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Homemade Play Dough

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December 16, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We’ve been having lots of fun with Christmas activities this week…

Tori’s gingerbread play dough reindeer…
Gingerbread Playdough Reindeer
Santa paper plate packing popcorn craft. I used googly eyes, a pink pom pom for the nose, and a shaped pipe cleaner for the mouth
Santa Plate Craft
Tori and Katie pretend to eat their gingerbread babies…
Pretending to Eat Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread Baby
They pasted their eaten gingerbread babies in their booklets.
Gingerbread Baby Booklets

We made homemade play dough!

Homemade Play Dough
I made gingerbread play dough (with spices smells great!) and snow play dough (plain with sparkly glitter).
 
We broke out the cookie cutters and played with play dough for quite a long time this morning.
 
Preschool girls loved playing with the yummy smelling playdough.
Katie did not like to be interrupted for a picture.
Gingerbread Play Dough
Toddler Alex thought all this was just awesome.
Toddler Play Dough Time
Even the Big Girl Elizabeth had to play with the play dough!
She showed off her “cookies.”
Big Girl Play Dough Time

Super easy play dough recipe:

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Play Dough

Ingredients

  • 2 cups AP flour
  • 2 cups warm water
  • 1 cup salt
  • 2 T vegetable oil
  • 1 T cream of tartar

Instructions

  1. Mix ingredients gently, folding all the flour in, over low/medium heat in a nonstick pan until formed into a ball.

    Knead carefully (it’s hot!) until desired elasticity.

Add stuff:

Spices. Sprinkle in some cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger for gingerbread play dough – or apple pie spice or pumpkin pie spice – or whatever you love.

Essential Oil. We love using Citrus, Peppermint, or Lavender.

Glitter or Food Coloring. Sparkle and color just add to the fun!

My kids like to play with the play dough while it’s still warm.

How to Use:

We use all sorts of fun tools like real cookie cutters (love these alphabet and numbers cookie cutters!), rolling pins, dough tools that extrude, squish, and cut it.

We have two Activity Centers that provide stencils and working surfaces to keep my floor clean.

Store in an airtight container or zipper bag. We keep ours in the fridge to stay fresh longer.

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  1. The Zookeeper says

    December 16, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    Looks like some wonderful fun!!!!!! I tried to “make homemade play doh” one time and that was enough!!!!!! LOL it was HORRIBLE…… Glad yours turned out better than mine!!

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