21 Christmas Playdough Ideas
Inside: These Christmas playdough ideas and festive playdough recipes will keep your young children happily playing and creating all through the holidays.
Our preschooler loves playdough and a recent fascination with the story of The Gingerbread Man has inspired her to make wonderful collections of playdough gingerbread men with sequins, tiny buttons and googly eyes as features. To extend her interest I recently went looking for more Christmas playdough ideas and today I have collected together 21 fun and festive ways to play.
21 Christmas Playdough Ideas
1. Start out by adding the scent of Christmas to your homemade playdough with this Peppermint Playdough recipe.
2. Or what could be more delicious than this Hot Chocolate Playdough recipe? This article includes three fun ways to play too.
3. Another delicious choice has to be Gingerbread Latte Playdough! From Crafts on Sea.
4. Although you might prefer a Christmas Pudding inspired playdough. Via Sunhats and Wellie Boots.
5. Then there’s this Vanilla Mint Scented Playdough from Mama. Papa. Bubba – yum!
6. For a more traditional Christmas scent, try this Orange & Clove playdough recipe from NurtureStore.
7. Though maybe Egg Nog scented playdough is more your style? Via Playodugh to Plato.
8. Or Playdough with Christmas Cranberries! From Natural Beach Living.
9. We love Buggy & Buddy’s Gingerbread Scented recipe.
10. Anna of The Imagination Tree’s Snowy White Playdough is sure to inspire all sorts of festive creations. We particularly love her snowy stars.
And once you’ve decided upon your festive homemade playdough of choice, here are some awesome Christmas playdough ideas for getting the kids playing and creating;
11. Kate at Picklebums shares a collection of fabulous printable Christmas playdough mats.
12. Or you could add Cathy of NurtureStore’s printable mini Christmas puppets to your playdough play.
13. Why not build a playdough snowman! Via Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds.
14. Or make reindeers as part of Pre-K Pages Roll a Reindeer Playdough Math Game.
15. Or match letters with this ABC Playdough Reindeer Match. Via Fantastic Fun and Learning.
16. Add some tinsel to your playdough for some extra sensory fun! Via Laughing Kids Learn.
17. Make time for some Christmas counting with these printable Christmas Tree Playdough Math Mats from PreKinders.
18. Make Christmas Angels with this holiday invitation to create from NurtureStore.
19. Clare’s Little Tots invites children to create their very own playdough Christmas trees.
20. Make and decorate 3 dimensional playdough Christmas trees with Taming Little Monsters.
21. And finally, a Magic Foaming Snowman from Foaming Dough is just too cool! Thanks for the inspiration Fun At Home With Kids.
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Thank you so much for including our hot chocolate play dough with play dough marshmallows – there are so many gorgeous ideas on here! I’m excited to try the natural cranberry, and print off those play dough mats!