Best Ever Scented Playdough Recipe

Inside: Our tips for the best ever scented playdough recipe!

We love homemade playdough here at Childhood 101 central and I am always looking for fun ways to enhance the sensory play potential of the next batch of dough. We’ve added rice for texture, glitter for sparkle, homemade berry dye for colour, and so much more, in fact we gathered together twelve great homemade playdough recipes for you to try.

With this, our latest experiment,  I think I may just have found the easiest way to add lovely, rich scent to homemade playdough…

Best Scented Playdough Recipe

…it certainly passes the toddler sniff test!

So what’s the secret ingredient?

HERBAL TEA!

I simply brewed a strong batch of herbal tea (two cups of water to three tea bags) and used it in exchange of the water in my regular homemade playdough recipe.

In this case I used a Cranberry, Raspberry and Strawberry blend and the scent was magnificent. We have also experimented with a Lemon and Ginger blend and Peppermint herbal teas – these scents have been just as lovely and fragrant but not quite as strong. I would imagine the end result depends upon the natural qualities of the tea’s ingredients and the strength of the individual brand of tea – play around with the number of bags you use until you find a result you love.

Whichever blend you choose, Immy tells me that scented playdough is perfect for making embellished star lollipops…

… and AJ just loves sticking things in it!

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