Play mats for early childhood development

In a world where capturing and holding children's attention becomes more challenging, our colourful play mats offer an exciting resource that can lead to improved learning outcomes in Early Childhood Education. The play mats are highly visual and engage the child capturing their attention and motivating them to learn. Teachers have found these mats to be a stimulating resource that supports them in achieving desired learning outcomes across the curriculum.

What we've discovered about early childhood learning with play mats

What you see here is a teaching resource developed at the specific request of teachers and further refined from their use with their children. Child play mats are targeted at the 3 to 7 year old and frequently to those with special education needs. Regardless, both groups simply learn faster as a result of the experience.

The play mats’ specifications have been tailored to the task of providing brightly colored, graphically stimulating, and durable mats for children to sit, play and learn from. Educational concepts can easily be acquired by students working and playing with these mats.

For the teacher they can become a tool for improved child behavior, of imparting concepts and ideas of varying complexity and more generally, to make educating these young people, more fun for student and teacher.

Here’s our collection of play mat designs

Here you will discover our collection of play mat designs. They are targeted specifically at color and shape recognition skills, basic counting, building knowledge of the alphabet and then some more…. And if you have your own play mat ideas we can do custom designed mats for you as well.

Counting from 1 to 12 play mats

Build numeracy skills with your children by letting them sit, play, count and recognise the individual counting elements.

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Alphabet play mats

Learn the alphabet fast by combining physical activity, colour recognition and upper and lower case alphabet symbols.

AB Alphabet play mat CD Alphabet play mat EF Alphabet play mat GH Alphabet play mat IJ Alphabet play mat KL Alphabet play mat MN Alphabet play mat OP Alphabet play mat QR Alphabet play mat ST Alphabet play mat UV Alphabet play mat WX Alphabet play mat YZ Alphabet play mat

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Shape play mats

These play mats use a combination of square, round, rectangles, and triangle shaped graphics all of which are beautifully printed in bright colours. These play mats can be used in conjunction with the “Recognition of shapes and colours” resource below.

Yellow circle shape play mat Red cross shape play mat Purple diamond shape play mat Blue Iso triangle shape play mat Blue kite shape play mat Pink oval shape play mat Black paralellagram shape play mat Black pentagon shape play mat Green rectangle shape play mat Red square shape play mat Orange triangle shape play mat

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Recognition of shapes and colours

At its simplest level children use this set of 12 shapes to recognise them and learn their names. Then, children can trace around the shape with their finger, as if drawing. More complexity can again by added by using the “Shape Play Mats” above.

blue circle shape play mat green cross shape play mat red diamond shape play mat blue iso triangle shape play mat yellow kite shape play mat purple oavl shape play mat black para shape play mat orange pentagon shape play mat pink rectangle shape play mat yellow square shape play mat red triangle shape play mat

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Make tessellated images

With this 216 piece set of colored, shaped tiles you can make both regular and semi-regular tessellations.

red rectangle tessellation play mat yellow square tessellation play mat green rectangle tessellation play mat purple square tessellation play mat pink hexigon tessellation play mat orangle triangle tessellation play mat green hexigon tessellation play mat red triangle tessellation play mat

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Animal design play mats

We’ve discovered children love to sit with their favorite animals. The bright colors and quality animal designs make these a fantastic tool for engaging, managing and improving children’s behaviors. All of which contributes to improved educational outcomes. There are 4 different standard sets of play mats for you to choose from or you can create your own sets. Even more interestingly for each child you can custom make a personal name play mat for them, all at an affordable price. So here are some of the designs from the play mat sets available…

Dingo animal playmat Elephants animal playmat Tiger animal playmat Crocodile Australian animal play mat Echidna Australian animal play mat Emu Australian animal play mat Lion animal playmat Polar Bear animal playmat Platypus animal playmat Dog animal playmat Kookaburra animal playmat

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The turtle trace race play mats

Play to the end…for up to six children; they play by throwing a giant dice and stepping down the turtle trace to the finish. In the advanced version the participants can be moved backwards or forwards on the throw of a second dice…

The turtle trace race game with colourful giant dice

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Aboriginal design play mats

This resource has been developed to assist with Australian Aboriginal Cultural education. In a similar way, custom designs can be created for other indigenous peoples.

Dots
Aboriginal dot design play mat

Cross-hatch
Aboriginal cross-hatch design play mat

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Custom design play mats

There is a paucity of resources generally available for the education of special interest topics. Using the latest digital printing technologies it’s possible to economically make small numbers of play mats to meet these educational needs. If you have a play mat idea, this service will prove invaluable to you.

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