These Christmas Playdough Mats are a fun way to enjoy this Christmas season. This free printable is a great addition to play dough centers and helps kids develop important fine motor skills through play.
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More Fine Motor Activities for a Christmas Theme
Looking for a fun activity to try this winter break? Here are some more fun activities that help toddlers and preschoolers strengthen their fine motor skills this festive season.
- Christmas Transfer Fine Motor Activity
- Wrap the Present
- Christmas Tree Sticky Wall
- Christmas Tree Fine Motor Button Sewing Activity
- Christmas Lights on the Light Table
For more ideas, take a look at these 30 Christmas Fine Motor Activities for Kids.
Materials Needed
- Free Christmas Playdough Mats – PDF File
- Page Protectors
- Play dough
- Printer and paper
How to Prepare and Play with the Christmas Playdough Mats
1. Download and print the printable playdough mats
The free printable Christmas playdough mats can be found below. Just head to the bottom of the post and click the large blue button to get your copy of this digital product.
2. Laminate the mats.
There are a number of different ways to make your playdough mats more sturdy. Laminating them, or placing them in sheet protectors are perfect. This will help to make them easy to clean and sturdy enough to store and use again with next year’s class.
3. Roll the playdough into snakes and balls
Manipulating a ball of dough into different shapes is a great way for kids to get some fine motor practice.
4. Decorate the playdough mats
Use the playdough to complete the picture on each of the free Christmas playdough mats. Kids of all ages will have so much fun making their own gingerbread man or Christmas lights.
There are 8 different mats to try. Each with their own picture that needs to be completed. Included mats are:
- Christmas gift
- Christmas lights
- Snowman
- Gingerbread man
- Stocking
- Wreath
- Bauble
- Christmas Tree
More Ways to Play with the Playdough Mats
You can also use these free printable Christmas play dough mats as simple fine motor mats. Instead of using playdough, you can use other small items to decorate the pictures this holiday season. For example, loose parts you can use include:
- Buttons
- Mini erasers
- Pom poms
- Christmas sequins
- Erasable markers to simply draw with instead.
Are you going to try these Christmas Playdough Mats with your kids? Don’t forget to pin the idea for later.
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