Making your own play dough is a piece of cake with our easy play dough recipe. This is a fun and surprisingly soothing craft project for grown ups and children to enjoy together. Simply raid your kitchen for a few store cupboard essentials and watch our video tutorial to find out how to make play dough. We'll talk you through the ingredients for play dough and how to turn them into your very own dough, step by step. It should only take you half an hour in total to make your dough.
This is a really great kids craft activity for a rainy day – little ones will love helping you mix the ingredients and watching the dough magically form in front of their eyes. You can add a personal touch to your dough by switching up the food colouring that you add, or turn it into intergalactic play dough (you know you want to) by adding glitter. This recipe will make quite a large batch of play dough – enough to easily entertain 3 or 4 children for days and weeks. But if you'd prefer smaller amounts, try halving the recipe to make smaller batches.
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Ingredients for play dough
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