Hands-on Learning With Shape Playdough Mats

Shapes are fun to work on. I love having hands-on ideas for shapes. It makes it so much fun to learn with them. After we have the shape coloring pages the playdough mats where the next step. These give you a hands-on shape learning center that can be used over and over.

I love that playdough mats help build fine motor skills while learning. Plus it is almost like playing making the playdough snakes for the mats.

Free Shape Playdough Mats - 11 shape mats to use with kids- 3Dinosaurs.com

These are simple and easy to set up and use. Each mat has one shape with two lines around for kids to use for the playdough area.

They are simple with just the shape word, shape in the middle, and a small image of the shape as well. I like to either laminate the pages or put them in sheet protectors. If you are going to use them often printing them on cardstock helps as well.

Things to use with the Shape Playdough Mats

There are just a few of the items we used with these playdough mats.

How we used the shape playdough mat for hands-on learning

The most basic way is with playdough! I love watching my girls make the playdough snakes. It is fun to see how they fill the space. I store the mats in sheet protectors to make it easy for me to switch out the mat we are working on.

If you want to try some tracing you can have kids trace between the lines. I have it in a sheet protector and have them trace with dry erase markers. It makes it a great fine motor activity for them to do.

Another way is to use objects to outline the shape. We use the Wild About Animals Jungle Counters. They are great size for doing this activity and any of the couners would work.

Here are some things we plan on using this these shape playdough mats.

Graphics by Melonheadz Illustrating and Doodles.

What you will find in the Free Shape Playdough Mats

Shape playdough mats for the following shapes: circle, square, rectangle, oval, diamond, triangle, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, parallelogram, and octagon.
12 pages

Click here to get your copy of the Shape Playdough Mats

What you will find in the Shape Playdough Mat Set

Fun Shape playdough maths with three different options that include tracing and playdough words.

Shape Playdough Mat Set - 3 options for working each shape with playdough mat words, tracing words and tracing shape - 3 Dinosaurs

What you will find in these printables:

Shapes: circle, square, triangle, oval, star, rectangle, ring, crescent, heart, diamond, rhombus hexagon, pentagon, and octagon
Page with playdough mat, picture and playdough word
Page with playdough mat, picture and tracing word
Page with Playdough mat, picture and shape tracing
Price: $3

Click here to buy your copy of the Shape Playdough Mat Set Printables at Teachers Pay Teachers.

You can check out a sample of these playdough mats here.

Here are some other shape printables and activities on 3 Dinosaurs:

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Cassie is a mom of three stomping, romping, and roaring girls. She blogs about fun art and craft activities and printables she makes. She includes the odd review of products every now and then. She also blogs about the places that she has taken the girls called trip reviews. She has a few free printable pack for kids ages 2 to 8 and always adding more. She loves to get comments and feedback and always looking for new things to try or do with her girls.

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