Gingerbread Feelings Play Dough Mats | Emotions Fine Motor Centers
These Gingerbread Feelings Play Dough Mats are a fun, hands-on way for students to work on emotions, facial expressions, and fine motor skills during your gingerbread or winter units.
Students use play dough to create different facial expressions on gingerbread people, helping them visually explore how feelings can look while strengthening hand muscles at the same time.
These mats work beautifully as centers, small group activities, or independent work.
What’s Included
This resource includes a variety of gingerbread play dough mats to support different ability levels:
- 6 gingerbread men play dough mats with example faces
- 1 gingerbread man play dough mat with no example
- 6 gingerbread lady play dough mats with example faces
- 1 gingerbread lady play dough mat with no example
The blank mats encourage creativity and allow students to express emotions independently.
Play Dough Mat Instructions
- Print out the play dough mats.
- Laminate each of the play dough mats.
- Provide students with play dough to copy the different faces onto the gingerbread people – or use the blank mats for students to create their own facial expressions on the gingerbread people.
Skills Targeted
- Identifying feelings and emotions
- Understanding facial expressions
- Fine motor strength and coordination
- Vocabulary development
- Emotional awareness
These mats are perfect for gingerbread centers, SEL activities, and sensory play.
Ideal For
- Special education classrooms
- Autism support classrooms
- Preschool and kindergarten
- SEL instruction
- Fine motor centers
- Gingerbread and winter themes
Why Use Play Dough Mats?
Play dough mats combine sensory input, fine motor practice, and learning in a motivating way. They are especially helpful for students who benefit from hands-on, visual learning experiences
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