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Ten Red Apples Counting Mats

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

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

Apple Tree Play Dough Counting Mats

After reading the book, Ten Red Apples, by Pat Hutchins, children can use these mats for counting practice.

To prepare these mats, print them and either laminate the mats or slip them in clear page protectors. I like to to put them in page protectors and bind them together with metal binder rings so the kids can flip through the mats like a book. That keeps them neat on the table in the child’s area, so they don’t spread them out all over the table.

Each mat says, “Put [#] apples in the tree.” There are mats for numbers 1-10. Kids will identify the numeral on each page, and count of the correct amount of “apples” to place on the tree on the mat.

To make play dough apples, have your preschool kids pinch off a small piece of play dough, roll it into a ball, place it on the mat.

For alternative “apple” counters, you can have children use red flat floral marbles, red tokens, red bingo chips, or spray paint lima beans red.

Apple Play Dough Mats

Download the Apple Play Dough Mats

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

Download: Apple Counting Mats

{These mats were updated October 2012}

This printable uses graphics licensed by Scrappin Doodles.

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