Looking for an easy gingerbread activity for preschoolers? Download these Free Gingerbread Playdough Mats for a simple, hands-on learning activity that’s perfect for the Christmas season.
These free printables are easy to prep and fun to use at home, in the classroom, at preschool, daycare, or during your gingerbread theme
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Free Gingerbread Playdough Mats include a gingerbread and milk and cookies
This free printable includes two different gingerbread-themed playdough mats:
- Gingerbread Man
- Milk and Cookies
Kids shape their playdough to complete each picture. It’s an easy hands-on learning activity that keeps little hands busy while encouraging creativity.
These mats make a great Christmas classroom resource or a simple addition to your gingerbread themes and lesson plans.
Improving Fine Motor Skills
We all know that playdough is super fun, but it’s also great for improving fine motor skills. As your toddlers roll, pinch, squish, and shape the dough, they will gain hand strength, fine motor coordination, and hand-eye coordination. Plus, playdough is a calming activity that also sparks creativity. You and your kiddos will love it.
Whether you are a preschool teacher, parent, grandparent, librarian, or Daycare worker, you will love these Free Playdough Mats. You can print as many as you like. Use them for your Thanksgiving theme to entertain your crew of kids. They are great to keep kids busy at school, at home, or just for fun.
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Gingerbread Activity for Toddlers
Why do l love playdough? First, even the youngest child can play with it. My kiddos were squishing playdough when they were toddlers, just 18 months old. Second, it’s so inexpensive, you can even make your own at home. There are tons of homemade playdough recipes out there.
These playdough mats are a fun place to start playing and talking.
An Easy Gingerbread Activity with Very Little Prep
If you’re a preschool teacher, parent, grandparent, librarian, homeschooler, or daycare provider, you know how helpful it is to have activities that don’t require a lot of prep.
Simply print the pages, add some playdough, and you’re ready to go.
You can use these gingerbread printables during:
- A gingerbread theme
- Christmas activities
- Preschool centers
- Morning work
- Fine motor centers
- Indoor play
- Early finisher activities
- A gingerbread house theme
They’re also an easy activity to pull out when you need to keep kids happily busy for a few minutes.
How to Use the Free Gingerbread Printables
Use the playdough mats again and again. Here are some options. You can print them on white paper or cardstock, but just know that cardstock will make the mats more sturdy if you put the playdough directly on it.
Better yet, if you can laminate the mats, you can use them over and over. If you don’t have a laminator, you have a few other options:
- cover the mats with packing tape. A few strips should do the trick.
- Slide the printout into a page protector
- Slide the page into a gallon storage bag
Use Your Imagination with this Gingerbread Activity
You don’t have to use just playdough. You can add pom-poms, confetti, buttons, pipe-cleaners, or whatever you please to make this playdough mat even more fun.
The name of each item is also written on the mat. This way, older children can practice tracing and writing the words of each Gingerbread-themed item.
Want to Create an Entire Gingerbread Lesson Plan?
Print out the playdough pages, make a craft, and read some books.
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Do your Gingerbread Playdough Mats while reading these Fun Books:
More Christmas and Gingerbread Activities
If you’re planning your Christmas or gingerbread themes, try these activities next:
Gingerbread Man Craft
Make an adorable paper gingerbread man with this free printable template.
Santa Beard Countdown
Count down the days until Christmas with this easy Santa activity.
Santa Craft
Make an easy paper Santa that’s perfect for preschool and Kindergarten.
This is such a fun and simple Gingerbread activity. It’s perfect for preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Daycare, a homeschooler, or just a fun craft at home idea.
As always, I try to make my crafts fast, easy & inexpensive. Enjoy
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