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St Patricks Day is a big deal where we live so I designed these preschool fine motor mats. Your students can practice their playdough, coloring or any other crafty skills. This free printable worksheet can also be used for some kindergarten handwriting practice. Combine fine motor strengthening and literacy this March with this no prep activity!
Other Printable Fine Motor Centers and Worksheets
1) Pirate Alphabet Playdough Mats – Literacy and fine motor skills are developed with these colorful playdough letter mats that your students will surely treasure.
2) Dinosaur On The Run Tracing Lines – Help the dinosaurs escape the volcano eruption in this fun pre-writing activity for preschoolers.
3) Seasonal Playdough Counting Mats – With 40 playdough counting mats included (10 per season), this fun hands-on resource will be a great addition to your math centers all year long!
4) Farm Shapes Mats – This printable activity can be used with playdough, pom poms, dot markers etc.
St Patricks Day Playdough Mats Setup
For this activity you will need:
Paper
Printer
Playdough
Writing tools
Optional: laminator and dry erase markers
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Preschool Fine Motor Activity
You’ll only need to print out the pages and you’re ready to have some fun!
There are many ways that you can actually use these free preschool fine motor mats. If you don’t have playdough, you can cut up pieces of paper that your students can stick unto the different St Patricks Day objects. You could use green and orange pompoms to fill up the images, paint them in or even use them as cutting practice!
More Fine Motor Learning Tools
If you liked this activity, check out some of my other products for fine motor:
1) Seasonal Playdough Mats – 40 different designs for fine motor fun all year round.
2) Alphabet No Prep Busy Bundle – huge packet of worksheets that includes everything you need to learn the alphabet including more letter handwriting practice.
Fun Books For St. Patrick’s Day:
More Printables for St Patrick’s Day:
1) St Patrick’s Day Printable Worksheet Pack – 50 pages of free St Patrick’s Day themed printable worksheets for kids. Includes a variety of literacy, math, and fine motor activities.
2) St Patrick’s Day Color By Number
3) Rainbow Dot Number Mats – Prepare this for a St Patrick’s Day or nature-inspired unit in spring, a color-themed week in summer, to study the weather in fall, or for learning to count in winter!
4) St Patricks Day Fine Motor Mats – Your students can practice their playdough, coloring, or any other crafty skills.
Browse My Most Popular Literacy Activites:
1) Valentines Alphabet Clip Strips – Kids will choose among 5 different letters on the strip to identify the matching ones.
2) Alphabet Beginning Sound Coloring Pages – Watch your child become more familiar with each letter of the alphabet as they practice coloring in the objects with that beginning sound.
3) Tommy Turkey’s Alphabet Pie – This turkey-themed letter recognition activity is so simple to prep and makes a great file folder game!
4) Pirate Alphabet Playdough Mats – Just print out the playing mats and ask your child to form the letters out using the playdough provided.
5) Farm Alphabet Find and Cover Letters – Work on letter recognition any time of the year!
6) Werewolf Spin and Cover – Kids will race to find all the letters on their mat this Halloween.
7) Bunny Burrows Game – Fun game for small groups or circle time where students will catch a bunny and say out the sound.
8) Letter-saurus Fossil Digging – Dinosaur lovers will enjoy being a pretend paleontologist and finding all the letters.
9) Alphabet Handwriting Worksheets – Practice lowercase and capital letters with these print-and-go pages.
10) Rainy Day Alphabet – 1 printable, many ways to use.
