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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Exploring Christmas - Children's Books and Learning Resources
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
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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 Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Christmas (The World of Eric Carle)

The Christmas Wish (A Wish Book)

Jan Brett's The Nutcracker


The Family Under the Bridge: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids

The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller

Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story



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Little Red Sleigh: A Heartwarming Christmas Book For Children


Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend

The Legend of St. Nicholas: A Story of Christmas Giving


Sounding Joy

The Promise and the Light: A Christmas Retelling

The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!


Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents, and Peace

Weird But True Christmas: 300 Festive Facts to Light Up the Holidays
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