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.
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.
Download the Apple Play Dough Mats
Note: This printable is FREE. Just click to download.
{These mats were updated October 2012}
This printable uses graphics licensed by Scrappin Doodles.
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Will you ever make a large printable letters. The ones on the other website is not as professional looking as your number
Sherryl
Sure, I could do that, Sherryl.
sorry about the type o
I really like what i see , I do not have a curriculum yet for my 3’s AND 4’S. PLEASE HELP ME!
Love it! For my apple them and meeting the Math Core Curriculum Standard!
I love the play doh mats I have never done them before. Great in small group.
Love these for one-to-one correspondence in August/September.
I can’t print some of the play doh mats. Do you know I would be able to since it licensed by Scrappin Doodle?
You probably need to update your Adobe Reader to the newest version — more details here: https://www.prekinders.com/printing-problems/
I have the Scrappin Doodles license so I can share things I make with their graphics. You don’t need a license to print them.
What a good idea!… I’m going to use it in my classroom in France! I wish I could change the words to write the “instructions” into french… Thank you for sharing!
You make planning for preschool a delight!
Thanks for your cute free printables! I was just thinking… rather than printing 10 separate mats that look the same, You could make just 1 mat and leave an empty space to write the numbers in with a dry erase marker (when laminated). It would save time, laminating & ink. 🙂
Yes, you can use the mat called “toddler mat” to do just that. It doesn’t have a number, and you could write it in with dry erase marker. However, some people prefer the mats with the numbers on them. In my classroom, I use them as an independent center activity, so I use the ones with numbers in clear page protectors (no laminating, plus page protectors are reusable). I hook them together and the kids can flip them like a book and do each one independently. I’ll leave it up to the individual to choose what they prefer.
Thank you so much for this.It’s really great to have this as i have kids that just love to use play dough and doing math with play dough is really going to be a fun way for them not only to recognize numbers but also be able to count objects which is there biggest challenge as English is not their first language.
Thanks