Looking for a fun activity that keeps little hands busy while keeping things clean and simple? This homemade play dough is easy to make with ingredients you may already have in your kitchen and you can create fun colours using natural ingredients!
It’s a fun DIY for a rainy afternoon, a weekend activity, or whenever you’re looking for something creative to do together. 🎨
The best part? You can skip the artificial colours and experiment with colourful ingredients from nature.
🎨 Natural Colours to Try
Give your play dough a little colour using:
- 🌿 Spirulina — for green
- 💛 Turmeric — for yellow
- ❤️ Beet powder — for red
- 💙 Freeze-dried blueberries — for blue
Start with about 1/2 teaspoon of your chosen natural colour and adjust as needed to get the shade you like. We find 1 teaspoon often is the sweet spot.
🧂 Natural Play Dough Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- ¼ cup salt
- 1 Tbsp cream of tartar
- 1 Tbsp oil
- 1 Cup Hot water
- 1 Tbsp natural colouring of your choice
Directions
1. Mix the dry ingredients.
Add the flour, salt, cream of tartar (this is the magic ingredient that makes your dough super soft) and your chosen natural colour to a bowl and mix.
2. Add the water.
Pour in about half of the hot water and mix everything together.
3. Find your perfect consistency.
Too dry? Slowly add more hot water, mixing as you go, until the dough reaches your ideal play dough consistency. Too wet? Add back a little flour.
4. Make it an sensory experience.
Add a drop of your favourite essential oil to make it an olfactory experience. Try lavender for calming, citrus to uplift or thieves blend to ward off germs and sicknesses.
5. Play! 🎨
Now it’s ready for little hands to shape, squish, roll, and create!
Save this recipe for your next play day and let the creativity begin!
