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Playdough Recipe

Playdough recipe via Childhood 101

Cooked Playdough Recipe

You will need:

  • 2 cups of plain flour
  • 1 cup of salt
  • 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar
  • 2 tablespoons of cooking oil
  • 2 cups of water

To make:

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and stir over a medium heat for 3-5 minutes. The dough should form a ball. Continue to turn over on the heat for another 1-2 minutes. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured board and knead until smooth as it cools.

To colour:

You have two options – add liquid food colouring directly to the saucepan or add a few drops of liquid food colouring to the ball of cooked dough and knead until the colour is fully distributed.

Do you have a favourite homemade playdough recipe?

Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

Filed Under: Play Recipes, Sensory Play Tagged With: playdough, sculpture projects for kids

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Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. Amanda Eastment says

    March 4, 2014 at 10:40 AM

    That's our favourite one too. Nothing like a freshly cooked batch of coloured play dough.
    • Christie Burnett says

      March 6, 2014 at 10:16 AM

      Play dough is the best :)
  2. angella pearson says

    May 9, 2014 at 9:34 AM

    Excellent play dough recipe
    • Christie Burnett says

      May 13, 2014 at 8:46 PM

      Thanks, Angella :)

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