Get ready for playtime filled with vibrant spring flowers, squishy playdough, and the giggles of little ones exploring the wonders of Spring. ​These flower playdough mats are a beautiful and fun way to help your little one practice his or her fine motor skills while playing!
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Benefits Of These Flower Playdough Mats
Fine Motor Skills
Using these free playdough mats is a great way to help strengthen little hands. As children engage in squishing, rolling, and sticking playdough to the mats, they strengthen their hand muscles as well as improve their coordination. It’s a great fine motor activity that promotes the development of essential skills needed for tasks like writing and tying shoelaces.
Sensory Play
Sensory play is crucial for cognitive development as it engages multiple senses, fostering a deeper understanding of the world around them. Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten students can use this sensory activity with their favorite sensory play tools.
Creativity and Imagination:
By providing a creative platform, these playdough mats encourage children to use their imagination. They can choose colors, create unique flower designs, and perhaps invent their own stories around the floral theme. This fosters creativity and imaginative thinking.
Educational Value:
If you’re looking for a hands-on activity for a garden theme or for learning about Spring, these flower playdough mats are a great addition to your educational themes. As children play, they can learn about different flower types, colors, and shapes. This hands-on approach makes learning more fun and memorable for young children.
Independent Work:
When children work independently with the playdough mats, they encounter challenges and will often solve problems on their own. Whether it’s figuring out how to create a specific shape or deciding on color combinations, these challenges contribute to the development of problem solving skills.
How To Use These Flower Playdough Mats
Step 1) Download
Download your free Flower playdough mats files from this article.
Step 2) Print
Print the Flower play dough mats at home with your printer or at your local print shop on light card stock. There is a color version and a black and white version for you to choose from.
If you’d like to leave the colors up to your child, let them play with the black and white version. For more direction and helping your kids learn about the colors of specific flowers, the colored versions are a good choice.
You can print them on regular paper or heavy card stock.
Step 3) Protect
If you’d like to reuse your playdough mats, protect them with a plastic sheet protector or laminator. If you don’t have protective sheets, you can put them inside a large Ziploc bag and play on top of the plastic.
Step 4) Play
Squish, roll and stick your playdough to the playdough mats as you play. Your child could choose to roll ‘snakes’ or long strands of playdough and then fill the outlines of the flowers and their stems.
You can also use dry erase markers to color on top of your playdough mats if they’re covered in plastic.
Materials Needed
- Free Printable Flower Playdough Mats
- Clear Page Protectors (or laminator)
- Printer (or local print shop)
- Playdough
Free Flower Playdough Mats Download
These free printable playdough mats are for your own personal use, not for commercial use or for resale.
Use the download button below the next image to get the PDF file that includes a set of color and black and white playdough flower sheets.
Final Thoughts On Flower Playdough Mats
These fun playdough mats featuring Spring flowers are the perfect way to explore the Spring theme with your little ones while enhancing fine motor muscles. Whether you whip up a batch of homemade playdough or use a variety of colors from a store, these flower playdough mats are a lot of fun.
You might also like our other free printable Spring playdough mats or our Spring sensory bin ideas like this bug sensory bin and this bird nest sensory bin.
Stick around Crafty Kids Play for more free printable activities, great ideas for sensory bins, and fun crafts for kids of all ages.
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