A fun way to learn about teeth dentists and the tooth fairy is with these fun Dental Playdough Mats. Children will also be having fun while working on their fine motor skills as they mould the playdough into the correct shapes that relate to a variety of different dental themed tools and more. They will enjoy learning to control their hand, fingers and thumb movements which they will need throughout their life while learning about all things dental.
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Dental Playdough Mats Activity
Enhance your child’s motor and sensory skills along with their concentration skill with these wonderful dental themed printables.
This activity can instil a love of science and learning about dentistry while engaging your child in a fun hands-on activity. In creating the dental tools, tooth fairy and more while practicing to write the name of the object in the lines, they will be working on their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
This play dough mat pack contains 34 full page playdough worksheets. Children can follow the colours on the mats or create the dental objects out of colours that they choose. They are able to write the name of the item before or after creating the picture from playdough.
These worksheets can be laminated before using as then they can easily be wiped clean. Children will then use a dry-erase marker to write the name.
More Dental Resources
- Human Body: Dental
- Tooth Fairy Printable Pack
- Human Body Unit
- Toothpick Star Experiment
- Elephant Toothpaste Experiment
This pack contains:
- 34 pages of dental related items playdough mats in colour
- 34 pages of dental related items playdough mats in black and white
- Each mat comes in a half page size and a full page size
To prepare the pages of this printable pack, print them all out on white paper or white cardstock.
To complete, children will need a pen, colour pencil, marker or lead pencil and playdough to complete.
The dental themed pictures in this pack include:
- Bed
- Boy x 2
- Girl x 2
- Coin
- Tooth bag x 2
- Tooth fairy x 2
- Pillow x 2
- Wand
- Braces
- Cavity
- Fluoride
- Gold Crown
- Silver Crown
- Happy tooth
- Sad Tooth
- Plaque
- Gums
- Tooth
- Chair
- Dental Office
- Dentist x 4
- Drill
- Light
- Mirror
- Pick
- X-ray
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