Colorful Homemade Playdough

Great recipe for little toddler hands!! I halved the recipe and had enough to make 3 colors (lemon lime: green, black cherry: red and blue raspberry: blue) for my 15 month old. It’s definitely not tasty, which I feel like is a good thing bc it allowed her to put it in her mouth without me panicking, but made her realize play dough isn’t for eating. We used some toddler cookie cutters and a toddler knife sets to practice cutting, simple shapes, and colors!

Great, easy recipe! I did add in a little bit more flour while mixing and kneading. I didn’t knead very long tho, just until it felt like you could have fun with it. I made the whole batch as directed, then separated into 7 roughly 120g balls and kneaded in food coloring! So pretty, and fun!

made some beautiful “outer space playdough” by adding black food dye and glitter for a preschool activity. the kids absolutely loved it!!

While the recipe and instructions were simple, the end result was AWFUL. I made this with my young nieces in hopes of a fun activity and snack but the taste was beyond bad. Too salty and not sweet or appetizing.

The recipe itself was great but we did have to end up adding more flour in order to make a good deal. For toddler fingers like I mentioned in another comment I could see why a softer deal would be nice but we were looking for something that would actually hold it shape. We did use food coloring instead of Kool-Aid packets and there wasn’t any problem with finger staining.

This was perfect! I have no complaints

It wasent that good..

I had to add at least a half cup more flour than called for. The consistency was completely wrong. However, once the consistency was right, this play dough was perfect. The scent of the kool aid packets was great and my kids played with it for at least an hour. I’ll keep it in the fridge for later.

Easy recipe to make with the kids! We used food coloring since we didn’t have Kool Aid on hand, and no issues with staining so far. We also chilled it in the fridge for a few minutes after kneading which took care of any remaining stickiness.

Wonderfully easy. Not very messy.

This definitely works as play dough and I like knowing exactly what my kids are handling for hours vs the store bought version that smells like…well I have no idea, which is the problem. I didn’t completely consider the amount of salt going into this before making it and figured “edible” meant safe for all of my kiddos to play with, including my 1 year old who is extremely likely to eat at least a portion of his. The amount of salt in this recipe is enough to actually be dangerous for a very young child to eat. That being said, I’d be pretty amazed if anyone, even an experimental 1 year old, took a bite and decided to have more as it is extremely salty but it is definitely worth mentioning. If you’re looking for a toddler-safe play dough recipe maybe find one that doesn’t have this salt content as a preservative. I was pleasantly surprised to find the salt content did not seem to dry out my hands even with all that kneading. We found the Kool Aid packets didn’t all have as rich of a color as we’d expected. We made yellow (which gave no color), blue, pink, and orange (best color) and they tended to look fairly muted but are still pretty so it’s fine. We also added some extra flour during the kneading stage as it was still slightly sticky. We put each color (1/2 batch worth) into 1.5 cup Tupperware containers so we can save and refrigerate to make them last as long as possible. Fun project just not my personal favorite recipe for toddler-safe “edible” play dough.

This was fun to make with my grandchildren

love it, my 4 yr old helped make it. so easy. I also opted to use food coloring rather then koolaid, only bc I had no koolaid. turned out perfectly.

I made this without the juice packets, and just did food coloring. It worked out great. Thanks for the tip to store in the fridge – last time I made playdo it went moldy!

Makes great play dough. I use my kitchen-aid mixer to knead the dough. I do have to add quite a bit of flour to get the desired consistency.

I consider myself a good cook and baker, and I followed this recipe to a T. Regardless of that fact, my playdoh turned out more like sticky, goopy oobleck than playdoh! I had to add more than 1 Cup of extra flour to get this playdoh to lose its sticky, runny consistency, and even threw a little more salt in. I can’t figure out why mine turned out so differently, but everything was done exactly as recommended. After tweaking the dough for awhile, we ended up with your standard preschool class homemade, scented soft playdoh. This recipe was too much of a hassle for me to return to again, but we will enjoy the dough I created for awhile to come I am sure.

Great base recipe. As a side note, you can add more oil to knead the color in (helps to minimize dye if you don’t have gloves on hand, and if you over knead you can add some more flour. I didn’t have koolaid so I used 6tsp orange jello and 2 tsp white grain sugar.

Instead of the kool aid I used regular food coloring I had on hand, and it worked great! The exact consistsancy of the name brand stuff. I also swapped coconut oil for the vegetable oil.

Great recipe!!!

I loved this [dough} it was super awesome for everyone to eat i even loved it. So good remember don’t add a lot of flour k

First batch was super watery so I had to add more flour where as the second batch came out exact. Kool-aid does not add a great deal of color but smells great.