Playdough mats are an easy way to grow kids’ imaginations, develop fine motor skills and teach important skills like counting and the ABCs. This roundup of 100 free playdough mats includes some of our favorite finds from across the web.
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PRO TIP: Be sure to laminate the mats or slide them into a sheet protector before playing to keep the playdough from sticking.
Crafty Mats
In the mood to for an afternoon of crafting? These hands-on playdough mats will keep the kids designing and decorating for hours.
Decorate clothes and add silly faces to people. // Picklebums
If your kids are in an animal kind of mood, give them these farm yard mats. // Prekinders
Give butterflies, ladybugs and flowers a little pizzaz. // Itsy Bitsy Fun
Decorate a pavlova cake. // My Little Bookcase
Set up a crafty playdough bakery.// Prekinders
Literacy Playdough Mats
Talk about hands-on literacy! These mats make learning phonics and sight words fun for kids.
Work on digraphs like CH-, SH- and TH- .
Print a copy of these 26 playdough mats – one for each letter of the alphabet – and help kids begin learning letter sounds. // This Reading Mama
Give kids practice forming letters with these A to Z mats. // 123 Homeschool 4 Me
If you’d prefer having all of the letters on one sheet, print out this ABC version. // 1 + 1 + 1 = 1
Practice writing common animal words like dog, cat and pig. // Making Learning Fun
Math Playdough Mats
Whether you want to work on numbers, shapes or time, there are plenty of options that will make learning more motivating.
Practice counting and number formation with a batch of bright and colorful cupcake counting mats.
Grab a box of toothpicks and a handful of playdough to build shapes!
Practice number formation. // Anonymous
Add apples to a tree and ten frame.
Let kids count the number of playdough chocolate chips they add to their cookie mat. // Coffee Cups and Crayons
Teach children about shapes with these free shape playdough mats. //Â Life Over Cs
Practice telling time by moving  hands on a clock. // This Reading Mama
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Great collection! I am just getting into playdough mats! These are great!
Awesome Laura! I’m excited that the roundup is helpful. 🙂
Wow! I big-fat-puffy-pink-heart LOVE this list! Pinned, Stumbled, and sending to my PMO director so I can do this with my kiddos. Thank you for putting this out there. 🙂
You’re the best, Barbara!! Thanks for being such a super fan. Your note made my day. 🙂
This is SUPER CUTE! I love it!
What an awesome idea.
Thanks for sharing.
Hooray, Jennifer! I’m excited that the list is helpful. Enjoy!!
I don’t have kids and feel jilted that these didn’t exist when I was growing up because they are awesome! I now know what I am giving as gifts for my friend’s children in the future – how fun!
Giving the play dough mats as gifts is brilliant, Andi!!
Great list, Malia. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
You’re welcome, Jolanthe! Enjoy!!
These are wonderful! Thank you for compiling them all here.
Hooray Donna! I’m so happy that the list is useful. 🙂
These are so cute! Makes me want to get a laminator and print them all out! My preschooler loves play dough and these would be a great activity for her. So glad that I stumbled across this post! 🙂
Hooray Laura! I’m excited that the playdough mat roundup will come in handy with your preschooler. 🙂
This is awesome! Thanks for making it available.
For some reason I am not able to download the free activities as easily as before. I have to add extensions to my browser now when I start download. Not sure if it’s they way you have it set up of my computer.
Hi Tricia,
I’m sorry you’re having download difficulty! You shouldn’t need any browser extensions to grab the freebies from our site. Because all of our free printables are for our email subscribers, you will need to enter your name and email address each time you want to snag a new PDF so that our system can check that you’re already on the list though.
Are you trying to access some of the free printable playdough mats that come from another site in this roundup?
Talk to you soon,
Malia
Love all of your PlayDoh ideas – thanks!
Thanks, Jill!
I love using playdough to learn- it is so versatile!
Enjoy,
Kimberleigh