Cheap and Easy Homemade Playdough Recipe

Making your own playdough at home is easy and fun as well as inexpensive. No need to spend a lot of money buying playdough, because now you can make your own playdough and make it without costing you much. All of the ingredients for this homemade playdough recipe can probably be found easily around your kitchen. So, lets begin this easy playdough recipe...

You will need the following ingredients:
2 cups of boiling water
2 and 1/2 cups of flour
1 cup salt
3 TB vegetable oil
2 packs Kool-Aid

Other things you will need:
mixing bowl
mixing spoon

Step 1
Add the 2 and a 1/2 cups of flour flour into the mixing bowl. Then add the cup of salt and the 2 packs of Kool-Aid (you can choose any 2 kinds of pack of Kool-Aid that you want (The Kool-Aid gives the playdough it's color as well as a great scent). Then add the 3 tablespoons. Briefly mix those ingredients together.

Step 2
Then add the 2 cups of boiling water

Step 3
Mix all the ingredients together until the dough is formed. (Note, While its warm the dough may seem a little sticky, but when it cools off, it will stop being sticky and will seem more like how play dough should feel)

There you have it. Cheap, Quick and Easy to make playdough! All that's left for you to do is enjoy and have fun with the playdough! How do you have fun with playdough? Well, that part is easy: you make creative things out of the playdough. Not sure what to make? Don't worry, here are some very creative playdough ideas to help you out.Click Here!


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Nontoxic Homemade Playdough Recipe

The best part about making your own playdough at home is that you know exactly what is in the playdough and you don't have to worry about whether a child playing with the play dough is being exposed to harmful toxins. Here is a wonderful nontoxic homemade playdough recipe which you can try.

Ingredients that you will need for this recipe:
1 cup of flour
1 cup of warm water
1/4 cup of salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 teaspoons of cream of tartar
food coloring
essential oil (optional)

Other things you will need for this recipe:
saucepan
mixing spoon

Step 1
Add the cup of flour into the saucepan (no heat yet). Then add the cup of warm water into the saucepan, followed by the 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar, a teaspoon of vegetable oil and the 1/4 cup of salt.

Step 2
Once all the ingredients are in the saucepan, turn on the stove to medium heat and stir the ingredients. (Note, you can add the food coloring at this step or you can add it at the end, once the dough is formed).

Step 3
Continue to stir until the dough is formed. Once the dough has formed, take it out of the saucepan using the spoon and place it on a flat surface where you can work from, such as a bread board or kitchen table surface.

Step 4
knead the dough until smooth. You can either knead the dough while it's still hot, or you can let it cool of a bit and then knead the dough.

Step 5
Add a few drops of food coloring to the dough. You can also add 2 to 3 drops of essential oil to give the dough a pleasant scent. Work in the food coloring and essential oil into the dough until it is completely mixed into the playdough.

There you have it! great looking, great smelling homemade playdough which is easy and fun to make.


The video, Healthy Byte: Make Your Nontoxic Play Dough At Home was created by healthychild.org

Colorful Homemade Playdough Recipe

This is a great homemade playdough recipe. Now you can make your own fun and colorful playdough in the comfort of your home. The recipe for making this homemade playdough is not difficult to make.

Ingredients that you will need for this recipe:
2 cups plain flour
2 cups water
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp cream of tartar
1 cup salt
4 different colors of food coloring

Other things that you will need for this recipe:
saucepan
mixing spoon

Step 1
Add the 2 cups of flour into the saucepan. Don't add heat yet. Then add the water into the saucepan, followed by the 1 cup of salt, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil and finally the 1 tablespoon of cream of tarter. Mix the ingredients together using the mixing spoon.

Step 2
add a low heat to the saucepan and continue to stir the ingredients together until the dough is formed.

Step 3
Once the dough is formed in the pan, take it out of the pan and place it on a surface to work from, such as a bread board or kitchen table. Knead the dough while its still warm, until the dough is smooth.

Step 4
Once the dough is smooth, break it up into 4 pieces. Each piece will be colored a different color. This is the part where you add color to the dough. Since you are going to be using color dye, place a piece of baking paper on the surface where you are working from.

Step 5
Using your thumb, press a hole into each of the dough pieces. Add a few drops of the colored dye/food coloring into the hole that you made in the dough, each piece of dough getting a different color. Note, working with the color dye may be a little messy, so you can wear cloves to avoid dirtying your hands.

Step 6
Work the color into the dough until the piece of dough changes color.

That's that. It's finished; now you have 4 pieces of wonderfully colored playdough. Have fun playing with the different colored homemade playdough.

Now that you've made some awesome playdough, why not get some great ideas for what to make out of that playdough? Here are some amazing and very creative playdough ideas which will keep kids entertained over and over again.


The video, How to Make Play Dough was created by NicosBabyFood

No Cook Homemade Playdough Recipe

This is a great homemade playdough recipe particularly for small children because it does not require any cooking or boiling water and is easy to make. With this homemade playdough recipe it is really easy to make your own playdough. Making your own playdough is as simple as mixing all the ingredients together until the playdough is formed, and adding color to it to brighten up the playdough to make it more fun.

Ingredients for this playdough recipe:
1 teaspoon of alum
1/2 cup of water
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
2 tablespoons of oil

Other things you will need for this playdough recipe:
measuring spoons
measuring cups
mixing bowl
mixing spoon

Step 1
First add the cup of flour to the mixing bowl. Then add the half a cup of salt, teaspoon of alum and 2 tablespoons of oil to the mixing bowl. Finally, add the half a cup of water.

Step 2
Stir all the ingredients that are in the mixing bowl together using the spoon. continue to mix all the ingredients together until it becomes thick and the dough is formed.

Step 3 (optional)
Add color using something like food coloring. You can either add the coloring during step 1, when you are adding all the ingredients together, or add the color once the playdough is formed and simply knead the color into the playdough.

Once that is done, you will have made your own playdough at home, without needing any heat or boiling water. There you have it... quick and easy playdough!


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Best Homemade Playdough Recipe

This is an easy homemade playdough recipe that you can make. If you where looking for an easy and fun way to make play dough at home, then this playdough recipe is just for you. All it requires is mixing the ingredients together, stirring the mixture until thick and kneading until the play dough is formed. Once the play dough is formed, all that's left for you to do is enjoy.

You will need the following ingredients:
1 cup of all-purpose flour
1 cup of water
1/2 cup of salt
1 TB of oil
2 TB of cream of tarter
1/8 to 1/4 of a tsp of food coloring paste

You will need the following:
a pan
a whisk
a wooden spoon
a floured surface
plastic wrap

Step 1
Add all the ingredients into the pan and mix them together using the whisk.

Step 2
Once all the ingredients are blended together, put the pan on the stove, with the heat set on medium to medium-high and continue to stir.

Step 3
Keep on stirring until the mixture is thick. This may take 3 to 4 minutes for the mixture to thicken.

Step 4
Once the mixture is thick and becomes difficult to stir, remove the pan from the stove and put the dough on the floured surface.

Step 5
Once the dough has cooled down, knead the dough in the same way that you would knead bread dough.

Step 6
When the play dough is no longer sticky, remove it from the floured surface.

Step 7
Continue to knead the play dough until all the flour on the play dough has been absorbed into the play dough and the play dough is smooth.

And... you're done! It really is this easy to make play dough at home. All it takes is 7 easy steps to make great play dough right in the comfort of your own home. All that's left for you to do is enjoy playing with the play dough!

You've got some great homemade playdough, what next? Well, the next step is to play with the playdough and make some great things out of it. How? Well, here are some very creative playdough ideas to help you our.


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