Digraph Play Dough Mats

Making learning playful is key to engaging young students in literacy skills. These Digraph Play Dough Mats provide a fun, multisensory way to practice identifying and forming tricky digraphs.

This set includes 6 printable play dough mats focused on the digraphs sh, ch, th, wh, qu and ph. Each mat displays the digraph prominently alongside words and pictures containing the sound. Below is a dotted outline of the digraph for kids to trace over with play dough, building letter formation skills.

Pressing the dough into the mats to shape the letters provides tactile, kinesthetic learning. Students connect the printed digraphs to their own formed letters, reinforcing symbol recognition and phonics skills. The engaging play dough material gets kids excited about learning!

Teachers can use the mats in small groups or literacy centers. As students roll, pinch and flatten play dough they will gain strength needed for fine motor tasks like writing. The multisensory experience cements digraph recognition, sound association and letter formation.

With their hands-on, play-based format, these Digraph Play Dough Mats make building phonics skills enjoyable. Early literacy teachers will love having this creative resource in their toolbox!

Although I have suggested play dough for these mats they would also work with other sensory materials as well or simply with whiteboard pens.

Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art