Making homemade play dough is one of the most simple and most fun activities to do with your children!
It costs very little, and most of the ingredients you probably already have in your house!
This is the recipe I use:
Kool-Aid Play Dough
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 pkg unsweetened kool-aid
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons oil
- 1 cup boiling water
*Side note – my son thinks that kool aid packages are for the purpose of making play dough because we don’t drink that stuff!
Directions: Mix dry ingredients while water is heating up. Add oil and boiling water. Knead for 5-10 minutes or until dough like consistency. Store in airtight container!
It is really neat to make because when you mix the dry ingredients you don’t really see the color granules from the kool aid – and then as you slowly pour in the boiling water make sure your child is watching, because like magic the mixture turns into the color of the kool-aid!
Bizz adding the green kool aid to one mixture (we made two batches)!
I let Bizz help me add all the dry ingredients and mix them well. Then I added the boiling water and mixed with a fork for a few minutes until it was cool enough to touch. Then we took turns kneading it!
Both bowls after the hot water was added - Blue & Green!
Here is the dough after being mixed before being kneaded.
Bizz showing off the finished product!
Have fun and go make some play dough!!!
~Jesse
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Homemade play-dough is the best! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
My pleasure – hope your family enjoys it as much as mine 🙂
It’s so cheep to buy, but making it is so much more fun!
It is, half the time my son is so excited to make it – and we make it, and then he doesn’t want to play with it he just wants to make more 🙂