Sometimes it is fabulous to have a trick or two up your sleeve for when you need a quick craft or activity to save the day. My ULTIMATE, Easy, No Cook Playdough Recipe is definitely one trick that needs to be up there friends. Five minutes to make, and lasts for 6 months! I am not over selling it — this playdough recipe is awesome.
It is no secret that we are big into quiet time activities around here. Whenever my little ones get over the top excited, or ideally just before this happens, we try to do some activities to help keep them grounded (as in feet on the ground instead of my couches and tables).
Most of those activities come, of course, from our magical and oh so simple Quiet Bins! (I really don’t know what we did before quiet bins.)
One quiet time activity that has been making an appearance in one fashion or another is the good old playdough. Whether we are making a candy cane factory, decorating Christmas trees, or doing some construction, playdough has been fabulous to help my little ones settle down just for awhile.
Well, there is more to love about this playdough recipe than simply … well … the awesome playdough that results.
“More?!?!” You gasp? (You did gasp in astonishment, right?)
Yes! More! This playdough recipe is so easy to make, the making of the playdough is actually a brilliant activity for children in itself!
This FREE Visual Playdough Recipe is a visual recipe, perfect for children. Now they can really take the lead with making playdough!
So print off that visual recipe for your little one, and let’s dive into this no cooking required playdough recipe. I bring you my Kindergarten Teacher No Bake Playdough Recipe. Hope you love it!
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As a Kindergarten teacher you learn a few things. Along with how to find missing mittens, boots, and teeth as quick as lightening, you learn to make a mean batch of Playdough.
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While I am now home almost completely with my own little ones, that playdough recipe is still used often. This is the EASIEST no cook playdough recipe around. And I argue it is also the very best playdough recipe too.
The Ultimate No-Cook Kindergarten Teacher Playdough Recipe
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 cup of boiling water
Directions
Dump all the dry ingredients into the bowl and mix it all together.
Then add in the boiling water, oil and stir. You can add the food colouring directly to the boiling water if you prefer for nice, easy colour mixing.
Or if you want different colours, you can add the food colouring at the end into the divided playdough.
Knead a few times and it will become perfectly smooth. And I do mean perfectly smooth. Not only is this playdough just about as easy as possible to make and completely impossible to ruin, but it is also so, dreamily silky smooth.
I love this particular playdough recipe as even very little ones can help in almost the whole recipe. The order of ingredients doesn’t matter at all—just pop it all into a bowl and stir it up!
PLUS you can’t mess it up! Too sticky? Add more flour. Too clumpy? Add more boiled water.
You can mix in some essential oils if you have any, vanilla, or cinnamon. A fellow Mama who reads my blog made this recipe with coconut flour as a gluten-free option. You truly can’t go wrong!
Playdough is fabulous for strengthening little hands for future writing. It is also a great way to play with letters! This is our favourite cookie cutter set to use with playdough {I am an Amazon consult and will receive a small commission if purchased, at no extra cost to you}.
And if you are looking for some inspiration with ideas for exactly what to do with this simple playdough, check out all of these awesome Playdough Activities!
I hope this playdough recipe is just the trick that you have been needing up your sleeve! Perfect for a rainy day, sunny day, ANY day!
Thank you so much for reading,
xo
Sarah
