Encourage creativity and emotional awareness with these Halloween Build-a-Face Playdough Mats! This set of 14 fun and festive mats allows students to create unique faces for their favorite Halloween characters while exploring emotions in a playful way. Perfect for hands-on learning and emotional development in the classroom or at home!
What’s Included:
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14 Playdough Mats: Featuring a variety of Halloween characters to build faces on:
- Vampire Boy, Vampire Girl
- Frankenstein Boy, Frankenstein Girl
- Witch, Wizard
- Zombie Boy, Zombie Girl
- Mummy, Pumpkin
- Black Cat, Ogre
- Ghost, Bat
- Emotion Flashcards: A set of cards for each character to help students explore and recognize different feelings
- Build a Sentence Mat: A basic mat where students can map out the sentence "The ____ feels ____"
- Emotions Chart: A helpful chart that visually displays a variety of emotions for reference
Skills Worked On:
- Fine Motor Skills: Manipulating playdough to form faces helps strengthen hand muscles and coordination
- Emotional Awareness: Students learn to recognize and express emotions using the flashcards and sentence mats
- Verbal Expression: The sentence-building mat supports students in articulating how different characters are feeling
- Creativity and Imagination: Students can get creative by designing unique faces and expressions for each Halloween character
Perfect For:
- Classroom Centers: Ideal for emotion and fine motor centers in early childhood classrooms
- Therapeutic Use: Perfect for helping neurodivergent students or those working on emotional identification
- Halloween-Themed Lessons: A festive addition to Halloween units and celebrations that incorporates emotional learning
- At-Home Learning: Great for parents who want to engage their kids in hands-on activities that promote emotional awareness
With 14 Halloween-themed mats, emotion flashcards, and a sentence-building mat, this set offers an engaging, hands-on way for students to build emotional awareness while having fun. Whether you’re teaching emotional literacy, fine motor skills, or verbal expression, these Halloween Build-a-Face Playdough Mats provide a versatile and interactive learning experience!
** This is a digital product. You will receive a PDF or .zip file for you to download and print.