Free Printable Spring Playdough Mats

Celebrate all things Spring, even on rainy indoor days, with these fun free printable Spring playdough mats. Featuring a plant, flowers, nest and rainy weather, these playdough mats celebrate the new life that occurs throughout nature during Spring.

These playdough mats are great for younger children from toddlers right through to school children. They're also great to use in a morning basket, as a quiet time activity or during playdates.

Playdough is such a fun multi-sensory medium for kids {and adults}. It provides visual and tactile sensory input and helps children develop necessary fine motor skills. Squishing, squashing, stretching, pinching, rolling, poking, pulling, cutting and tearing playdough helps kids build hand strength and use their pincer grip which are important pre-writing skills.

HOW TO PLAY WITH SPRING PLAYDOUGH MATS

• Download free template
• Print on white paper 
• Laminate for durability 
• Add playdough or loose parts

Once I printed out the sheets I laminated them straight away so they can be reusable. You can usually get cheap laminators from most stationary stores, department stores or online at Amazon or Amazon AU. Alternatively you can use them with dry erase pouches.

When our sheets were ready I set them out with some playdough. You can also use them with loose parts or washable markers.

FREE PRINTABLE SPRING PLAYDOUGH MATS

The set includes 4 different playdough mats - a pot, an umbrella, flowers in a garden and a birds nest. Each of the mats come with a decoration prompt as an idea for how the kids can decorate the mat, including adding a plant, adding raindrops, adding petals to flowers and adding eggs. The designs are deliberately simple to provide a blank canvas so the kids can be as creative as they like. 

The beauty of these play mats is every single time children play with them their creations will be different and each child will interpret the prompts differently. For example for the flower mat I made 3 different flowers with different shaped petals and colours. Whereas my 9yr old made rainbow flowers with different shaped petals and added detail with a skewer, then added a random plain blue one.

If your children like these free printable playdough mats they may also like our free printable summer playdough mats, feelings and emotions playdough mats, Easter playdough mats, Halloween playdough mats or Christmas playdough mats.

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE PRINTABLE SPRING PLAYDOUGH MATS

Click on the download template button below to get these free printable Spring playdough mats sent to your device. The file is a 4 page PDF which can be printed as many times as you need. The PDFs are in A4 size so can be downloaded and printed as is to fit to a page in Australia, if you're printing using US letter size you may have to check the fit to page box. 

Please note these Spring playdough mats are for personal or classroom use only, they cannot be electronically uploaded, reproduced, published or sold on any platform. If you would like to share these playdough mats or include them in a blog post please link back to this post directly.

MORE SPRING PLAYDOUGH MATS

If your kids love these free printable playdough mats, I also have a full set of Spring playdough mats in my Etsy store. The full set has 14 mat designs including:

• Pot. Add a plant growing in the pot
• Flowers. Add some petals
• Umbrella. Add some rain
• Gumboots. Decorate the boots
• Watering can. Water the seedling
• Bee hive. Add some bees
• Branch. Add some leaves
• Leaves. Add a caterpillar
• Butterfly. Add wings
• Garden. Add some vegetables
• Nest. Add some eggs
• Egg. Add a hatching chick
• Flower garden. Add some flowers
• Vase. Add some flowers

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