FREE Lamb Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download) – Montessori Monday

I love lambs and farm themes to welcome spring. We’ve been having lots of fun with our lamb theme lately. Today, I have a free lamb do-a-dot printable for you! It’s an instant download and is super easy to prepare.

Montessori-Inspired Printables at Living Montessori Now

My daughter, Chrissy (a former Montessori child), and I are partnering to bring you a series of Montessori-inspired printables. The printables are typically themed and use a number of Montessori principles (although you don’t need to be a Montessori teacher or homeschooler to use them):

• They use isolation of quality.
• They use photographs or realistic images to emphasize reality. Whenever I can, I’ll tell you the name of the object or animal featured.
• They typically use traditional Montessori colors such as red for consonants and blue for vowels.
• They use lowercase letters, which are what we introduce letter sounds with in Montessori education. (Children tend to pick up the uppercase letters without being introduced if they’re introduced to the lowercase letter sounds.)
• They often feature themed printable versions of Montessori materials.

Free Lamb Do-a-Dot Printable for the Letter L

 

To download the lamb do-a-dot printable, click here and then click on the file image in the upper right corner of the PDF to save to your computer (just choose where you want it saved).

Montessori-Inspired Activities Using the Lamb Do-a-Dot Printable

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Lamb Do-a-Dot Letter L Tray with “Wool” Transfer Using Strawberry Huller

I used a multicraft tray, white pom poms, and a strawberry huller for a transfer activity. Quick sticks, toast tongs, ice tongs, or almost any type of tongs works very well for a pom pom transfer, too. Don’t worry if your child just wants to use fingers for the transfer. There’s still fine-motor work involved in getting the pom poms arranged on the letter.

You could add a tracing activity to the printable. If you laminate your printable, you can use an erasable crayon like the Melissa & Doug Learning Mat Crayons or Crayola Erasable Crayons. For a 2-year-old or other young preschooler who’s not ready to write letters, you can just leave off the crayons.

I included the cursive letter l from the lamb pack (subscriber freebie). My 3-year-old granddaughter, Zoey, has cursive letters at Montessori school, so I like to include them. I would probably include them even if she didn’t have cursive letters somewhere else, though. I always introduced my children to cursive letters as well as manuscript letters. It’s really a preference, so choose which fonts you want to use.

Do-a-Dot Tray with Practical Life “Wool” Transfer

 

First, Zoey transferred the pom poms to the letter “l” and we went over the phonetic /l/ for lamb.

Then Zoey chose to move the pom pom “wool” to the lamb’s body. This is a great extension to the do-a-dot printable!

(Note: In case you’re wondering, Zoey’s outfit is from Gymboree!)

If you want to know how to introduce the letter sound for l, check out my post on how to teach letter sounds using Montessori principles.

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Montessori-Inspired Lamb Pack for DIY Cards and Counters, Number or Letter Matching, Number or Letter Basket, Bead Bar Work, Hands-on Math Operations, Number or Letter Salt/Sand Writing Tray, Letter Tracing, DIY Movable Alphabet, and Creative Writing (subscriber freebie, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password – or check your inbox if you’re already a subscriber).

Free Do-a-Dot Printables and Ideas for Using Them

I love the versatility of do-a-dot printables! If you’re doing a month-long theme, you could easily change out the type of do-a-dot activity weekly to add interest. Here are four ideas of hands-on activities for any of our do-a-dot printables from my frog do-a-dot printable post (see post for details and materials used).

Just click on an image to go to the post with the related free printable!

Note: I’ve arranged the following gallery in alphabetical order, although some posts have two do-a-dot printables (and two different letters). You’ll find at least one free do-a-dot printable for each letter of the alphabet!

Also, I don’t introduce letters in alphabetical order. You can find out the order in which I introduce letter sounds here. I deviate from that order for our unit studies, though, and focus on a letter that’s simply related to our unit. That’s in addition to our other letter work.

You can see all our free do-a-dot printables with the latest at the top here.

For complete themed alphabet do-a-dot packs, see our Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, Spanish Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, and Healthy Food Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack available for purchase in the Living Montessori Now shop.