
It is so quick and easy to make this Homemade Playdough recipe. Your kids can help, and everyone will love learning how to make easy homemade playdough.
My kids love to get creative, and they absolutely love Playdough. I love allowing my kids to be creative and help out in the kitchen and this week we tackled the best Homemade Playdough recipe. It is very easy and comes together in just 15 minutes!
I also love to make Color Changing Homemade Playdough with the kids for another fun activity.
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Why We Love This Recipe
The process of mixing the playdough is super simple and adding the color is so fun for the little ones. Kids get the hands-on experience of watching liquid turn into dough and can start playing with it within minutes.
Best of all your kids can choose the color they want. Kids love that part!
You can make a batch with common grocery store ingredients.

Playdough Ingredients
- 1 Cup of Flour
- ½ Cup Salt
- 2 tsp Cream of Tartar
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil
- Food Coloring. Optional but adds even more fun.
Step By Step Instructions

Step 1. Grab your saucepan or large pot and start placing all of your ingredients in. Place the all purpose flour and other dry ingredients, water and vegetable oil and mix the ingredients well.

Step 2. Place on the stove on a low temperature and continue stirring with a wooden spoon until the sides start un-sticking from the pan. Do not boil.

Step 3. Now is the time to add in the drops of food coloring to the mixture. I added in about 15 drops because I wanted my playdough to be really vibrant.

Step 4. Stir all the food coloring in and wait for the liquid to turn into a dough ball consistency.

Step 5. Once the cooking process is complete, remove from the pan and lay on foil or wax paper to dry for about 5 minutes. Kneading the dough as needed until the correct texture.

Step 6. Finally, that let the kids play with this fun homemade play dough recipe.
Storage
Put the playdough inside airtight containers when you aren’t using.

Pro Tips
- Adjust the salt. You can adjust to ⅓ cup of salt if needed for this play dough recipe.
- Use cookie cutters. Kids can be so creative and can make balls, houses, fish and lots more. I brought out some heart cookie cutters and my kids had so much fun making hearts out of the fresh playdough.
- Wax Paper makes clean up easy. It is also a great idea to have wax paper on hand to easily roll the playdough out and keep your counters clean. This really makes for easy clean up and it’s cheaper than playdough mats.
- Food coloring. I like to add only a few drops of food coloring, so it does not get too messy. I like gel food coloring for really vibrant colors in this diy playdough recipe.
- Essential Oils. You can add essential oils to the playdough if you would like.
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Make the best playdough recipe today for a fun and easy craft. It will be so much fun for the kids. Then leave a comment once you make it and share what color you made.