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Play Dough Activity Mats Busy Bag: Printables!

If you don’t already know, I’m slightly obsessed with busy bags at our house. We probably have over 100 of them. Here’s theĀ magic in action:

These make awesome gifts! You can get them for super cheap in our shop.
Play Doh Activity Mats Gift

play dough activity mats

I designed these play dough activity games to teach skills for molding shapes of familiar objects that they can visualize and then create. Carrots, chocolate chips, apples on a tree, candles, legs on octopus, sand castle, burgers on a grill, worms, bubbles, pancakes, snowman face, glasses and mustache on a boy, etc.free printable play dough activity mats

Play Dough Activity Mat Instructions

I designed two of the play doh mats on 1 page. Ā This makes the play dough mats printer-friendly and easy to fit in any bag or box. I used my laminator to laminate each half sheet (I like this laminator pouch thickness best, but anywhere from 3-7 will work fine).bunny and carrot play doh

At home with the kids? Instantly access any of these printable activity bundles to keep them learning!

I usedĀ my SilhouetteĀ to cut out the words on a heat transfer sheet. Then I ironed them to these little tote bags.Ā grill play doh

They turned out so stinkinā€™ cute.Ā gold fish play doh

The fun thing about play dough activity mats is they can be used again and again and again and laminators are so cheap these days.build a sand castle play-doh

The play dough activity mats are also great for a variety of ages.Ā These are great for preschoolers or even kindergarteners!

play-doh busy bag

Look how cute this birthday cakeĀ is!play-doh busy bag

Play dough activity mats work great at home as a quiet time activity, a learning activity with mom, or even as down time when you are waiting to order food at a restaurant!Play Dough activity mat printables

If you don’t have a laminator, or need a quick activity and don’t have time to laminate, I like to keep these wipeable pocketsĀ on hand for moments when I want to just print something off and use it really quick.play-doh busy bag play-doh busy bag worms play doh

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Ā And the best part is that you can download these instantly today in our shop.

If this is the first time you have heard of play dough activity mats, you can find a bunch more ideas here: Play dough mat printables

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These free play dough mat printables are so adorable and perfect for toddlers, preschoolers and even kindergarten!

Chelsey

Hi. My name is Chelsey! I have an amazing husband and 4 beautiful kiddos. I love photography, doing DIY and creating my own. I collect vintage suitcase, bags and high waist skirts (just have 26 right now). Mustard is pretty much my favorite color and I believe it looks go with everything! I am a crazy party planner, and love to have to crank up the music and have dance parties with my kids. I prefer cookies over cookie dough and cake batter over cake!
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  2. I made this set for my nearly 4 year old son. He loves it. First he made the cards like the directions and the started using the images as the background for his own ideas. Thank you for such an open ended activity. We even made another set as a birthday gift.

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    • I designed them on half sheet for easily throwing the activity into any little bag and to be a little more printer friendly. I’m sorry I only have them in the half size sheets. I am so glad you like them!

  10. I also clicked on the link for the “Burger Printable” and it brought me to this page (which I’ve already printed out for the play dough mats – thank you!) Do you have a different link for the build a burger print out?

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  14. Thank you so much!!!! I am an occupational therapist and I work with lots of little ones with fine motor needs. Playdough is a go to for hand strengthening and developing the pincer grasp. I’m always looking for something fun to use with the kids. I’ll be laminating these and using them tons!

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  15. Thank you so much for making this free and easy to print out! Our girls are enjoying it now and it is so fun for them! Thanks again!

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  17. I would love to have the burger printable for my life skills class. Can’t see to find a link to it.
    Thank you.

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  24. My kids loved your build a burger! I linked your website on my blog because they just loved it so much that anyone’s kids would love it also!

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  27. Love this idea but cant get the link to work to download all. It just keeps sending me to reload the same page. Could you email?

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  28. Hi! It just keeps refreshing the main page for me too šŸ™ can you email me the link to download?

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  30. I could not find the hamburger downloads and wanted them the most. The link in the description linked to the play doh prinatables.
    Could you send how to get the activity to my email? Thank you.
    Linda

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  31. hi
    I love these playdough mats.Did you use a size A4 full blown images. I am just not surs about the size. if you can please measure the l and w.
    thanks
    cindy

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  32. For some reason I am unable to download the printable (the links just keeps taking me to the same blog post). Is there a direct link you can provide? Thanks!

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  36. Hi I am trying to download the link and it keeps looping me back to the original blog post and is saying that the original file is not available. Could you please email me the link/file. Thank you.

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  39. These are so cute! I would love to get my hands on them. I signed up for the newsletter and I received an email with awesome printables but the play dough mats were not included. The link doesn’t seem to be working, anyway I could get an email with those or a new link?

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  41. The link does not work. This is a fabulous idea, but there is no download link that leads to the printable sheets- can this be fixed? It appears many of us are having this issue and its such a shame! I’m sure we would all love to download these.

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  43. I put in my email for the newsletter and i haven’t received an email back or any link to download the mats. Upsetting! My daughter was looking forward to these.

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  45. There are super cute useful…crab was spelled carb. All is not lost. Older children can be challenged to find the secret spelling mistake while they play with the younglings.

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  50. I have paid for the Play Doh printables and haven’t gotten an email with the pdf. Please send or refund. Thanks.

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  51. I wish you had these free without needing Facebook or Instagram….my 4 year old son would love them but I canā€™t afford to purchase them. Pinterest is the only social media allowed in my house hold. So I guess I am out of luck….these are awesome though, I could see my 9 and 11 year old girls using these for hours. Love everything you post keep it up! Good vibes for all who read posts. Totally worth it!

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  52. I have attempted to print the play dough mats several times, and the bottom ones on each page always have a some sort of big black box. What can I do to get rid of the issue, I have wasted lots of ink.

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  53. Hello,

    I don’t find the link for free play doh mats anywhere. Could you mail it to me please? Thank you. I love your pictures…

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