How to make play dough, it only takes 1 minute! Everyone loves play dough- even I have to have a squeeze when we get it out! But you don’t need to buy the ready made brands, here is the recipe I use to make dough for a last minute playdate at home.
1 Minute Playdough recipe:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of salt
1 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of cream of tartar (Cream of Tartar is a natural powdered raising agent for use in scones and other baking recipes)
1 tablespoon of oil
I cup of boiling water (from the kettle) mixed with some food colouring
What to do:
Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and then mix vigourously with the hot water.
Et voila! Makes playdough which lasts for ages in little plastic sandwich bags!
You can leave the dough uncoloured if you wish but kids love the different colours to mould, so if you end up with food colouring all over your hands (like I did!) here is how to get it off!
If it takes you several attempts, this is normal. Food colourings can be hard to get off! Alternatively you could wear rubber gloves in the first place when you are mixing but I didn’t think ahead for this at the time. There was play dough to make!
Enjoy your low cost way to entertain the children on a rainy day!
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What a lovely easy recipe for play dough, my Little Man loves the stuff. Good tips for getting food colouring off too, I make celebration cakes which means lots of food colouring for the icing and I’ve often got multi coloured fingers.
I always wanted to know how to do this and now I know, so my day is made x
haha glad to hear it!
This has always been my go to recipe too. Once the dough is cooled the food colouring does not transfer
Such a great easy recipe. I never think about making play dough but it’s something I need to remember for those rainy days! Thanks I’ll make sure I bookmark this page.
Glad to be of help!
Wow so easy!! Why have I never made this before?
I know – super easy eh?
A great simple recipe there, we’ve made it before but I think it was more involved than this and didn’t last well
I have yet to make play dough and I have no idea why, it really does seem so straightforward plus my youngest would love to have a go at making it with me so I really must do it one rainy day soon!!
Good luck with it!
The big question is, does it smell the same, lol? I do love the smell of the real thing!
hehe not quite, but by sight you can’t tell the difference!
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