How to Make Playdough (Play-doh)

Step 1 Ingredients

Playdough is a classic childhood toy everyone can have fun with, and it's so easy to make at home you'll never buy that stinky store variety again.

Basic ingredient ratios:
2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 cup salt
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Tablespoon cream of tartar (optional for improved elasticity)

food coloring (liquid, powder, or unsweetened drink mix)
scented oils

Comments

[suzanne97205]

In the ingredient list, did you mean _unsweetened_ drink mix? Kool-ade, or Wylers, or whatever is easy to blend in, and they make lots of colors.

[jennabanana]

So my mom has a recipe for play doh that doesn't require cooking. Its so EASY! I'm making it for a demonstration speech in speech class. Here's the recipe: 3cups four 1/3 cup salt 2tbsp oil (veg) 1cup water 7 drops food coloring. mix dry ingredients with oil. add food coloring to water and mix together. add water to flour/salt/oil mixture slowly~about 1/4 cup at a time and mix together with a spoon. once you've added all the water, knead the dough with your hands. Basically this playdoh kicks butt ha ha. try it out and let me know how it worked for you!

[KelseyEwing]

 You should make an instructable out of this. It would be short but people could find what theyre looking for more easily

[cowdude]

BEST PLAY DOH EVER!!!:D

[angie420]

agree

[brittaniwilliams]

do u have to cook the play dough this is my 1st time makeing it

plz reply

[Chromatica]

oh my that was the best recipe for playdoh thx jennabanana

[someoneyoudontknow...]

o my gosh I'm doing the exact same thing! pretty cool :)

[Syn-D]

I tried it at first it was soggy so i got frustrated but kept molding and it worked fine

[snikhitha]

thanks jennabanana it works awesome it kicks the butt.

[angelaka]

Thanks so much for the recipe. My six year old daughter made a batch today and she is having so much fun!

[strangebike]

Hi ya Jennabanana, Just made your palydoh as I work in a preschool and when we make our normal dough there is a disconnection between the manufacture and the product, so a non cook option looks good. Only comments I have on your recipe is the mixture ends up a bit sticky and due to the food colouring it stains the hands (yes I have red hands but not badly) the addition of a small amount of flour in the kneading process brought the sticky ness down to sensible levels. But this doesn't seem to bother my guinea pig (my 4 year old) who is even at this very moment battering it into submission and cutting it in to pieces. On the positive side( Especially for those who work in the preschool environment ) our daughter seems to be having more fun with this over the cook method.I think this is that she has made and got it with no interruption so has really engaged. It might be Monday morning doh when you need the stuff as soon as and the kids can play with this while the cooked stuff is cooling and getting beaten into submission. The colours are much more vibrant then the cooked stuff for the same amount of input. cheers Richard

[getknown]

This sounds great for my class of kids I`m teaching in Japan. They are only 3 years old so the non cooking method is better. I will try it tomorrow. You`re a life saver!

[channy1965]

can you add cream of tartar to this to make it more elastic as in the cookable play-dough.

[love2makeit]

OK, I am lovin' this recipe. TI was so fast to make, and no heating which is a bonus. The kids loved it. Thanks for sharing it.

[wmcquill]

I have to do a speech also. How exactly did you do yours and how did you grade? Did you use power point? Send some more info. This sounds interesting.

[Lineve59]

Jenna how much does this recipe make??I am doing it for rec therapy at some group homes so i need to buy the ingrediants.......need to know how much to double or triple the recipe

[solopach]

Yeah Jenna, your recipe rocks.

[dodo91]

did you mean 3cups flour?

[flirtyrae13]

Thanks for the no cook version! I just made it for my little boy in less than 5 minutes and it turned out great!

[plzspoilme25]

wonders if it hardens the same....if ur looking more for a clay? an even easier way includes only 3 ingredients flour, water, and salt, and add color if u want. measure twice.....i'm bad at exact measures, make sure u use dry cup measure for the dry stuff, and liquid measure for the liquid stuff, trust me a little bit can make a big diffrence. i'm guessing they all work for diffrent kinds of things, tnx for all the info on this. seems to be as many diff ways to do this as there are for making cake, LOL

[sharlston]

IF YOU PUT HOMEMADE PLAY DOUGH IN THE OVEN TO HARDEN THE WATER IN IT EVEAPORATES AND THEN IT GOES HOLLOW

[JAMJAMJAM]

this was so fun to make when i had a friend sleeping over, we got it a bit wrong because we added too much water but in the end it was great, BABY PINK playdough..
THANKS =]

[hello12]

hi jammmmmmmmm for short recipe was sick its great but it came out sticky for sum odd reason aniway reply b

[jasmine-leah]

Hi Jennabanana. Thanks for the recipe. My daughter wanted to play with playdoh & it had dried up so I wanted a quick recipe. I was busy & this took me like 3 mins. This one's amazing. We now have loads of pink playdoh. So quick & easy ~ thank you !

[chelSEAbee]

hey Jennabanan i tried this recipe... guess what i liked it alot more than the one that requires cooking its less exspensive and no cream of tartar that stuff is exspensive tanks so much!!!

[yoyorocketgirl01]

I was wondering the recipe says salt and the picture is sea salt is there a difference, or can I use reg. salt?

[madhops0620]

lol im assuming that where it says " 3 cups of four" that you meant, 3 cups of flour

[Hellokittybaby1206]

What I would like to know... Is there a way to make this with out Making 3 Cups of one color? Maybe I can make 1 cup each of different colors. How would I go about doing this?

[Redgerr]

just dont add the color right away, make it-- then break it into little bits. then you can color what you want with whatever you want :)

[headphoned]

Umm.... That's just a recipe for dough. Take out the food coloring and throw in some yeast and you've got your basic bread/pizza dough. Still cool, though.

[cutienxtdoor]

i think this recipie rocks so much more than the one you have to cook, thanks

[zoundsPadang]

dude i've been looking all over and i just cant find a bag of four any more! I have no idea where i'm going to get three whole cups of it. ;)

[DrWeird117]

giant eagle or acme ; )

[seniorbch]

you know how you said 3cups four did you mean flour i hope u did

[seniorbch]

your right that ingrediant really works

[teenaanne]

hi is it just plain flour u use

[canida]

Yes. Stay away from wheat or self-rising, as they completely change the process.

[Marrie21]

Dang that does work good thankz I used it a project

[Marrie21]

Dang that does work good thankz i used it a project