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Printable Playdough Garden

Posted on April 9, 2013 26 Comments

Make a spring 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 accessories.

printable playdough garden

These free printable playdough garden accessories are a great way to set up a fun spring or garden themed play dough activity.

These printable flowers, leaves, bees and bugs make setting up a fun invitation to play really easy. You don’t need any flower themed toys or figurines, just print this set of garden images, laminate and cut them out and you are ready to make your own playdough flower garden.

Play Dough Flower Garden

It’s easy to set up this fun playdough garden activity.

Grab some playdough – shop bought or homemade whichever is easier. We used our homemade microwave playdough recipe and made some brown ‘dirt coloured’ playdough by adding coco, and some bright green ‘grass coloured’ playdough by adding green paint.

printable playdough garden

You could also add some extra 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.

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 full 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.

printable playdough garden

You can download the printable playdough garden accessories here.

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

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

printable playdough garden

If your kids love playdough as much as mine do, check out these awesome playdough ideas, activities and printables:

mermaid play dough mat
Mermaid Playdough Mat
ocean playdough with fish, shells and more
Ocean Playdough
Beautiful Bugs! Free printable play dough mats
Beautiful Bugs Play Dough Mats

Jungle Play Dough - an easy invitation to play which also makes a fabulous gift!
Jungle Play Dough and Grass Play Dough Recipe
Free printable play dough mats - print all of our play dough mats for loads of play dough fun!
People Playdough Mats
City Play Dough Activity - an easy play idea plus free printable roads signs and more.
City Playdough

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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.

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  2. Maxabella says

    Can you be my mum, Kate? x

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • katef says

      Oh yes dinosaurs would be really cool!!

      Reply
  5. Niki says

    Thanks so much for sharing. Love this!

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  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!

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  7. Cathy at NurtureStore says

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

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    • 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!!!

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  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. :)

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  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!

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  12. Ali says

    These are fantastic.

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  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!

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    • 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.

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  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!

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  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!

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  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 :)

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  20. hannah says

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

    Reply

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