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🎨 Explore Australian Indigenous Symbols Through Playdough & Tracing Activities!

This engaging 18-page resource is perfect for classroom learning, offering a hands-on, sensory approach to teaching Australian Aboriginal symbols. Designed to promote cultural awareness and creativity, this pack allows children to explore traditional Indigenous symbols in a fun and interactive way using playdough and tracing.

Each page features a unique Australian Indigenous symbol that children can form with playdough, trace with dry-erase markers (just laminate the pages!), or decorate using natural materials like sand, leaves, or small pebbles.

✨ What’s Included:

- 18 individual activity pages featuring distinct Australian Indigenous symbols

- Clean, bold outlines suitable for playdough modeling, finger tracing, or drawing

- Space for children to experiment with mark-making and symbolic representation

- Ideal for use in cultural studies, art exploration, or language-rich experiences

💡 Perfect for:

- Enhancing fine motor skills through sensory play

- Encouraging curiosity about Aboriginal culture and traditional storytelling

- Supporting early literacy by exploring symbolic communication

- Creating meaningful discussions around Australia's First Nations Peoples

📎 Tip: Laminate each page for repeated use. Children can trace the symbols with whiteboard markers or reuse the outlines with fresh playdough again and again!

This resource is a great addition to any early years, preschool, or primary classroom looking to respectfully and thoughtfully include Indigenous perspectives in everyday learning through play