Hands-On Learning With Blends Playdough Mats!

Playdough mats have always been one of our favorite ways to do hands-on learning. They work on so many skills while you use them.

Today I have some blends playdough mats that focus on the two letters of some beginning sound blends. These are fun and great for kids just starting out learning about the blend sounds.

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The Blends Playdough Mats Printables is a great addition to the blends printables and playdough mat printables on the site.

What is a blend?

A blend is when two or more consonants are blended together, but the letters in blends all make a separate sound.

Bl would be an example of the consonant blend. So the word blender has the blend of bl.

You sound out b and l sounds in the word.

Beginning blend examples are: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tr.

These Blends playdough mat printables work on beginning blends for kids.

I like having something I can use over and over while working on learning. We use these playdough mats with the series Meet the Phonics – Blends. It has the sounds and is a great way for kids to work on their sounds with words and matching mats for the videos.

Each of the blends mats has a blend in big font size for kids to see with two matching images for each blend on the side. The pictures have the matching word written out for them to see. This is a great way to see the blend in the word.

These are easy ways to introduce the blends to kids. I put the blends playdough mat in a sheet protector but you can laminate them if you plan on using them a lot.

Things to use with the Blends Playdough Mat Printable

• playdough
• printer
• laminator
• laminating pouches
• sheet protectors
• lacing letters
• Stop, Drop, and Flop in the Slop: A Short Vowel Sounds Book with Consonant Blends (Sounds Like Reading ®)

How we use the Blends Playdough Mat Printables:

You are going to see a few ways to use these blend playdough mats. Each mat

Use Playdough on the Blends Playdough Mat

One of the easiest ways to use these printables is as the playdough mat. You can give them playdough and they can make snakes and fill the letter. I put our playdough mats in sheet protectors and use playdough with them. This is also an easy way to store the printable.

Sorting Matching Letters on the Blends Dough mats

Another fun idea we have done with the mats is sorting lacing letters to fill the playdough area. This is easy to do and works on learning the letters that make the blends.

Blends Playdough Mat Selling Sets

If you are looking for more blends playdough options check out the blends playdough mats selling set.

It has a playdough mat as above with a tracing of the letter options. You can make the playdough and then trace the two letters together below it.

There is also a set of pages that just have the two beginning letters so you can build your own words.

What you will find in the free Blends Playdough Mats:

• Two pictures and words matching the blends
• The following blends: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, & tr.
• 21 pages of printables

Click here to get your copy of the Blends Playdough Mats!

What you will Find in the Blends Playdough Mats Selling Set

The selling set has a collection of different blends playdough for kids to use. Each mat is slightly different but gives fun centers for kids to work on the words.

What you will find in the Blends Playdough Mats Selling Set Printables:

• The blend letters with two matching pictures
• The blend letters with two matching pictures and trace the blends letters
• The blend letters so kids can build blend words
• The following blends: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, & tr.
• 63 pages of printables
• Price: $3

More Blends printables for kids

Blends Matching Cards work on match a picture and a word with the same beginning blend.

Blends Wall Cards: Beginning Sounds has the blend picture, the blend letters and the matching word for all the blends.

Blends I Spy Printable has three pages of blends for kids to work on learning beginning blend sounds.

Blends Easy Reader Books: L Blends, R Blends, S Blends has three books for the different types of blends. You have letters to color, picture to color and a simple sentence to read.

Check out all the fun Blends Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com