Fun Hands-On Digraph Playdough Mats

I know that some kids love hands-on activities and that is just what these playdough mats are! It is a fun way to learn about digraphs with playdough mats.

These mats and simple and easy to use plus great for kids that want a hands-on learning activity. We love using playdough mats to learn with.

They are fun and make learning to read fun as well.

Free Digraph Playdough Mats - 13 mats including beginning and ending digraphs for kids to learn with - 3Dinosaurs.com

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I love having something I can use over and over. We have been using these mats with Meet the Phonics – Digraphs DVD.

Each digraph mat has two pictures that match up to the digraph playdough letters. I like to laminate or put in sheet protectors so I can use them over and over.

Free Digraph Playdough Mats - 13 mats including beginning and ending digraphs for kids to learn with - 3Dinosaurs.com

How we have used these Digraph Playdough Mats

One of the most basic ways to use these mats is to put them in a sheet protectors and pull out digraph you are working on and do the playdough letters. This last them work on fine motor skills while making the playdough letters. I know that my girls have always loved having the playdough mats.

Free Digraph Playdough Mats - 13 mats including beginning and ending digraphs for kids to learn with - 3Dinosaurs.com

Another way to do this is to make it a coloring page and do color the digraph letters with their favorite color. I love that coloring is always an option with playdough mats.

Free Digraph Playdough Mats - 13 mats including beginning and ending digraphs for kids to learn with - 3Dinosaurs.com

What is in the Digraph Playdough Selling Sets

If you are looking for more digraph playdough mats to use with kids you can check out the selling set with has different options.

One of the options is a similar playdough mat as above but it has tracing for the digraph letters. This allows kids to do playdough and tracing at the same time.

Free Digraph Playdough Mats - 13 mats including beginning and ending digraphs for kids to learn with - 3Dinosaurs.com

The second option in the selling set is a mat with just the letters that you can use to build the word. We used the Digraphs Wall Cards to help with making the words. The wall cards come in two sizes and fun works that kids can build with the letters.

Free Digraph Playdough Mats - 13 mats including beginning and ending digraphs for kids to learn with - 3Dinosaurs.com


What you will find in the Free Digraph Playdough Mats

  • Digraphs: ch, ck, gh, gn, kn, ng, ph, qu, sh, th, wh, wr, tch
  • Beginning and ending included
  • 14 pages
Free Digraph Playdough Mats - 13 mats including beginning and ending digraphs for kids to learn with - 3Dinosaurs.com


What you will Find in the Blends Playdough Mats Selling Set

The selling set has a collection of different digraph playdough for kids to use. Each mat is slightly different but gives fun centers for kids to work on the words. The selling set also has the beginning and ending digraph mats that are not in the free set.

Digraph Playdough Mats - with 16 digraphs with beginning  and ending options - three different types of playdough mats $ - 3Dinosaurs.com

What you will find in these printables:

  • The digraph letters with two matching pictures
  • The digraph letters with two matching pictures and trace the blends letters
  • The digraph letters so kids can build digraph words
  • The following blends: ch-, -ch, -ck, -gh, gh-, kn, -ng, ph-, qu-, sh-, -sh, th-, -th, wh-, wr-.
  • 50 pages of printables
  • Price $3

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com

8 Comments

  1. I really appreciate all your work to help bring fun and interest to phonics activities, Cassie! Thanks so much for sharing your cute printables! I featured your printables as the Free Printable(s) of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and on Pinterest.

  2. Thanks so much for this freebie. My son is ready to start diving into blends and this will be such a fun way to introduce them. I featured this in my hands on literacy post for mom’s library on ready-set-read today. Thanks!

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