Here it is! Another FREE printable pack for you! This time, we have some great playdough mats for kids to play with.
These are cards that you can print to use as play dough mats to use as templates for your festive playdough creations.
We have been using them for a few weeks and have had so much fun with them! Your kids will love them, too!
I am so happy to share these free printable Christmas playdough mats with you!
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Christmas Books for Kids & Homeschool Printables
But before we get into our activity, here are some book and printable bundle ideas!
Pete the Cat Saves ChristmasThe Sweet Smell of Christmas (Scented Storybook)
Bear Stays Up for Christmas (The Bear Books)
Christmas Playdough Mats
Printable Christmas Play Dough Mats How To
If you want your play dough mats to be large (8.5×11), then print one on each page.
Or if you prefer them smaller (like us), then set up your printer settings to print 2 per page (in layout).
You will need:
AmazonBasics Thermal Laminator MachineScotch Thermal Laminating Pouches, 100-Pack, 8.9 x 11.4 inches, Letter Size Sheets (TP3854-100)
Fine Glitter Set 24pcs Glitter Shake Jars for Art Crafts Multi Color Assorted Set
- printer This is the one we have and LOVE how it prints. (color preferred, but completely optional)
- thermal laminator
- laminating pouches (8.5×11)
- scissors
- glitter, fresh cranberries, raisins, cheerios, sprinkles or anything that would be fun to decorate with
- playdough or salt dough (see recipes below for homemade ones)
Homemade Playdough recipe Homemade Salt Dough Recipe
Steps:
- Print the playdough mats on a single sheet each for large images or print 2 mats per page for smaller images (we prefer these better).
- Laminate the sheets.
- Cut them in half (if printer 2 per page)
- Use the mats as templates for shapes.
- Let the shapes dry a bit and bake (20 minutes at 250 degrees -not preheated) or take decorations off, knead a bit and start all over again for more fun!
Ideas
These holiday learning activities for kids are great to help develop fine motor skills.
Out of our Christmas printables list, we used the wreath mat to make holiday wreath ornaments.
We used fresh cranberries, glitter and colorful sprinkles to decorate them and make them look festive and fun.
As the children played with other mats, I took the wreaths off the template mats and placed them gently on a cookie sheet to bake (15 minutes at 300 degrees -preheated) and let them cool completely.
Then I added the colorful pipe cleaner to hang the ornament and used foam labels to make a Joyeux Noël sign (Merry Christmas in French because we made these during French class).
We played with the candy canes, the string of Christmas lights and the snowman. There are even more mats to play with another time or two!
Aren’t these great hands-on Christmas activities?!
Essential oils
Here are our finished wreaths. You can either use food coloring for the homemade salt dough or you can paint after baking.
We like to use water-based paint and they work great.
We also like an added (and optional) touch: we add essential oils to our works of art.
On these, we used 2 drops of Christmas Spirit on one and 2 drops of Peppermint on the other one.
When we make more, I will use White Fir and Idaho Blue Spruce.
I just LOVE the smell of evergreens in my home!
Free Christmas Playdough Mats Download
Click here for your FREE Printable: Playdough Christmas Mats
I hope your little have as much fun with these playdough mats as mine did! Let us know which ones they liked the best!
Here are more Christmas resources!

Christmas & Winter Printable Journal Bundle
$39.99 $14.99
Christmas Journal
This beautiful printable Christmas journal includes 26 activity pages, 2 cover pages (front and back) and journal spine.
We cover topics such as favorite Christmas activity, hot drink recipe, favorite Christmas memory, decorate Christmas trees activity, Christmas poem writing, Christmas sentence starters and writing prompts and more!
Winter Journal
This beautiful printable Winter journal includes 20 activity pages, 2 cover pages (front and back) and journal spine.
We cover topics such as favorite Winter activity, hot drink recipe, favorite Winter sport, animals, Winter poem writing, Winter sentence starters and writing prompts and more!
This is a PDF download, so you can save it on your computer to print year after year for each of your kids.
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Gude @HodgePodgeCraft says
So simple & fun for Christmas. Thanks for sharing at #Pintorials