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Farm Yard Play Dough Counting Mats

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Farm Theme, Play Dough Math Mats

Use these Farm Play Dough Mats to combine fine motor and math skills in a fun way. You can find many more Play Dough Mats here.

Farm Play Dough Math Mats

I’m using these mats along with my Farm Unit this month.

To prepare the mats, just print and either laminate or slip into clear page protectors. I usually put them in page protectors and hook them together with metal binder rings. The top of each mat says, “Put [#] chicks in the farm yard.” Students will identify the numeral on each page, and count out the correct number of chicks to place on the grass.

There’s also a toddler mat for children who are not ready for counting yet, but need the fine motor practice. This mat simply says, “Put some chicks in the farm yard.”

Farm Play Dough Mats

Children can use yellow play dough to make the chicks. I would suggest having them simply make a small play dough ball to represent a chick — something simple is all that is needed. Or, if you would prefer, you could use yellow craft pom-pom balls, yellow flat floral marbles, yellow bingo chips, or yellow craft foam chick shapes. You might even find some farm animal craft foam shapes or erasers, and could use all of the animals instead of just chicks.

Download the Farm Play Dough Mats

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

Download the Farm Counting Mats:

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Download the Farm Toddler Mat:

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Hope you enjoy these! Please share with your friends by pinning to Pinterest or your other social networking sites!


Special thanks to My Grafico for providing me with these cute farm graphics (called Farm Animals by Kelly Medina) to create these play dough mats for you. You can find this set and more cute graphics at MyGrafico.com.

Find more Farm Activities for Pre-K on the category page.

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  1. Meryleen says

    February 25, 2013 at 9:16 am

    These farm yard mats are terrific!thanks once again.

    Reply
  2. Mayada Hindawi says

    February 28, 2013 at 2:15 pm

    To whom it may concern,
    I am a preschool teacher.I always reffer to your website.
    I would like to ask you to update me with the latest activities.

    Thank you,
    Mayada Hindawi

    Reply
  3. Peggi N says

    March 14, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    These mats really help my kids learn their numbers. I have a PRE-K 3 class. thanks so much for your hard work.

    Reply
    • Karen says

      March 18, 2013 at 7:28 pm

      I’m glad they’re working for your students. Thanks, Peggi!

      Reply
  4. Kat Prock says

    April 24, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Thank you for sharing! I’ve used many of your ideas this year. Your website is definitely a regular for me.

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      April 24, 2013 at 9:58 pm

      Thanks!

      Reply
  5. Rosanna Carrick says

    April 25, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    I just printed the farm animal play dough mats.
    They are so cute! I can’t wait to use them.
    I printed the toddler version so that I can also use them for other games/activities.
    Thank you so much for sharing so many of your ideas/games!

    Reply
  6. Ashley Reina says

    May 23, 2013 at 9:01 am

    I love these! They fit right in to our fun farm lesson week. Thanks!

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    • Karen Cox says

      May 26, 2013 at 6:23 pm

      Thanks, glad you like them, Ashley!

      Reply
  7. Jean Pino says

    July 3, 2013 at 12:29 pm

    I teach Pre-K & have used & love so many of your mats. The children love them, too! I was wondering if it is possible to edit these. I would like to use different farm animals for each number…1 chick, 2 pigs, 3 cows, 4 horses, etc. It would be fine to use the same animal several times, but a variety of different animals would be useful in working on identifying those beginning sounds as well as recognizing numbers & counting. Thanks for all you do!

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    • Karen Cox says

      July 4, 2013 at 1:05 am

      Hi Jean, Thanks, I’m glad you like them! I chose a chick because I thought it would be easy to make just a round play dough ball to represent a chick. I try to keep it simple because kids might get distracted from the actual counting activity if they are focused too much on trying to make a play dough cow or horse. However, I can understand if you are wanting to use these with some farm animal counters. You could probably print the word on paper and tape it over the word “chick” before you laminate them.

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  8. Stephanie says

    September 17, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    these will only print in black and white for me am I doing something wrong?

    Reply
    • Karen Cox says

      September 23, 2013 at 8:58 pm

      Maybe you need to change a setting on your printer? Here are some suggestions I have: https://www.prekinders.com/printing-help/
      Updating Adobe Reader might work.

      Reply
  9. Basimah says

    October 29, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    Karen,

    I just want to say thank you, You Rock!!! With two thumbs up 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Reply
  10. Rachel says

    August 1, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    you are so creative and amazing!!!!! I love your ideas and can tell you love teaching just by how fun everything is!!! 🙂

    Reply

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