Play-Doh Sparkle Compound Collection

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Remove from the heat and place the play dough ball on some parchment paper. Let it cool slightly and then knead until it is smooth and soft. The ingredients for play-dough are very basic…vegetable oil, cream of tartar, salt, flour, and water. Leave the dough so that it has chance to firm up a bit before playing. We left ours over night – not in the fridge as we had no space although that might help. It was fine outside though! Heat and stir over low heat until the mixture becomes a cohesive mass, like gluey mashed potatoes. Let cool for a few minutes, then turn out onto a counter and knead until smooth.

Store your playdough in airtight containers or plastic ziploc bags for later use. We have found that our playdough can last up to a couple months if stored properly. If the playdough begins to dry out slightly you can add a touch of canola oil to your hands to mix and help smooth out. Playdough sensory play ideas are limited only to your child’s imagination, with so many cool things to make with playdough. And if you happen to get the ingredient ratio a little wrong, don’t worry. It is easy to learn how to make slime out of playdough. If you used the 2 ingredient play dough like us, it simple turns into 2 ingredient slime with a little mixing of the cornstarch and conditioner ratio.You can also add extra sensory items by adding scents like vanilla extract, Peppermint extract or Liquorice extract. And by adding texture with uncooked rice and pulses. This recipe makes about four commercial containers worth of play dough. Tips for making this play dough This playdough is soft and lasts a long time if kept in an air tight container. To prevent the sparkly galaxy playdough becoming one solid color I would recommend mixing the separate colors as the kids want to play. You can make all the colors individually and they can either use them separately or together to recreate this galaxy playdough. The best thing about playdough is that it is a brilliant tool to help develop a child’s fine motor skills as well as letting their imagination run wild.

or 2 TBSP Vegetable Oil ~ I have used both measurements successfully and love how soft it makes the dough feel. Anyway, making and using the dough was a lot of fun for my girls, and it’s quite a frugal project. I’m excited to try some of the fun variations out there, like gingerbread play-dough and peppermint play-dough. Homemade Glitter Play-DoughI love to experiment with simple playdough recipes, especially when they are very easy to make. I decided to make this sparkly gel dough recipe from a few supplies we had in our craft and play materials cupboard so that the boys would have something sparkly and festive to play with this winter. This is actually an adaptation of a play material we’ve used previously which you can buy from toy shops, but I will tell you how to make this type of gel dough from scratch too. For our Galaxy Playdough we decided to use our soft play doh recipe as we had all the ingredients at home and with only 2 ingredients it is such an easy play dough recipe. To make the rainbows, the kids piled graduating circles on top of each other. They then cut the circles in half, producing adorable half circles or rainbows. The kids were totally amazed by this simple discovery. They had no idea that if you cut a circle in half, you would create a rainbow shape. I love looking like a genius, since all too soon they will realize that they are smarter than me. I am soaking up being amazing (in my kids eyes) while I still can.

We used some left over sweet wrappers to roll the gelli dough into balls and wrap them up. I also added some tinsel for a bit more colour and to add some extra sparkle. One of the most common questions we get asked is how long does homemade playdough last, followed closely by questions about how to keep playdough from drying out. Place the playdough on a piece of parchment or wax paper and allow to cool to the touch. Once it’s cool to the touch add your corresponding glitter to the playdough and mix until it’s fully incorporated. With so many playdough recipe for kids it can be hard to decide which is the best homemade playdough.

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If using the plain sodium polyacrylate or insta snow then you will need to add your own colouring to the dough, whereas the Gelli Baff option does all that for you. The fun thing about this recipe is you can keep adding glitter as it gets absorbed into the playdough so it never loses its sparkle. The recipe I followed said this would take two minutes, but ours took a lot longer than that…maybe more like 10 minutes. Perhaps the other blogger has a gas stove, which would mean her burner would get warm faster than mine.