Rubbery Playdough
2 cups baking soda
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup cornflour
Mix with a fork until smooth. Boil over medium heat until thick. Spoon onto plate or wax
paper.
Nature's Playdough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
beetroot, spinach, and carrot juice
Mix flour, salt and oil, and slowly add the water. Cook over medium heat, stirring until dough
becomes stiff. Turn out onto wax paper and let cool. Knead the playdough with your hands
until of proper consistency. Use as is, or divide into balls and add a few drops of the
vegetable juices to make green, pink, and orange.
Baking powder Playdough
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 cup water
2 tablespoons oil
liquid food colouring
Pour dry ingredients into large pan. Stir together to mix. Stir oil and food colouring into the
water. Pour liquid into the dry ingredients while mixing, squeezing and kneading the
playdough. If too sticky, add more flour. Keeps best in the fridge.
Just Like the Real Playdough
1 cup flour
1 cup water
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 cup salt
2 tablespoons vanilla
food colouring
Mix all dry ingredients. Add oil and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until
reaching the consistency of mashed potatoes. Remove from heat and add vanilla and food
colouring. Divide into balls and work in colour by kneading the playdough.
Oatmeal Playdough
1 cup flour
2 cups oats
1 cup water
Gradually add water to flour and oatmeal in bowl. Knead until mixed (this playdough is
sticky, but unique in texture.) Model as with clay.
Nutty Butter Playdough
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup powdered milk
1 cup honey
1 cup oatmeal
Mix together and play.
Kool-Aid Playdough (Kool aid is an American jelly product get it from kool-aid.co.uk)
2 1/2 to 3 cups flour
2 cups boiling water with 1 package Kool-aid (any flavour)
3 tablespoons corn oil
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
Mix ingredients and knead with flour (may take up to 1 extra cup). Use more if the dough
draws moisture in high humidity. Keeps well, has a nice fragrance and is very colourful and
very flexible.
Porridge Play dough
Porridge oats add a different texture to a simple activity of playdough that children of all ages
can enjoy.
You will need:
Water
Flour
Food Colouring
Porridge oats
Bowl
Activity:
To make the playdough pour a few drops of food colouring into a jug of water. Pour some
flour into a bowl and gradually stir in the water, if the colour of the flour looks too pale add
some more food colouring to the mixture. If the mixture is too dry and does not combine, add
some more water, and if it is too wet or sticky add more flour. Kneed the mixture with your
hands so that the playdough is fully coloured and no longer sticky, and you have a nice
consistency to the dough.
Once the dough has been made kneed the Porridge oats into the dough until you get the
desired effect. The children can now play and mould their dough to make their own creations.
How to Make Coffee Play Dough
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
Baking sheet
Waxed paper
2 cups used coffee grounds, dried
Large wooden spoon
1 1/2 cup plain cornflour
1/2 cup salt
Large mixing bowl
Warm water to moisten
Resealable plastic bag
Line a baking sheet or tray with waxed paper for easy clean up. Lay the 2 cups of coffee
grounds on on the waxed paper until they dry, stirring occasionally so that they dry
evenly.
Place the dry coffee grounds, 1 1/2 cups cornmeal and 1/2 cup salt in a large mixing bowl
and stir the mixture with a wooden spoon until the ingredients are combined. Use your
hands to mix, if necessary.
Add warm water a little at a time and stir the mixture until your coffee play dough is the
consistency you want. Use less water for a thicker dough, and more for a damper mixture.
Once the play dough is made, store it in a re-sealable plastic bag.
Cloud Playdough
1 cup water
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
6 cups flour
Add a few drops of food colouring to water.
Combine water, oil and flour in a large bowl. Knead well.
Add more water if necessary in small amounts until the dough is soft and stretchy. Cloud
dough should be used on a washable surface for it is very greasy.
Fruit Playdough
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 tablespoons cream of tarter
2 cups boiling water
2 tablespoons of cooking oil
3 oz package sugar-free fruit flavored gelatin
Mix dry ingredients in pan. Add the water and oil. Stir over medium heat until mixture
forms a ball. Pour onto a sheet of wax paper.
Salt Glitter
1/2 cup salt
6-7 drops food coloring
Add food color to salt adjusting to desired color shade. Cook in the microwave 1-2
minutes or you can also air dry your product. To keep soft store in air-tight container.
Chocolate Playdoug (you can eat this one)
3 cups sugar
6 tbs cocoa
3/4 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup butter room temperature ( no substitutes )
1/2 cup golden syrup
1 tsp vanilla
How to make it
Mix and knead by hand until desired consistency ( something like a Tootsie Roll )
One can shape all kinds of things with this dough and then eat it also!!
Reconstitute Old Play Dough
Old Playdough
A pot with water
A pinch of salt
1 cup flour
Strainer
Microwave
Add all together in pot. Put pot in the microwave for 5 1/2 minutes. Carefully remove the pot
from the microwave. Dump play dough in strainer over sink. Let play dough cool down.
Mush together your recreated play dough. You may add food color if desired