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Homemade Play-Doh with Jade

February 9, 2015 by Erin Vincent 6 Comments

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Play-Doh is a basic of childhood. We have all played with it, made weird looking creatures with it, even eaten it. You know you have! The texture, color and mold-ability is what brings children to it time after time. My 2 year old daughter Jade is a play-doh fanatic.  She received her first official play – doh on her birthday in November. It has been a whirlwind love affair between her and the colorful doh. She loves putting small blocks, buttons, sticks and shells into the colorful doh. She calls it her “Cupcakes”.

Homemade Play-Doh

It has been two months since she received her play-doh. Unfortunately Jade has a habits of leaving it out to dry. So, she is out of doh and she has asked me daily for her “Cupcakes”.  I have decided to make a large batch of play-doh today. I looked up some You Tube video on making it and found I already had all of the ingredients needed.

Homemade Play-Doh

Here is what you need:

In one large bowl mix…

  • 5 cups of Flour    (I added more flour as I kneaded the doh)
  • 2 cups of salt

In 3 separate smaller bowls, mix into each bowl…

  • 2 Tbsp. oil
  • 1 cap full of food coloring  (we used red, blue, and green food coloring)
  • 1 cup of water

Homemade Play-Doh

Add 1 cup of flour mixture into a smaller bowl containing oil water mixture and mix well. Add another cup of flour to oil mixture a little at a time, mixing well. Sprinkle flour onto cutting board and put oil/flour mixture onto cutting board. Knead play -doh adding more flour as needed until consistency is reached. This will make 3 bowls of play-doh.

This was a really fun and messy adventure. Jade helped through out the whole experience and she really enjoyed herself. If you have the time and do not mind the clean up, then I highly recommend making play-doh with your little ones!

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About Erin Vincent

Erin is a writer, blogger, and homeschooler to two intense kids. She loves nature, farm life, good books, knitting, new pens, and hot coffee. Erin is a contributing writer for Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Her work has also been featured on Simple Homeschool and Book Shark.

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  1. Coombe Mill says

    March 4, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    What fun, I’ve never made play doh but l love the idea. Jade looks very happy there.

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    • Erin Vincent says

      March 4, 2015 at 8:20 pm

      She loves making a mess! So, yes she loved making play-doh…it is rather messy until you get the right consistency 🙂

      Reply
  2. Karen Bell says

    March 2, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    We made lavender play dough and loved it. Yours looks very pretty and it’s lovely Jade got to help make it.
    I love the accessories she uses to play with the play dough to make creations. Thanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids

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    • Erin Vincent says

      March 2, 2015 at 2:03 pm

      Ooooh, Lavender sounds lovely! I loved letting Jade get messy during the making of the play doh. I had as much fun as she did 🙂

      Reply
  3. Jennifer - The Deliberate Mom says

    February 13, 2015 at 11:36 pm

    I love homemade play dough! I make a mean Kool-Aid scented dough. It turns out perfect every single time.

    Good call on adding shells… such a great way to extend the experience.

    Wishing you a lovely weekend.
    xoxo

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    • Erin Vincent says

      February 18, 2015 at 12:41 am

      Ooooh, Kool-Aid Scented?! I would love that recipe!

      Thank You for stopping by!

      Reply

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