Bat Playdough Mat (Free Printable) - Special Learning House

Playdough mats are one of my favorite tools for building communication skills with kids with autism! This free printable Halloween bat playdough mat will help your child build communication skills, fine motor skills, have some sensory fun and learn new vocabulary. Looking for more autism activities? Get your copy of the Autism Activities Workbook Bundle here!

Free printable bat playdough mat for Halloween

Materials needed for this activity

Free printable bat playdough mat (link to your download is right after the “materials section” of this post and at the end of the post)
Black playdough
Laminating machine
Laminating sheets

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Create your bat playdough mat

Step 1

Download the free Halloween bat playdough mat.

Step 2

Print it out.

Step 3

Use a laminating sheet and laminator to laminate the playdough mat.

Step 4

Use black playdough to cover the spooky Halloween bat.

Tips for using the bat playdough mat

Build communication skills
Build hand strength
Learn to take turns : take turns adding black playdough to the mat to fill it in.

Print out 2 bat play dough mats. Cover yours with black play dough and prompt your child to do the same. Give him or her physical guidance to cover the bat at first if necessary.
Point to the bat and say “BAT”.
Point to the bat and ask your child “what is this?” Guide him or her to say “BAT” if necessary.
As a second step, you can also add accessories to the bat (a hat, a tie) or add a mouth to work on different emotions (happy face, sad face, bored face, etc.).
If your child is already verbal, ask your child questions such as “what is the bat doing?” (“flying”) and “what color is the water?” (“black”).

Find more sensory activities for autism here.

More Halloween Activities for Kids with Autism

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Halloween Play Dough Mats
Halloween Adapted Book

More Printable Sensory Activities for Kids with Autism

I created an entire workbook for you of printable activities that will help you build your child’s communication skills! Click here to go to the Sensory Communication Workbook.

sensory communication workbook for kids with autism

Autism Resources

The Successful Interaction with a Child with Autism Course – learn to better understand your autistic child or students with this complete course.
Autism Activities Workbook Bundle – build communication skills, fine motor skills, sensory play skills and daily living skills, while helping your child or students to successfully manage any difficult behaviors, with these fun, educational, printable activities.
Autism Activities Vault – your collection of 420+ autism activities for the entire school year.
Fall Autism Activities Bundle – a collection of Fall themed printable autism activities to help you build communication skills, fine motor skills, sensory play skills and daily living skills, while helping your child or students to successfully manage any difficult behaviors.
Sensory Communication Workbook – Build communication skills with simple sensory activities.
How to Make a Communication Binder Guide & Workbook – Learn how to create a Communication Binder for your child or student with autism using real photos. Follow my expert guide to learn how to use it to increase communication skills.
Autism Adapted Books Bundle – a collection of 10 adapted books that will help you build communication skills while teaching more than 120 vocabulary words.
Autism Social Stories Bundle – a collection of printable social stories to help your little learners work on their social skills.
Zoo Animals Play Dough Mats Bundle – use these printable play dough mat to work on the names of the animals, build language skills, and increase fine motor strength and precision in a fun, sensory way!