Christmas Playdough Mats {Free Printables}

We took a quick break from our Christmas slime to spend some time with our new Christmas playdough mats and wanted to share them with you so you could join in on the fun. You know we love our playdough! To discover our recommendations for printing and laminating (and how we like to save money in the process), as well as how you can download these Christmas playdough mats for free, please continue reading below.

Free Christmas playdough mat bundle the art kit

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What You’ll Need

Christmas playdough mats (link below)
Laminator
Laminating sheets
Or, instead of a laminator, you can use sheet protectors
3 ring binder to store the printables (if you placed them in sheet protectors) or folders to store the printables if you laminated them
Play Doh (store bought) or homemade playdough
Pom poms
Mini Christmas erasers

Save Money on Printing

If you’d like to save money on printing, I encourage you to check out HP Instant Ink. I’ve been using them for years and have saved SO MUCH money! It’s easy too – they know when your ink levels are running low and automatically send you new cartridges!

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Sometimes we laminate our playdough mats and sometimes we slip them into sheet protectors and tuck them in a 3-ring binder. Laminating is a bit more durable but if your little ones aren’t too rambunctious with their playdough mats, sheet protectors should work just fine.

Related: Christmas tree playdough mats

Once you’ve printed and protected your Christmas playdough mats, it’s time to have some fun!

We set our playdough mats out, along with some playdough, pom poms, mini erasers, and beads, and let the children decorate as they wished.

What I love about these Christmas playdough mats is that they encourage creativity and open-ended thinking. Such a great quiet time activity.

You could also use these sheets with dry erase markers, markers, or crayons. We’ve used all of these in the past and the kids have had a blast with them all.

Miss 7, Miss 4, and Miss 18 months all had fun with this activity. Such a great activity for a wide range of ages!

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