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Carrots for the Rabbit Play Dough Mats

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Easter Theme, Plants and Seeds Theme, Play Dough Math Mats

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Here’s a set of math play dough mats for the Spring season. Play Dough Counting Mats combine fine motor and math skills in a fun way. You can find many more Play Dough Mats here.

Carrots for the Rabbit: Spring Play Dough Mats

These will work whether you are doing an Easter theme or a Plants/Garden theme.

The top of each mat says “Plant [#] carrots for the rabbit to eat.” Children will identify the numeral, and count out that amount of carrots to plant in the dirt. Children can create the carrots with bits of orange play dough to place on the mat. If you prefer to use something other than play dough, you could cut out simple carrot shapes from orange craft foam or felt.

Carrots for the Rabbit: Spring Play Dough Mats

I also made a mat that does not have a number, but simply says, “Plant some carrots for the rabbit to eat.” This mat is for toddlers who are not ready for counting yet, but need to practice fine motor skills with play dough.

Carrots for the Rabbit: Spring Play Dough Mats

Click to download the Rabbit Play Dough Mats

Note: This printable is FREE. Just click to download.

Rabbit Play Dough Mat

Rabbit Toddler Mat

Originally published April 2011. Updated May 2021.

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  1. anna( quiltmom) says

    April 11, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    Great mats for math- Thanks for all your hard work. I really enjoy your blog- lots of great ideas to use. Thanks for sharing.
    Regards from Western Canada,
    Anna

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  2. Kerri says

    April 13, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    Wow!! Thanks so very much for sharing!

    Kerri

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  3. Cindy says

    April 14, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    Hope you’ll link up at the Math Monday blog hop! 🙂 We’d love to see you there!

    http://love2learn2day.blogspot.com/2011/04/math-monday-blog-hop-1-and-giveaway.html

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  4. Cindy says

    April 16, 2011 at 9:25 am

    Thank you for posting!! Hope you’ll be back each week! 😉

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  5. Michelle says

    September 23, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    thanks for sharing this great activities!

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    • Karen says

      September 25, 2011 at 6:28 pm

      Thanks Michelle!

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  6. Pamela says

    March 18, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    I just love this idea!!! I can’t wait for my class to try this. I really like your idea of binding the pages all together with the rings too! Thank you for sharing!

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    • Karen says

      March 26, 2012 at 9:29 pm

      Thanks, Pamela!

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  7. Eve says

    March 26, 2012 at 9:38 am

    Now this is really a great idea for play dough with a purpose. My parents who hate play dough will even love this one!

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  8. Sonya says

    June 22, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Hi there thanx SO MUCH for all your hard work and resources-talent and charity is a scarce combination these days.
    Sonya from South Africa

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    • Karen says

      June 22, 2012 at 4:51 pm

      Thank you, Sonya! What a nice compliment!

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  9. Manjula says

    July 15, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    Thanks , Idea is great to give concept of numbers along with plant or animal theme.

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    • Karen says

      July 16, 2012 at 1:52 pm

      Thanks!!

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  10. Debbie Hinton says

    August 4, 2012 at 8:22 am

    Thank you. What a wonderful idea! They are being used in my pre-school classroom in South Africa!

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    • Karen says

      August 13, 2012 at 8:21 pm

      Thanks, Debbie!

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  11. Julia says

    September 1, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Thank you for all these pretty and useful things. Greetings from North-West of Russia!

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  12. Barbara says

    October 20, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    I love ideas!

    Grateful you share so generously. The children are so meaningfully engaged!

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  13. Meryleen says

    February 16, 2013 at 12:31 pm

    I’m lovin this! What a talented gal you are . My pre-K class is sure to love this. Thanks soooo much for sharing your innovative ideas with the rest of us.

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  14. Diane Massey says

    February 19, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and for your hard work. You help so many of us make teaching more fun for the children.

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  15. Mike Wenzel says

    March 6, 2013 at 12:40 am

    Thanks so much these are great! I really love all the resources your site has.

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  16. Rhiana says

    May 26, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    Thankyou so much for these placemats. My daughter and her 6 mothers group friends all love them.

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  17. Crystal Young says

    October 30, 2013 at 8:46 pm

    These mats are really great. I love your squirrel ones also. I was wondering do you have plans for making the mats into a coloring book format, so that I could color the mats myself and not use all that colored ink? Thanks for the cute ideas.

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    • Karen Cox says

      October 31, 2013 at 11:09 pm

      I will consider that. The reason I make printables in color is because (I think) the majority of teachers are looking to save time, and would not want to take the time to color all of the mats. Another thing to consider is that really you are saving money, because if you purchased the same thing from an educational company, it would cost you a lot more than the ink does.

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  18. Ana Azucen says

    November 2, 2013 at 11:00 pm

    Thank so much for sharing is wonderful idea!
    my children love?
    Ana

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  19. Colleen says

    November 8, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Thank you for these great mats. My two-and-a-half year olds had a lot of fun and did some great counting with them this morning. I can’t wait to explore the other great ideas on your site.

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  20. Tracey says

    March 14, 2014 at 6:53 pm

    How generous of you to give teachers free access to such good resources! I am amazed at the quality of your things! I hope you know just how appreciated you are! You will be blessed I am sure!

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  21. siti says

    January 6, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    great site, great activities…..will be using these for my class and children. Thank you so much!!

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  22. Helen says

    August 16, 2015 at 12:19 am

    Karen my students will love this !!!..Thanks.. I love the story book look to these pages too..

    Reply

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