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.
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.
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.
Click to download the Rabbit Play Dough Mats
Note: This printable is FREE. Just click to download.
Originally published April 2011. Updated May 2021.
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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
Wow!! Thanks so very much for sharing!
Kerri
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
Thank you for posting!! Hope you’ll be back each week! 😉
thanks for sharing this great activities!
Thanks Michelle!
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!
Thanks, Pamela!
Now this is really a great idea for play dough with a purpose. My parents who hate play dough will even love this one!
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
Thank you, Sonya! What a nice compliment!
Thanks , Idea is great to give concept of numbers along with plant or animal theme.
Thanks!!
Thank you. What a wonderful idea! They are being used in my pre-school classroom in South Africa!
Thanks, Debbie!
Thank you for all these pretty and useful things. Greetings from North-West of Russia!
I love ideas!
Grateful you share so generously. The children are so meaningfully engaged!
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.
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.
Thanks so much these are great! I really love all the resources your site has.
Thankyou so much for these placemats. My daughter and her 6 mothers group friends all love them.
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.
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.
Thank so much for sharing is wonderful idea!
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Ana
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.
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!
great site, great activities…..will be using these for my class and children. Thank you so much!!
Karen my students will love this !!!..Thanks.. I love the story book look to these pages too..