Birthday fine motor mats

These fun Birthday Fine Motor Mats are a unconfined way for your kids to work on fine motor skills while moreover learning to identify patterns. Use these self-ruling printable birthday fine motor mats as a fun standalone classroom activity, part of an all well-nigh me theme, or a fun way to gloat birthdays in the classroom.

Free Printable Fine Motor Play Dough and Tracing Patterning Mats Part-way for PreK and K-1

Birthday Fine Motor Mats

These easy no-prep pattern birthday play dough mats are perfect for early learning skills and as a fun worriedness for your classroom.

This self-ruling printable set includes options that encourage kids to practice fine motor skills by copying the various lines. These are unconfined for younger kids just getting the hang of making play dough snakes and working on fine motor skills.

For those ready to work on patterns, various pattern prompt birthday cakes are included in the set.

Laminate or enclose each mat in a dry-erase pouch so you can protract to use them over and over.

Practice fine motor skills with play dough in prek and kindergarten-free printable

OPTION 1: PLAY DOUGH

Set out your favorite homemade or store-bought play dough and invite kids to roll out play dough snakes. Vanilla “birthday cake” scented play dough adds an uneaten element of sensory fun! You could plane add in a bit of glitter or confetti as sprinkles. Use the play dough snakes to imbricate the lines on the confection to mimic the patterns shown or create their own.

If you don’t want to use play dough or don’t have any on hand, children can moreover trace the patterns using dry erase markers in various colors! Invite kids to trace the lines to reflect the patterns on the cakes.

This can moreover proffer the use of the worriedness without kids have used play dough. Simply move the worriedness to the writing part-way as a pre-writing practice worriedness to get spare use out of the printable.

Learning patterns with play dough birthday confection pattern mats

OPTION 2: TRACING

Set out the mats with dry-erase markers in various colors and invite kids to trace the lines to reflect the confection patterns. Challenge kids to add spare frosting details with their markers and see what other kinds of patterns they can incorporate.

Tracing patterns in prek and kindergarten-birthday theme activities

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO EXTEND LEARNING:

Have children struggle to make their own patterns from what they learned from this activity. You can use buttons, mini erasers, or other seasonal loose parts.
Use the zippo printable cakes and invite kids to yank or glue collage materials as they diamond their own pattern birthday cakes.