Free American Flag Playdough Mat | Totschooling

On the lookout for a toddler or preschooler exercise for Memorial Day or 4th of July? This Free Playdough mat is bound to be a giant hit! Additionally take a look at my Free Patriotic Do a Dot Printables for extra instructional enjoyable!

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Playdough is superb for growing advantageous motor abilities and power within the palms and fingers, which is essential for future pencil and scissor management. It’s also nice for any type of instructional exercise, from educating numbers and letters, to science and geography. The hands-on sensory expertise will make it simpler to be taught nearly any idea.

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Making the U.S. Flag with Playdough

All you want is crimson playdough for the stripes and white playdough for the celebs.

Print the Free printable playdough mat. Laminate if you want, though I did not as a result of I ran out of lamination sheets. It labored simply as properly, you simply need to be extra cautious that your baby would not rip the paper.

Earlier than beginning the exercise, present your baby the image of the American Flag positioned on the backside proper nook of the paper. Clarify that we are going to be including the stripes and stars to make the flag seem like the image.

American Flag Playdough Mat for Toddlers

Present your baby the way to roll the playdough into lengthy shapes to make the flag’s stripes. If they cannot do it on their very own, begin rolling every bit for them and have them “end” rolling the items after which inserting one by one on the flag.

You’ll most likely not be capable of match all 7 crimson stripes on the flag, we made 5. Subsequent, we rolled the playdough into little balls to create the celebs. Once more, you can also make the balls for them and have them place every bit at a time on the blue space of the flag.

We ended up with 8 stars as an alternative of fifty. Don’t fret about making an attempt to duplicate the flag precisely. This train will train your baby that america flag consists of stars and stripes and your baby will turn into visually conversant in how the flag seems like.