Each year our family participates in the Kris Kringle at Christmas time and our kids buy or make a present for their cousins that costs between $5.00 – $10.00 per child. We love encouraging the Christmas spirit of giving and this year we have decided to make homemade playdough as our gift which has been so fun and a great learning activity for our children. Here’s how we made it:
What you need:
1. Plastic containers with a screw top – I bought mine from Kmart for $1 each.
2. Labels – again I bought these at Kmart in the home office section.
3. Playdough ingredients
4. Texta to write on the labels
5. Glitter if you wish to make sparkle dough.
6. Essence or essential oils if you wish to make “smelly” dough!
Playdough ingredients
• 2 cups Plain Flour
• ¾ – 1 cup salt
• 2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon of oil
• 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar
• food colouring
• glitter
Method
1. Place water in a saucepan
2. Add food colouring to desired colour and stir
3. Add flour, salt, oil and cream of tartar to the water solution
4. Continuously stir over a medium heat until it turns into play dough
5. Allow to cool.
6. Mix in glitter by hand if you are making glittery playdough or add your essence or oils. We made batch with vanilla essence and one with rosewater.
7. We then separated each batch of dough into ball shapes and I wrapped them in gladwrap just to ensure they stayed moist up until Christmas and added them to the containers.
8. Added the stickers and drew creative names on each container which was loads of fun.
We hope you enjoy making these as much as we did.
Nikki x