Music Play Dough Mats

Find music play dough mats and hands-on music activities that help young students recognize, trace, and build music notes and symbols while developing fine motor skills. This collection includes printable playdough mats, music tracing sheets, dot marker activities, and road tracing mats covering notes, rests, treble, bass and alto clefs, accidentals, time signatures, dynamics, and other common music symbols. Use them for elementary music centers, Pre-K and kindergarten activities, independent practice, or sensory music lessons.I like using play dough when younger students need something more active than a traditional music theory worksheet. Instead of only looking at a quarter note or treble clef, children can build its shape with playdough, trace it with a finger, or decorate it with small manipulatives. This gives them extra time to notice the shape of each musical symbol while keeping their hands busy.