Bat Shape Playdough Mats - Homeschool Share

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Playdough and math collide in this fun activity–bat shape playdough mats. You could use these shape mats as a center activity for a forest animal theme unit or a Halloween theme unit.

Benefits of the Bat Shape Playdough Mats

The shape playdough mats provide several benefits for your early learners:

Strengthens Grip
Squeezing, squishing, and warming up the playdough helps to strengthen your student’s grip.

Builds Fine Motor Skills
Rolling the dough into pieces and flattening it to fill the shape on the playdough mat helps boost your student’s fine motor skills.

Boosts Creativity
After your student builds the shape, give your student a challenge to turn the shape into something. For instance, an oval could become a balloon, a submarine, or a watermelon.

Analyze Shapes
You can also use the playdough mats to help your student analyze two-dimensional shapes. Ask questions. Is an octagon like a hexagon? How are they the same? How are they different? How many sides does a pentagon have? How many sides does a diamond have? Which one of the shapes looks the most like a bat?

What’s Included in the Bat Shape Playdough Mats?

This set of playdough mats includes twelve different shapes: rectangle, heart, square, diamond, circle, star, oval, triangle, octagon, hexagon, crescent, and pentagon.