If you are looking for a fun project to do with your kids to keep them busy but don’t feel like making a huge mess, I have just the thing for you. Homemade play dough still requires ingredients and measuring but I would say it’s more of a small to medium level mess. It’s super fun and you can use different food coloring and extract to mix up the colors and scents. Tis the season for everything pumpkin so I recommend pumpkin spice but scents like maple are also really fun. You can then do a guessing/voting game to figure out which one is the best.
You will need:
- Salt (2/3 cup)
- Flour (2 cups)
- Cream of Tartar (4 Tbsp)
- Oil (2 Tbsp)
- Food coloring (think fall colors)
- Cinnamon
- Maple Extract
- Pumpkin Extract or Pumpkin Spice (I used ground all spice but highly recommend pumpkin)
- Water (2 cups)
- Optional Wax Paper/Parchment Paper
- Optional Glitter/Sprinkles
- Optional Cookie Cutters (think fall like leaves and pumpkin shapes)
Directions: (watch the video for a full how-to)
- In a large bowl, mix Salt, flour and cream of tartar
- Add oil to a large skillet (no heat heat)
- Add mixed dry ingredients to the skillet
- Add in water
- Turn heat on low to medium and give it a good stir
- It will start off resembling pancake batter but after a few minutes will thicken
- Continue to stir until it’s no longer gooey
- Turn off heat
- Allow to cool then transfer onto parchment or wax paper
- Split into three even parts
- Pick a theme for each of the parts
Recommendations:
- Apple Pie- use red food coloring and cinnamon, add to the dough and knead until it smells like apple pie
- Pumpkin- use food coloring, add in pumpkin extract/spice (here is where I used all spice) until it smells like pumpkin
- Maple- just like the others, knead in food coloring and maple extract until it smells like maple
- Add in glitter/sprinkles if you like and use cookie cutters to make fall shapes.
Have fun!
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