Christmas Play Dough

To celebrate the beginning of the holiday season we are going to make some Christmas play dough! I plan to make a huge batch so that I can give some to all of the kids in my program. We can decorate it together. 🙂

The recipe is from The Imagination Tree.

No Cook Play Dough (This is an awesome recipe!)

You need:

2 cups flour
1 cup salt
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp cream of tartar
1.5 cups of boiling water
A few drops of food coloring or a food coloring paste.
Glitter, sequins for decoration

I used Wilson’s icing coloring in leaf green. It is a paste and can be found at Walmart:

Mix the dry ingredients together. Stir together the food coloring and water (especially if you use a paste form of coloring, mixing it with another liquid helps thin it for easier distribution), add boiling water, food color, and oil to the dry ingredients. Stir vigorously until all lumps are gone and it begins to come together. Then knead it until it stops being sticky.
I suggest that if you need to make a lot of play dough, do each batch individually. I made a double batch and it didn’t turn out as smooth as a single batch.

It is beautiful!