this set of wool pom poms shown below with our winter activity printables:
Free St. Pat's do a dot printables download
This set as 11 family-friendly St. Patrick's Day images to dot. Some have a smaller number of circles to dot and others have lots of circles. The pages with fewer circles are helpful for introducing dot printables to your toddler. They're also great for fine motor practice with older children.
Here's a look at what you're getting:
Like all free printables on The Artisan Life, these are for personal and single classroom use. This includes use with scout groups, homeschool co-ops, Sunday school classes, your own therapy clients, etc.
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I hope your little learner loves these pages as much as mine does! Be sure to check out these additional free printables on The Artisan Life while you're here:
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- Free Printable Leprechaun Letter
- Free Printable Leprechaun Trap Signs
- Free Printable St. Patrick's Day Color by Number
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- Free Leprechaun Gold Coins Printables
- Free Printable Rainbow with Clouds Templates
- Free printable shamrock patterns
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