Play Dough Number Mats have been the #1 resource on my blog for over 6 months now. Obviously people, like you, are looking for some fun, hands-on way to introduce numbers to their preschoolers and kindergarteners. These Free Printable Valentine Number Mats for 1-10 can be used in so many ways! You can use a different material each time you play with them to make it feel like a different activity each time.
Materials needed for the Free Printable Valentine Number Mats:
Paper or card stock
Laminating Pouches
Play Dough, mini erasers, candies or pom poms (or use them all for multiple ways to practice numbers)
To prepare:
Print and laminate.
This time around we used mini cupcake erasers that we found at the Target Dollar Spot to build the numbers.
By combining, one-to-one correspondence, numerals, words, and ten-frames on one activity, kids have the opportunity to make connections between the different formats of the numbers.
Have your child build the numbers in multiple ways. Then, she can trace the numbers and the words with her fingers to help internalize the shapes of the letters and numbers. We have also created the numbers with play dough and traced them with dry-erase markers/crayons.
Rolling out the play dough and picking up the tiny objects makes this activity a great opportunity to work on fine-motor skills as well.
I have several different themes for the number mats, so that you can choose the ones that fit your needs the most. You can choose from trees, candy jars and Christmas trees. And they are all free.
We have used play dough and candies along with pom poms and these cute heart mini erasers.
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Tina says
I LOVE your materials! Thanks for making fun, usable, appropriate resources for us!
FLORY ROSALES says
Excelente material quisiera obtenerlo para compartir con mis alumnos soy maestra de preescolar de Guatemala.
Felicitaciones al creador de tan bello material
Roxanne Malloy says
I can’t thank you enough for the creativity , inspired student center work. My students love center time and mostly because your work is colorful and fun!
Anjana Ramanuj Dayama says
Really useful and pretty… The resources and printables are too good. Im eager to use them to teach my 3 yr old son.
The most impressive . and thank you so much for offering them free of cost. Very few and rare people do it.
Awaiting for many more useful printables ,activities. I have ordered already few.
Eileen says
Thank you so very much for the free valentine’s day playdough mats 1-10 and 11-20. I can think of so many ways to utilize them with my preschoolers!!! You are so generous to offer such a high quality and well thought out product for free. Thanks again. You rock!!
Kim says
You are very welcome!