Free Color Word Playdough Mat Printables

We love exploring colors. Playdough mats are a great way to explore color words with kids.

Playdough mats are a fun way to introduce words to kids who might not be writing, but you still want to work on recognizing and spelling color words.

Colors are a great preschool and kindergarten theme to explore. You can do it all year round or as part of the seasonal theme. You can do so much with these color word playdough mats.

The Color Word Playdough Mat Printables are a great addition to the color printables and playdough printables on the site.

What is a playdough mat?

Playdough mats are a great way for kids to build fine motor skills while teaching skills like ABCs, numbers, and shapes.

But you can also use playdough mats to work on sight words, CVC words, and more.

Color Word Playdough Mat Printables

The color word playdough mats have pictures and color word at top for kids to see. Then you have a playdough word below.

You have 11 color words playdough mats. The words are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, brown, white, and gray.

Each word is on their own page and these work great with the color coloring pages. Playdough mats are a great way to work on spelling words with kids

Color Books to use with the Color Word Playdough mats

Mouse Paint is a great color word book. It is about mixing paints and seeing what colors they make. It is a classic book to read.

Mix It Up! is a great way to look at mixing colors. This is a fun interactive book for kids to learn colors. You can also do some of the activities from the book in with paints at home.

You can find more color book ideas as well.

Things to use with the Color Word Playdough Mat Printable

• printer
• white cardstock
• laminator
• laminating pouches
• sheet protectors
• playdough
• dry erase markers
• Mouse Paint

Favorite Playdough to use with the Color Word Playdough Mats

If you are great at making playdough wonderful. But when short on time you can get great collection of playdough in the stores. If you can find the basic colors you can mix it to make other colors for the color words.
Belwo you can see one of our favortie sets of playdough.

Here is a great recipe to make your own playdough.

Ways to use the Color Word Playdough Mat Printables

You will see a few ways to use the color word playdough mats below.

Preparing the Color Word Playdough Mats

When you are preparing the color word playdough mats you an to think about how you will use them.
It is going to be a one time use of the color word playdough mats, then you might want to print on copy paper and use sheet protectors.

If you are going to use them a lot you might want to print on cardstock and laminate the color word playdough mats. That makes them last longer in a center.

Using Playdough on the Color Word Playdough Mats

You can use playdough on the color word. You can see how simple it is to make the playdough snakes and then use on the color word.

You can use playdough that matches the same color as the word. Or you can use what you have. I find it is best to match the color word when possible.

Using Small Items on the Color Word Playdough Mats

You can also use these with small items that matching the color of the color word. Then you can place them around the color word.

Mini easers are prefect for this. We collect them from Target and dollars stores. They are great one playdough words.

Trace the Playdough Color Words

You can also use this as a color word writing center. You can have them trace the letter inside the outline words. This is a great for fine motor skills and working on writing the color word and handwriting.

What you will find in the Free Color Word Playdough Mat Printable

• Word outline and 2 pictures of the color on each page
• Colors words: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, brown, white, and gray
• 11 pages

Click here to get your copy of the Free Color Word Playdough Mat Printables

More Color Printables for Kids

The Romping & Roaring Color Packs have 11 color packs for kids. The set has puzzles, playdough mats, tracing, writing, reading, and more! Each color pack has 23 pages of printables for working on color words.

Color Dot Marker Words has 11 color words for kids to dot or dot and trace the word.

Color Coloring Pages has 11 color words for kids to learn in a fun coloring page format.

Candy Shape Spin, Trace & Color has several shapes in a jar to trace and color with color the spinning wheel. This is great for fine motor and colors.

Check out all the fun Color Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com