Saturday, December 18, 2010

Holiday Scented Playdough

I have to admit that I've never made homemade playdough before. I have to say, I'm impressed! I thought it would come out greasy or grainy, but its just like the store bought stuff. Its also super easy to make. Since Christmas is next week, I wanted the playdough to smell like Christmas, so I made Peppermint Playdough and Gingerbread Playdough.

Peppermint Play-Dough
 (It really is pink, the pic is not the best)
What you'll need:
  • 2 Cups Flour
  • 1 Cup Iodine Salt
  • 4 Teaspoons Cream of Tarter
  • 4 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
  • 2 Cups Water 
  • 3 Teaspoons Peppermint Extract
  • Few drops red food coloring
~Add peppermint extract and red food coloring to water. Measure flour, salt, cream of tartar and vegetable oil into a heavy, medium size sauce pan. Pour water mixture into dry ingredients, mix well.
~Cook over low heat, stir the mixture contentiously until it begins to thicken and pull away from the sides of the sauce pan.
~ Remove the mixture from the burner. Once the mixture is cool enough to handle, kneed until consistency of playdough. Store in a ziplock back up to a few weeks.

Gingerbread Play-Dough
What you'll need:
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup salt
  • 4 tsp cream of tartar or alum
  • 5 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp cloves
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 Tbsp. oil
~Combine the dry ingredients in a saucepan.  Add the water and oil and mix well.
~Cook over medium high heat, stirring frequently, until the mixture begins to thicken and pull away from the sides of the sauce pan.
~Remove the mixture from heat and knead when cooled enough to handle.  Store in a ziplock bag when cooled to keep from drying out.  


8 comments:

April said...

hi! i'm following from the mom blog monday blog hop! i'd love if you could visit my blog and follow back :)

this looks like a fun project!

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april

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Jodi said...

Very cool! My kids love play dough. :)

I am a new follower of yours from the Mom Blog Monday blog hop.

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Mika said...

My daughter would love that!
Hi,
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Erica K said...

I make homemade playdough but never thought of making it scented. Thanks for this post.

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The Sheridans said...

My daughter is going to love this! I am following you from the blog hop! I would love it if you followed me back!!

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The Frugal Free Gal said...

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I may try this with my daughter after the holidays! :) She would love this!

Cindy said...

When my kids were younger we used to make play dough often...never thought to add different scents, probably tastes much better!

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Lesa said...

I wanna try this with my kids this week!
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