Description
Bring winter joy into your math block with these cheerful Snowman Twenty Frame Play Dough Mats.
Students roll dough to create “buttons,” fill the 20 frame and practise adding more to reach a total of twenty—an ideal blend of hands-on fine motor work and early addition practice.
What’s Included:
- 19 winter-themed twenty-frame mats
- A recording worksheet for students to document their work
- Optional rhyme printed on each mat to guide counting and adding
- Clear, easy-to-use layouts for independent or small-group work
Why These Mats Build Strong Number Sense:
- Reinforces addition within 20 using concrete materials
- Encourages counting-on and “making a total” through hands-on play
- Supports early part–part–whole thinking
- Helps children visualise amounts within a twenty-frame structure
- Builds fine motor strength through rolling, pressing and placing dough
- Adaptable for use with buttons, counters or dry-erase markers
How Students Use the Activity:
- Roll small dough balls to create snowman buttons.
- Place the buttons into the twenty frame, following the fun rhyme.
- Add more to fill the frame and reach the total of 20.
- Record their work on the worksheet to show their thinking.
Ideas for Classroom Use:
- Introduce as a hands-on warm-up when teaching twenty frames or addition to 20.
- Use during winter math centers, morning tubs or sensory-based rotations.
- Pair with counters or mini erasers for learners who prefer non-dough options.
- Encourage students to explain how many more are needed to make 20.
- Laminate mats for year-round reuse in your math station collection.
These frosty, playful mats offer a delightful way for students to strengthen early addition skills while developing essential fine motor control—perfect for winter learning or anytime twenty-frame practice.
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This resource is for single teacher classroom use only. Please remember that sharing, redistributing, creation of new materials for sale, or uploading to shared drives or websites is not permitted. Your respect for the one teacher, one license policy allows small teacher-creators like me to keep making resources for classrooms around the world. Thank you for your kindness and understanding!
Highlights
Description
Bring winter joy into your math block with these cheerful Snowman Twenty Frame Play Dough Mats.
Students roll dough to create “buttons,” fill the 20 frame and practise adding more to reach a total of twenty—an ideal blend of hands-on fine motor work and early addition practice.
What’s Included:
- 19 winter-themed twenty-frame mats
- A recording worksheet for students to document their work
- Optional rhyme printed on each mat to guide counting and adding
- Clear, easy-to-use layouts for independent or small-group work
Why These Mats Build Strong Number Sense:
- Reinforces addition within 20 using concrete materials
- Encourages counting-on and “making a total” through hands-on play
- Supports early part–part–whole thinking
- Helps children visualise amounts within a twenty-frame structure
- Builds fine motor strength through rolling, pressing and placing dough
- Adaptable for use with buttons, counters or dry-erase markers
How Students Use the Activity:
- Roll small dough balls to create snowman buttons.
- Place the buttons into the twenty frame, following the fun rhyme.
- Add more to fill the frame and reach the total of 20.
- Record their work on the worksheet to show their thinking.
Ideas for Classroom Use:
- Introduce as a hands-on warm-up when teaching twenty frames or addition to 20.
- Use during winter math centers, morning tubs or sensory-based rotations.
- Pair with counters or mini erasers for learners who prefer non-dough options.
- Encourage students to explain how many more are needed to make 20.
- Laminate mats for year-round reuse in your math station collection.
These frosty, playful mats offer a delightful way for students to strengthen early addition skills while developing essential fine motor control—perfect for winter learning or anytime twenty-frame practice.
Find more fun play dough mats here
Return to our store home page HERE
This resource is for single teacher classroom use only. Please remember that sharing, redistributing, creation of new materials for sale, or uploading to shared drives or websites is not permitted. Your respect for the one teacher, one license policy allows small teacher-creators like me to keep making resources for classrooms around the world. Thank you for your kindness and understanding!
