This homemade Play Dough Recipe is super soft and smells delicious!
That’s right we are sharing today my favorite homemade Kool-Aid Play Dough Recipe today!
How fun is this?
This is an awesome and easy recipe.
Your kids will love it and it is a perfect activity for the weekends and school breaks.
The colors come from the different Kool-Aid flavors and the playdough smells yummy.
Here is the recipe!
- 1 Cup Flour
- ¼ Cup Salt
- 1 Packet Kool-Aid
- ⅔ Cup Water *You will end up using between ½ and ⅔ cup.
- 1 Tb. Oil
- Mix the flour, the salt, and the Kool-Aid together.
- Boil the water.
- Add the oil to the water.
- Pour some of the water into the dry ingredients and mix with a spoon. Keep adding water and work the dough until the color is uniform and feels like playdough.
I thought it would be fun to put the playdough inside of Easter Eggs for Easter.
If you want to do this make sure to first add tape to the inside of the eggs.
The eggs come with small holes and you want to cover them so they become air tight,
this way the play dough doesn’t dry.
I found these clear small 2 oz. containers in the paper plate aisle at Wal-Mart.
They came in a bag of 50 cups with lids.
I ended up using 42 of them… I know, I made 7 batches of playdough, one for each Kool-Aid color.
If you decide to use these small mini cups divide the playdough in 6 equal balls.
Each batch should give you enough playdough to fill six containers of one color.
Give this Kool-Aid playdough recipe a try with your little kiddos.
Mine loved to help me mix the dough.
A fun thing about it is that you won’t know what color it is going to turn out until the water is added.
The little ones get so excited trying to guess what color the playdough is going to be.
It is so pretty and so much fun to make!
I hope you give it a try!
Here is another fun project that my kids loved.
Click here to see how to make Glitter Slime.
Don’t you think this playdough will make adorable Easter Basket stuffers?
We do!
So we made a little free printable toppers that you can use to decorate the small playdough cups
or use them as cupcake toppers for Easter. Click here to print them!
Anyways, I better go. Make sure you have a wonderful day!
Besos
Desirée
I am sharing our Kool-Aid Playdough over at these awesome link parties.
What KOOLAID flavors did you use? THe colors are bright! Thanks! LOVE this idea!
Ooh my sons will LOVE this! SO FUN!!! I popped over from Tatertots & Jello– thanks for sharing!
~Abby =)
Great idea for my great gradkids
Hice la plasti esta manana con las ninas y vaya éxito!! Y que bien huele!! Gracias como siempre por todas estas ideas tan guays y sencillas a la vez. Besos!
De nada Ali y disfruta con tus niñas… Gracias por la visita!
Super cute, Desiree! Fantastic idea… pinning it 🙂
<3 Christina @ I Gotta Create!
Thank you Christina!
Thanks for sharing, def going to make this with the grands, but do you use self-rising or plain flour. Thanks!
Joy, plain flour. Have fun!
What big and little kid doesn’t like playdough!! We love making this and I love that it SMELLS so much better 😉 I LOVE how you added it to the plastic eggs, so cute!! And those plastic containers from wal-mart, GENIUS!!! I am going to have to get some of those, those would be great to take along when we eat out. ( it provides just the right, amount ).
Thanks for sharing this!
xo
Angelina
You have got to be the funnest mom ever!!! You always have the best projects for the kids. Even though my kids are almost all teens- they will still play with playdough. They just make more elaborate things now 🙂 We will be doing this for those rainy days for sure. Thanks Desiree- have a fabulous weekend!
I adore you Gina! Thank you for taking the time to always make me feel good… Have a wonderful weekend my love!
This is such a cute idea. Does the kool aid stain your hands when you play with it?
I don’t want to hand it out to my son’s daycare for Easter if it’ll stain everybody up. Thanks!
Kelly, it won’t. Make sure to stop by tomorrow to get the small Easter printable tags for the containers. They are adorable!
I think we will do this after school today…we’ve been stuck inside for play time. Kate will love this!
Have fun Jessica… She is going to love it.