My gift to you today is this colorful socks playdough mat! One of the skills I am often asked about at my learning center is how to teach children with autism colors. I have lots of fun activities that I use with my kiddos.
Playdough and playdough mats are one of my favorite, quick-to-prepare and easy-to-use go-to items for building a large variety of skills. Have you tried using them with your child yet?
How to make your colorful socks playdough mat
- Step 1 : download your free colorful socks playdough mat.
- Step 2 : print it out.
- Step 3 : laminate it.
That’s it – it’s as simple as these 3 easy steps!
How to use your colorful socks playdough mat
- Ask your child to name each color by pointing to a colored stripe and asking “what color is this?”.
2. Build receptive language skills by teaching your child to point to each color when you name it. For example, you say “blue!” and your little one points to the blue stripe.
3. To teach imitation skills, create 2 mats. Take turn filling out part of the mat and the other person has to do the same.
4. Build fine motor skills by guiding your child to roll, squeeze and break apart the playdough.
5. Enjoy the sensory components of the activity!
6. Build matching skills by having your child roll out the playdough and match each roll of playdough to the corresponding colored stripe on the playdough mat.
Looking for more sensory activities? I’ve got you covered!
- Ice Cream Playdough Mat (Free Printable)
- Fish Bowl Playdough Mat (Free Printable)
- 3 Gluten Free Playdough Recipes
- Increase Engagement & Fun with Playdough Stamping
- DIY Silly Playdough Monsters
- 5 Awesome Ways to Teach Special Needs Learners Letters
- Butter Slime Recipes (Our 3 Favorite Recipes)
Looking for more printable activities?
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.
More 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.
- 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.
- 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!
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