Playdough Recipe for Kids

By on May 18, 2010 in Playdough Recipes

If you are looking for the easiest homemade playdough recipe around, this is it. Not only do you not have to cook at all, but the instructions are very simple which makes this a great playdough recipe for kids! For how simple this recipe is it produces great playdough and makes a great recipe to teach kids because it is so simple. You won’t find an easier recipe for playdough anywhere. Just make sure you keep an eye on them and pour the boiling water yourself! It’s easy for the place to turn into a warzone with kids making playdough!

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Playdough Recipe for Kids

Ingredients for this easy no cooking playdough recipe:

  • flour – 1 cups
  • boiling water – 1 cups
  • cream of tartar – 1 tbsp
  • salt – 0.5 cups
  • cooking oil – 1 tbsp

Directions for this easy no cooking playdough recipe:


  • Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl until consistent
  • You’re done! Start playing!

It’s hard to beat this playdough recipe for shear simplicity, though it isn’t quite as exciting as the pumpkin pie playdough recipe or the kool-aid playdough recipe. It’s great for teaching to kids and if your kids are a bit older they can probably do it themselves. Just make sure to watch out using that boiling water! Enjoy!

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13 Responses to Playdough Recipe for Kids

  1. Renee Pierpont September 13, 2010 at 3:48 pm #

    My girl scouts love this!

  2. Playdough Chef September 15, 2010 at 7:22 pm #

    Glad to hear it!

  3. Regina November 17, 2010 at 10:14 pm #

    .5 cups of salt?? ahhh could you dumb this down for me I dont know what that is.

  4. Playdough Chef November 17, 2010 at 11:16 pm #

    .5 cups = 4 US fluid ounces
    .5 cups = 60 grams

    Hope that helps.

  5. Only1h.tiller November 18, 2010 at 9:43 pm #

    .5 cups = 1/2 cup

  6. Playdough Chef November 18, 2010 at 9:49 pm #

    That too.

  7. Becky August 6, 2011 at 2:30 pm #

    How do you get the colors so incredably bright?

  8. Playdough Chef August 8, 2011 at 10:31 pm #

    Add a fair bit of food coloring and that should do the trick.

  9. newbieteacher August 26, 2011 at 1:29 am #

    How much playdough does this recipe yield? How should I scale this recipe for a class of 30 kids?

  10. Kim Trang February 22, 2012 at 3:55 am #

    Here in Vietname we can’t buy cream of tartar. Can I still make play dough without it?
    I understand it’s for elestiek of the play dough. Maybe u can advice me to use something else in state of creame of tartar.

    Tks,

    Kim

  11. Tosha July 1, 2012 at 9:13 pm #

    I made this without the cream of tartar, and it worked perfectly. If anyone is refilling old play-do containers, this recipe makes enough to completely fill two regular size containers and one small one. So you could split it evenly and have three almost-full regular size containers, with three different colors..

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