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Free Printable Pet Theme Play Dough Shape Mats

By Shaunna Evans 2 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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We are confirmed play dough addicts around here! There’s so much to love about the benefits and joys of playing with play dough. Often we set up play dough invitations that involve open-ended play and creating. Other times I like to set up play dough invitations with a more direct learning goal. That’s exactly what we did here with this pet food play dough invitation. By combining the pet theme play dough shape mats with some play dough and basic tools, kids have the opportunity to make various 2D shapes in a fun, hands-on way that doesn’t involve worksheets or tracing.

Free printable 2D shape mats for preschool pet theme play dough invitation #pettheme #freeprintable #playdough

In this free printable set we’re including shape mats for building triangles, circles, and squares. If you’d like to work on even more shapes, there are additional shape mats included in our full pet theme lesson packs.

To prepare the activity you’ll want to laminate your mats or place them in plastic sheet protectors. Gather some basic dough cutting tools or shape cookie cutters. Set these items out with play dough of your choice. You can make your own brown play dough or use store bought dough. We happened to have a batch of gingerbread play dough handy, so we went ahead and used that…it smelled way better than actual pet food. 😉 However, you could have some fun mixing up your own pet food play dough recipe with the kids. Sprinkle in some dried herbs for fun!

Pet Theme Shape Sorting Mat Printable for Preschool

Based on the needs of your kids there are a few different ways you can present this activity.

For kids who are just beginning to learn shapes you can limit to one or two shape mats and use cookie cutters. That way kids can create the shapes more easily while they are still learning to identify them.

Pet Food Play Dough Shape Sorting Mats

Kids who are more comfortable at identifying and building shapes can use cutting tools to form the shapes independently. This take a bit more fine motor control and a deeper understanding of each shape, but it’s a great next step for kids who already know their shapes.

2D Shape Sorting Preschool Math for Pet Theme #preschool #playdough #freeprintable

This approach also gives them the opportunity to form shapes of different sizes. When making triangles in particular than can gain some experience with understanding that triangles can be found in many different variations with different angles and different lengths of sides as long as they have three sides and three vertices.

Free Printable Shape Mats for Preschool Pet Theme #shapes #finemotor #kindergarten

Grab you free printable shape mats below, and join in the fun!


2D Shape Sorting Mats for Preschool Pet Theme



 

GET A FULL WEEK OF PET THEME LEARNING AND PLAY

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

This set includes active hands-on learning ideas and the following printables:

1) Small Pets Number Cards (0-35)-4 sets with different animal options for math and calendar activities.
2) Large Pets Number Cards (1-10)
3) Pet Picture Cards
4) Pet Picture and Word Cards
5) Pet or Wild Animal Sorting Mat and Cards
6) Pet Letter Puzzles
7) Pet Roll and Graph Mats and Cubes (2 versions in both color and black and white)
8) I Have a Pet Emergent Reader (3 versions)
9) Feed Your Pet Math Game (3 game boards in color and black and white, 6 game cube variations for differentiation)
10) Sight Word Squawk Word Cards
11) Pet Theme Color Matching Activity Mats and Game Pieces
12) Beginning Sound Sort (/a/, /p/, /e/, /t/)
13) Shape Pet Food Sorting Mats

GET YOUR LESSON PLANS

Home Preschool Pet Theme Lesson Plans

Preschool Classroom Pet Theme Lesson Plans

All of our products are also available on Teachers Pay Teachers if you prefer to shop there.

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  1. Chinye Igbotueze

    February 25, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    I’ve always been a fan of this blog. It has been so helpful for me and my children. Thanks so much

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    • Shaunna Evans

      March 22, 2019 at 6:13 am

      Thank you!

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