This Jello playdough recipe is another great craft project you can do with your kids to make a toy you can produce time and time again. Jello ads scent and color to your homemade playdough making it one of the most fun and interesting ways to make your own. It is fairly complicated to make compared to some other playdough recipes and it is definitely not for kids to be doing on their own as their is come careful cooking involved. Although this is not a recipe for kids to make you can quite easily make it with them as a craft or toy project. It makes a pretty nice playdough if you can get the cooking just right, with a really nice texture and shape.
Jello Playdough Recipe
Ingredients for this Jello playdough recipe:
- white flour – 1 cup
- salt – 2 tbsp
- cream of tartar – 2 tbsp
- cooking oil – 2 tbsp
- warm water – 1 cup
- Jello – 1 3oz pack
Directions for this Jello playdough recipe:
- Add all the ingredients together in a big mixing bowl
- Mix all the ingredients together until consistent
- Pour into a pan and stir continuously
- Wait for it to thicken into a big ball and then place it on a piece of wax paper to cool
- Kneed it for a few minutes once cooled with some flour
- Add any food coloring or glitter to spice things up!
- Start playing!
This is one of the most fun you can make so make sure to give it a try once you’ve mastered some simpler recipes! Be careful because Jello Playdough burns easily, so make sure you cook it on low heat and keep stirring. If you store it in an air tight refrigerated container you can keep it for quite a few days.
I just made the playdoh using regular lime jello. I cooked it on low medium for about 5 minutes. You will know when it is ready because it turns into a big ball. Cannot wait for it cool down.
I tried this and it was a flop. Nowhere in the instructions does it say to cook anything. It just says to mix everything together in a bowl and stir continuously. Is it supposed to be cooked?
When cooking this–or any–playdough, use a medium to large frying pan with a non-stick surface. Stirring and clean-up are very, very easy. The larger cooking surface allows faster cooking and easier flipping of the dough. Electric fry pans work well…if they are non-stick. I have made playdough for years for Head Start children, and am always looking for the easiest and least messy approach. I also reduce the amount of salt in most of the recipes, too much salt=dry and crusty little fingers.
Hey, if it’s really a huge issue on whether to use cooking oil or baby oil, why not substitute another skin-healthy and edible oil? Olive oil is good for skin and so is coconut oil. It may be a little bit more expensive but it’s not like a lot of oil is used to make this. I actually use coconut oil as a lotion and it has cleared up a lot of my skin problems! Not to mention that it is 100% edible; some people even use it as a butter substitute.
This is a really great for sensory play, I am excited to try this. fI am going to see how it works with coconut oil. That would certainly be great for the skin and safe to be ingested. I just know what will work for me and I would only use food safe ingredients.
Can you make this with unflavored/colorless gelatin and add color later? That’s all I got on the shelf!
Re: UK Jello question – If it’s like Australia, you’d be looking for jelly (gelatin). Jello is a eponym, a name brand that has become the common usage name.