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.
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.
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.
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:
Blast off with this fun space playdough activity and printables
Try this fun jungle themed playdough set up!
This ocean playdough activity is lots of fun!
Kids who love cars will love this city playdough activity.
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!
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.
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.
You can use playdough to ‘stick’ the printable flower parts together, or simply add them to your playdough flower garden creations.
A playdough garden full of bright, happy, spring flowers, and lots of bees and bugs sprung up on our kitchen table!
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.
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!
Our Ocean Playdough Set has mermaids, sea creatures and more!
The Space Playdough Set has astronauts, aliens and lots of planets!
Our City Playdough Set is perfect for kids who love things with wheels!
That’s a brilliant idea. Mine are a little bit past playdough now but those would make fabulous templates for applique.
Can you be my mum, Kate? x
Sure… come on over… what’s one more??? LOL
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.
I use illustrator and photoshop mostly… oh and a pencil and paper! LOL
Oooh space things would be cool!
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.
Oh yes dinosaurs would be really cool!!
Thanks so much for sharing. Love this!
Fantastic, thanks, I have just discovered the joys of making our own play dough and can see these coming in really handy tomorrow!
Oh, aren’t they lovely! My girls will love these – thanks Kate!
Thank you for the idea and inspiration!
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!!!
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. :)
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!
Awesome stuff, thank you so much for sharing!
These are fantastic.
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!
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!
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.
I’m new here….lovely site!! Can’t wait to reload my printer ink and get going with these!
Thanks for sharing, Kate! This is truly awesome! I’m very sure the kids will have a great time playing!
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
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?
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!
Hi, I’m new to your blog. I love these printables, can’t wait to print them out for my girls :)
I love the designs, really bright and funky for kids!