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Playdough Flower Garden – Free Printable.

Posted on April 9, 2013 26 Comments

Make a playdough garden with these fun, free printable, garden playdough accessories.

Kids of all ages will love making a garden full of flowers, bees and bugs, using these printable playdough flower garden accessories.

child's hand holding printable flower garde playdough accessories with play dough

Whether you are working on a spring learning theme, or perhaps your kids are interested in gardens, or insect, or they just love playdough, these free printable playdough flower garden accessories are a easy way to set up a fun play dough activity.

Table of Contents
  • Supplies For Setting Up A Play Dough Flower Garden
  • How to Make a Playdough Flower Garden.
  • Free Printable Playdough Garden Accessories
  • More Easy Playdough Activities for Kids

Playing with playdough is a great way to work on fine motor skills as kids pinch, roll, and shape the dough to create flower beds, leaves, and other garden elements. It’s a fun sensory activity and it also fosters imaginative play as children design their own unique flower gardens, and create stories about their gardens. This, fun, hands-on, playdough activity offers a great blend of cognitive, physical, and emotional benefits while also give kids lots of opportunities to learn about flowers, gardens, insects and nature.

If you are a busy Mum, or teacher, the printable flowers, leaves, bees and bugs make setting up a fun and engaging invitation to play really easy. You don’t need any flower themed toys or figurines, just print, laminate and the printable flower garden accessories and you are ready to make your own playdough flower garden.

Want more playdough ideas for your kids?

If you need some more playdough activities for your kids check out all our free printable playdough mats, or try one of these fun ideas:

White plate with space themed items for space play dough activity

Blast off with this fun space playdough activity and printables

white plate with leaves, sticks and stones for a jungle playdough activity

Try this fun jungle themed playdough set up!

ocean play dough set up with printable fish

This ocean playdough activity is lots of fun!

white plate with wooden shapes, road signs, and wooden trees for city playdough activity

Kids who love cars will love this city playdough activity.

printable playdough garden

Supplies For Setting Up A Play Dough Flower Garden

With the free printable (download below) playdough accessories you’ll only need a few supplies to set up your playdough flower garden activity.

To set up your playdough flower garden you’ll need:

  • playdough – homemade or store bought
  • printable flower accessories (download below)
  • loose parts or other playdough accessories (optional)

Really the only things you need to set up this playdough invitation to play is the printable accessories, and some playdough!

We used our homemade microwave playdough recipe and add some cocoa to make brown playdough for ‘dirt’ and added some food colouring to make green playdough. You could also use this fun recipe to make grass playdough!

printed flowers and insect stuck in playdough to make a garden

How to Make a Playdough Flower Garden.

Once you have your playdough and printable playdough accessories, set them out on a table or a large flat surface.

Tip! Set up your playdough activities on a large tray with high sides to help keep the playdough on the table and not on the floor!

You could also add some extra playdough accessories or loose parts such as sticks, leaves, buttons or glass gems, or whatever you have on hand. We just used our printable garden accessories (see below to download) and dough and that was enough for lots of fun and creativity.

printable playdough garden

You can use playdough to ‘stick’ the printable flower parts together, or simply add them to your playdough flower garden creations.

printable playdough garden

A playdough garden full of bright, happy, spring flowers, and lots of bees and bugs sprung up on our kitchen table!

printable playdough garden

Free Printable Playdough Garden Accessories

This set of free printable playdough garden accessories includes a page of spring flowers, bees and bugs, and a page of flower parts so you can create your own flowers and plants for your playdough garden.

This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.

printable playdough garden

Download The Playdough Flower Garden Accessories

Click here to download the printable playdough flower garden accessories.

Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.

More Easy Playdough Activities for Kids

If your kids love playdough as much as mine do, they’ll love our printable play dough mat and accessories sets in our shop!

ocean play dough mats

Our Ocean Playdough Set has mermaids, sea creatures and more!

Space Place Dough! 6 Space themed play dough mats plus 2 pages of space accessories.

The Space Playdough Set has astronauts, aliens and lots of planets!

City play set - 6 play dough mats and a page of printable accessories.

Our City Playdough Set is perfect for kids who love things with wheels!

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  1. dottycookie says

    That’s a brilliant idea. Mine are a little bit past playdough now but those would make fabulous templates for applique.

    Reply
  2. Maxabella says

    Can you be my mum, Kate? x

    Reply
    • katef says

      Sure… come on over… what’s one more??? LOL

      Reply
  3. Lyndal says

    I love your printables, what programs do you use to create them? My son’s into planets and space at the moment and I’m planning on making him some black play dough with glitter in the next few days – space printables would be awesome.

    Reply
    • katef says

      I use illustrator and photoshop mostly… oh and a pencil and paper! LOL

      Oooh space things would be cool!

      Reply
  4. Caitlin says

    Oh this is a fantastic idea that I will have to try! I instantly thought it would be great to make a prehistoric swamp complete with dinosaurs. Aliens would be fun too.

    Reply
    • katef says

      Oh yes dinosaurs would be really cool!!

      Reply
  5. Niki says

    Thanks so much for sharing. Love this!

    Reply
  6. em @ snowingindoors says

    Fantastic, thanks, I have just discovered the joys of making our own play dough and can see these coming in really handy tomorrow!

    Reply
  7. Cathy at NurtureStore says

    Oh, aren’t they lovely! My girls will love these – thanks Kate!

    Reply
    • katef says

      Thank you for the idea and inspiration!

      Reply
  8. Linda @ M&As World says

    Oh wow, you dont know how perfect these will be for my Prep class. We are studying minibeasts next term and they will love using these with playdough in our play based curriculum!! Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!

    Reply
  9. Debs says

    These were just too gorgeous for me not to feature them. Thanks so much for sharing them with everyone and for linking up to Tuesday Tots. :)

    Reply
  10. Stephanie says

    These are adorable! I will have to use your beautiful flowers as inspiration to make veggie garden for my son…flowers don’t interest him all that much!

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  11. Kathy Strong says

    Awesome stuff, thank you so much for sharing!

    Reply
  12. Ali says

    These are fantastic.

    Reply
  13. Thursday Took says

    Just discovered your wonderful pickle world. Am in love!!
    Am also thinking pink play dough with silver / pink glitter through it and princess, unicorn, carriage printables……
    You rock!!
    Thanks so much for the fabulous freebies – your generosity is sooooooo appreciated!

    Reply
  14. Mad says

    Hi, I’m going to use this idea in an arts and crafts class I do. Thank you! Just wondering what you put the playdough garden on? (for the kids to take it home). An old lid or tupperware or something? Thank you!

    Reply
    • katef says

      We just play with out play dough, not to create somthing to keep, but just to enjoy the process. Then we pack it all up so we can bring it all out again another day.
      But if you wanted to keep your creation I think a tin lid or plastic lid would be a great way to do it, or even a piece of sturdy cardboard.

      Reply
  15. Keri Brown says

    I’m new here….lovely site!! Can’t wait to reload my printer ink and get going with these!

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  16. Charlotte says

    Thanks for sharing, Kate! This is truly awesome! I’m very sure the kids will have a great time playing!

    Reply
  17. Susie says

    Where have you been all of my life? I needed you to defend my madness! I was the teacher who did not mind “messes”. I felt it was all part of the process. While other teachers cooked their playdough on the stove at home and brought it in the next day, I brought in an old coffee maker for hot water (plugged into an outlet in a storage closet with the closet door shut) and made the playdough right in the room with the class. I used unsweetened Kool Ade to color and scent the playdough. It went in as white powder and then…Magic…the color appeared! We used peg people, toy animals, toy cars and such IN the playdough. I know! I was a rebel! Simply Bonkers! My motto…a little soap and water and it cleans up like new. Clean up might take a bit longer and a bit of patience, but the class enjoyed the clean up as much as the mess up. Oh how I wish those teachers could see you now! Thank you for sharing my insanity! Blessings to You and Yours from Susie, Port Huron, Michigan, USA

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  18. Olivia Griffin says

    This is a great idea. I’m just starting to experiment with making Playdough. How did you make brown Playdough? Or black Playdough for space?

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    • katepickle says

      We sometimes use paint to colour our play dough. You only need a little and it’s easy to mix up whatever colour you want before you add it to your dough. Make sure you use non-toxic paint and even that is probably not the best choice if you have little ones who like to snack on the play dough!

      Reply
  19. Julie @ Off to the park says

    Hi, I’m new to your blog. I love these printables, can’t wait to print them out for my girls :)

    Reply
  20. hannah says

    I love the designs, really bright and funky for kids!

    Reply

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