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You are invited to download the Christmas inspired playdough mats – learning printables for preschool and kindergarten children. Use this resource with playdough outlines to create hands-on festive activities for your students to supplement their learning in various areas such as literacy and creativity. This resource is going to be an exciting addition to your holiday work shelves in the Montessori and early childhood classrooms.

Playdough sensory activities along with coloring and cutting activities are beneficial for a child’s fine motor development. Encourage children to create Christmas elements such as star, Christmas tree or a gift using playdough templates. These mats can be also used with loose parts and various art mediums such as crayons, paints, pastels, and pencils.

Here is what’s included:
- mats featuring Christmas themed black and white outline shapes with tracing and initial sounds x 17
- mats featuring Christmas themed color outline shapes with lables and initial sounds x 12
Age: Preschool ages 2.5 – 5 years
Subjects and uses in the classroom: Christmas, Winter, Literacy Centers, Fine motor, Prewriting, Creative thinking
Here are some of my recommendations on how you can use these mats
Choose mats that appeal to your students most – color or pages with black and white outlines. Print and laminate the mats. Laminating is optional if you print on cardstock and don’t plan to reuse the mats next year.
Gather or make playdough using bright Christmas colors. Also gather erasable markers or pencils.
Invite the child to decorate the mat using playdough – make the shape and letter it begins with, and color the borders. As an additional fine motor challenge, the child might enjoy using loose parts such as beads to decorate the playdough.
There are a couple of different methods children can use playdough to make the shapes and letters – by pinching off small pieces and applying them on the mats or by rolling sausage-like parts and arranging them on the surface. My advice would be – to let the child decide how they wish to handle their work and exercise their problem-solving abilities.

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Christmas resources & books you might find helpful in your classroom
Christmas Pack Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Folder Busy Book
Christmas-themed learning activity pack for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten children aged 3-5. The Christmas learning folder contains printables to create a wide range of hands-on experiences for young children. Students will explore various math concepts, such as odd and even numbers, work with CVC words, practice simple subtraction and addition operations, explore the First Christmas Story, work on sequencing skills, improve their fine motor, work on storytelling, develop logical thinking, and so much more.
Pine Tree Life Cycle – Free Printables
There are so many uses of the Pine tree life cycle printables in a preschool or kindergarten classroom. These are a great addition to preschool Winter and Christmas units. Create trays for your Montessori shelf to explore the life cycle of conifer trees along with the tundra biome or botany unit – life cycle of a tree.
Nativity Cards matching Safari Ltd. Nativity SuperTOOB
The printable features watercolor images.
Images included in the printable – Nativity, Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, shepherd, camel, sheep, cow, donkey, Balthazar, Melchior, Gaspar.
Reviving Mindful Tradition of Eco - Friendly Cloth Gift Wrapping
I believe in is the time we revived the tradition of wrapping gifts into the fabric that has been around from the dawn of time and is still very popular in Japan.
Kid-Made Christmas Star Ornament
Making crafts with children creates an opportunity for spending this oh, so important and special one-on-one time with them. Creating a Christmas ornament inspired by a book is even more fun and meaningful. Our Christmas kid-made ornament was inspired by “The Story of Three Wise Kings” retold and illustrated by Tomie dePaola.
60 DIY Coloring Cards
60 DIY coloring cards for adults and children.
Angels in Art - Montessori Nomenclature Cards
Montessori Inspired Angels in Art – Montessori Nomenclature Cards.
Montessori Winter Pin Punching Cards
10 Winter themed cards for pin punching
Christmas Themed Math Beads Addition Cards
Christmas Themed Math Beads Addition Cards Printable contains
20 Colour Tree Cards with addition
18 Black and white tree cards with addition
Christmas Themed Knobless Cylinder Extensions
Montessori Christmas Themed Knobless Cylinder Extension Cards(made for sets with 5.5 cm radius of the thickest knobless cylinder)Printable contains 11 variations of Christmas themed extensions
DIY Christmas Personalized Photo Cards Photo Booth Props
DIY Wishing you a Montessori Christmas and Happy Holidays cards – personalized photo printable cards. Christmas Photo Booth Props (mustaches, eyeglasses, Santa hat and beard, reindeer antlers, also tie, bow, elf hat, angel).
Christmas Fine Motor Craft
Christmas craft is always loved by kids. It is something they get to make with their own hands and present it to someone special. There is a great choice of different art and craft materials out there, but I like to offer children ones that incorporate learning important skills and help the child to develop different fine motor. I picked these two simple, yet beautiful and exciting activities to make handmade Christmas ornaments that can be a sweet present for the child to give.
Montessori Christmas Shelves
Christmas is probably one single most exciting season of the year for many. This is a great time to set up activities that will keep children engaged and create wonderful learning opportunities. Here you will find a variety of exercises. It is lots of fun to use all sorts of materials and ones that are easy to get hold of.
December Themed Christmas and Winter Holidays Activities - Busy Book and Learning Mats
A busy book is a great way to prepare learning activities for preschool children when you don’t have much time on your hands. With the help of a busy book, children will practice fine motor, counting, recognizing numbers, simple addition. Activities will also help to improve important cognitive functions, logical thinking, and concentration.
Montessori Inspired Christmas Activities With Printables
Joy and excitement are in the air in this house as we are approaching one of the most anticipated celebrations of the year for our family – Christmas. Since our children are still very young, it feels especially significant to build up our family traditions and events around this time. I have noticed that kids at this age have practically no expectations.

The Christmas Blessing: A One-of-a-Kind Nativity Story for Kids about the Love That Brings Us Together

The Advent Storybook: 25 Bible Stories Showing Why Jesus Came (Bible Storybook Series)

The Night Before Christmas eBook: The Classic Edition (The New York Times Bestseller)

Miracle on 34th Street: Storybook Edition of the Heartwarming Christmas Classic for Children

The Last Ornament: A Christian Christmas Story for Kids Ages 4-8 / What Does Christmas Mean to You?

All about Christmas: Over 100 Amazing Facts behind the Christmas Story (Photographic, educational home school, Sunday school Christian resource or gift for kids ages 7-11)

Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents, and Peace
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- Made By Nature Made By Humans Sorting
- Penguin Life Cycle And Parts Of A Penguin
- Characteristics Of The Polar Bear
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- Christmas 3 Part Cards
- Christmas Matching Fine Motor With Pegs
- 10 Deciduous Trees And 10 Coniferous Trees Sorting Cards
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- Raccoon life cycle and parts of a raccoon
- Animal Hibernation & Torpor Cards
- 10 Farm Cards And 10 Forest Sorting Cards
- Pairing Fine Motor With Pegs – Thankful Animals
- Corn Plant Life Cycle And Parts Of A Corn Plant
- Types Of Apples
- Turkey Life Cycle And Parts Of A Turkey
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- Fall Pin Punching And Tracing Cards
- Characteristics Of The Red Squirrel
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- Fall Match Up Rhyming Words With Pegs
- Fall Leaves And Fall Flowers
- Fall Match Up Opposites With Pegs
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- Sunflower Activities
- 10 Types Of Edible And 10 Types Of Poisonous Mushrooms
- Signs Of Fall – Free Printables, Posters, Cards, Student Booklets
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- Apple Life Cycle And Parts Of An Apple
- Woodland Animals Poster Match Up Cards
- Snake Life Cycle And Parts Of A Snake
- 10 Types Of Mammals And 10 Types Of Birds In Autumn
- Octopus Life Cycle And Parts Of An Octopus
- Dog Life Cycle And Parts Of A Dog
- Crab Life Cycle And Parts Of A Crab
- Shark Life Cycle And Parts Of The Shark
- Color, Cut Out, Build, And Label The Ant
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- Gemstones 3 Part Cards
- Wild Animal Families Puzzles And Cards
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- DIY Puzzles And Coloring Pages – Vincent Van Gogh Vase With Twelve Sunflowers
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- Seahorse Life Cycle And Parts Of The Seahorse
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- Elephant Life Cycle And Parts Of An African Elephant
- Zebra Life Cycle And Parts Of A Zebra
- 10 Types Of Butterflies And 10 Types Of Ladybugs – Free Sorting Printable
- Parts Of A Grasshopper And Grasshopper Life Cycle
- Parts Of A Bear And Types Of Bears
- Chicken Life Cycle And Parts Of A Chicken Embryo
- Skip Counting Student Helper Posters And Worksheets s
- Deer Life Cycle And Parts Of A Deer
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- Number Bonds – Addition With Bead Bars Sums Of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, And 10
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- Parts Of The Volcano Poster, 3 Part Cards, Blackline Masters
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- Parts Of A Bottlenose Dolphin And Dolphin Life Cycle
- Place Value Mats, Task Cards, And Tracing Worksheets
- Hummingbird Learning Activities
- Ladybug Learning Activities
- Turtle Learning Activities
- Gemstones – Posters And Matching Cards
- Nature Journal
- Valentine’s Day Coloring Cards
- Geoboard Task Cards
- Free One Week Planner For Preschool Children With Low Prep Hands-On Activities
- Free Montessori Baby And Toddler Printable Materials
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- Arctic Animals
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- Squirrel Life Cycle And Parts Of A Squirrel
- Characteristics Of The Emperor Penguin
- Platypus Life Cycle And Parts Of A Platypus
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- Giraffe Life Cycle And Parts Of A Giraffe
- Hedgehog Life Cycle And Parts Of A Hedgehog
- Bat Life Cycle And Parts Of A Bat
- DIY Winter Puzzles And Art Activities – Painting “Maslenitsa” By Boris Kustodiev
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- Types Of Flowers Match Up
- Poppy Life Cycle And Parts Of The Red Poppy
- Silent E Learning To Read Cards
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- Rabbit Life Cycle And Parts Of A Rabbit
- Animals In Spring – Activities, Resources, And Free Printables
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- Lined Writing Paper Handwriting Practice
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- Giant Panda Life Cycle And Parts Of A Giant Panda
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- Nocturnal And Diurnal Animals Sort
- Viviparous And Oviparous Animals Sort
- Mothers And Their Young Animals Sort
- Constellations And Planets Sort
- Farm Animal Families Puzzles
- The Earth Goes Around The Sun – Free Geography Printable
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- Tulip Life Cycle And Parts Of A Tulip
- Tomato Life Cycle And Parts Of A Tomato Plant