What are the 4 ingredients in homemade playdough?

For the most part, homemade playdough recipes contain the same essential ingredients: flour, salt, cream of tartar, oil, water, and food coloring.

How to make easy play dough?

Play Dough Recipe 5 2 cups water 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 2 tbs cooking oil 4 tsp cream of tartar Food coloring (optional) Add food coloring to water it you wish to color the dough. Mix and heat until ingredients form a ball. Knead until smooth and store in airtight container.

How to make homemade playdough with 2 ingredients?

All you need for this play dough recipe is cornstarch and cheap conditioner . Emphasis on the CHEAP. Cheap conditioner is slightly more watered down. The extra liquid helps create the right texture you're looking for.

What is the secret ingredient in play dough?

With this recipe the key is to really make sure you knead the dough well to avoid ending up with an end product that is too sticky or wet. The glycerine is a secret ingredient that makes the playdough extra stretchy and fun!

How to make playdough with 1 cup of flour?

How to make Homemade Playdough. In a medium saucepan, add 1 cup of flour, 2 teaspoons of cream of tarter, and ⅓ cup of salt (the salt keeps it from sticking and also helps preserve it).

How do you make cloud dough?

Add 1/2 cup of lotion to a bowl. Add 1-2 drops of the food coloring (if using concentrated gel, if using regular food coloring you'll need more drops to color) and mix. Mix the lotion and food coloring until combined. Add 1 cup of cornstarch and mix.

How to make fun play dough?

how to make the world's best homemade play-doh. You'll need 3 cups of white all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons cream of tartar, 1 cup + 2 tablespoons of table salt, 3-4 tablespoons of any cooking oil (start with 3 and add more if necessary), 3 cups HOT water, and food coloring.

How to make messy play dough?

Combine 1 cup of extra fine sand, 1/4 cup of cornflour, 1 tablespoon of dish soap, and a few drops of food colouring in a bowl. Next, pour in 1/4 cup of water and mix. Add the remaining 1/4 cup of cornflour, mix it well and let it sit and dry for a few hours (2- 3 hours will do).

What makes playdough fluffy?

Today we're making homemade cloud dough with conditioner and cornstarch ! These two basic ingredients combine to make the fluffiest play dough imaginable. Yeah, it lives up to its name because it feels as soft and fluffy as you'd imagine a cloud feels.

10 Homemade Play-dough Recipes (2024)

Have you ever tried a new play-dough recipe? Was it everything you hoped it would be or was it an experience you never want to repeat?

I have tried lots and lots of different play-dough recipes and been disappointed many times, I have also tried a few that were AWESOME. The problem is I can never remember which recipes worked and which turned out to be a horrible mess. I also never know how much play-dough a recipe is going to make or how long it is going to last...it is all a HUGE guessing game.

We LOVE play-dough at our house...it's my 4 year old's favorite activity and I enjoy it too so we have played this guessing game a lot. About a year ago I thought I'd found the perfect play-dough recipe online but when I made it I was very disappointed...it made a ton of play-dough and it was a crumbly mess. I decided I wasn't going to play this guessing game anymore. I decided to devote an entire day to making and playing with play-dough and recording info about each recipe.

What We Did- Our play-dough day

(Pretty much we had a HUGE play-dough day!)

1- We made all 10 of my play-dough recipes the same day (I followed directions exactly)

2- We played with each play-dough and wrote down what we thought about it

3- Measured how much play-dough the recipe made (We measured using store bought play-dough containers)

4- Took pictures of each recipe

5- Stored each recipe in plasticZiplocbags

6- Played with each play-dough at 3 weeks, 2 months, 6 months and 9 months after making it and took notes.

What We Wanted to Know

1- If we liked the recipe or not (Trash it or Keep it?)

2- How much play-dough the recipe made

3- How long it lasted/stayed good

Recipes & Results
**Over the years we have tried some fun edible play-dough's. They are fun but typically a one day play-dough. They don't last long and usually end up getting eaten so we didn'texperimentwith any edible play-dough's.

Recipe #1 (Best Play-dough)

Ingredients

1 C Flour

1 C Water

1/4 C Salt

1 T VegetableOil

2 t Cream of Tarter

Food Coloring (4 drops)

Sauce Pan and Wooden Spoon

Directions (Cook all ingredients over stove)

1- Pour all ingredients (order does not matter) into sauce pan.

2- Stir until everything is mixed well.

3- Once the mixture is mostly clump free heat over medium heat.

4- Stir and keep stirring, after a few minutes it will start to clump up.

5- Stir until one big clump is formed and remove from heat.

6- Knead by hand.

Keep or Trash?:Keep! This was by far my favorite recipe, it's just like store bought play-dough! It isn't toosticky/oilyanddoesn'tleave a residue on hands or surface.

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Keep or Trash:

Keep. This was a good one time play-dough although itdoesn'tlast long.

How Long it Lasted:

At 2 weeks it had become really sticky.

How Much it Made:

2 1/2 Containers

Recipe #6

Ingredients
1/4 C Salt
1 C Flour
1/4 C Water

Directions (No cook, just mix in bowl)
Mix with hands in bowl, knead.

Keep or Trash:Trash, it worked but was not a very good play-dough.

How Long it Lasted:

At 3 weeks it was a little watery, at 2 months the oil had surfaced and it was very sticky.

How Much it Made:

1 1/2 Containers

Recipe #7 (Baking Soda Play-dough)

Ingredients

1 C Baking Soda
1/2 C Corn Startch
3/4 C Water

Directions (Cook all ingredients over stove)
1- Pour all ingredients (order does not matter) into sauce pan.

2- Stir until everything is mixed well.

3- Once the mixture is mostly clump free heat over medium heat.

4- Stir and keep stirring, after a few minutes it will start to clump up.

5- Stir until one big clump is formed and remove from heat.

6- Knead by hand.

Keep or Trash:

Trash. This could be a good alternative to flour recipes, but it's not a great play-dough.

How Long it Lasted:

3 Weeks. At 2 Months it hadseparatedand was not good to play with.

How Much it Made:

1 1/2 Containers

Recipe #8

Ingredients
2 C boiling water
2 T oil
1/4 C Salt
2 C Flour
2 T Cream of Tarter or Alum

Directions (Heat water over oven then mix in large bowl)
1- Boil Water and Oil
2- Mix all ingredients in large bowl
3- Knead

Keep or Trash:

Trash. This would be an alright one timer but I won't be making it again.

How Long it Lasted:

Molded in 3 weeks.
How Much it Made:3 1/2 Container

Recipe #9 (Crumbly No-Cook Play-dough)

Ingredients
3 C Flour
1 C Cold Water
1 C Salt
2 t Oil
Food Coloring

Directions (No Cook, mix ingredients in large bowl)
Mix with hands in bowl, knead.

Keep or Trash:

Trash, way to crumbly.

How Long it Lasted:

This was really crumbly in the beginning but we held on to it for 2 months to see if it got better. At 2 months the oil came to the surface and it was sticky but still crumbled like crazy.
How Much it Made:4 Containers

Recipe # 10

Ingredients
2 C Flour
2 C Water
4 t Cream of Tarter
2 T Oil
1 t salt
Food Coloring

Directions (Cook all ingredients over stove)
1- Pour all ingredients (order does not matter) into sauce pan.

2- Stir until everything is mixed well.

3- Once the mixture is mostly clump free heat over medium heat.

4- Stir and keep stirring, after a few minutes it will start to clump up.

5- Stir until one big clump is formed and remove from heat.

6- Knead by hand.

Keep or Trash:

Trash, Molded in 4 days.

How Long it Lasted:

4 days. This play-dough was fine (sticky) for a one-time use but did not store well at all.

How Much it Made:

3 Containers

Secrets to Making Great Play-dough

I learned a few things from this experiment::
~Cream of Tarter really helps the dough stay together.

~Don't add a lot of salt...it dries the dough out.

~Their are all sorts of ways to make play-dough: Cooking it over the stove: adding hot water to the dry ingredients and no-cook recipes. If you are looking for a store bought like play-dough that stays together well and doesn'thave visible grains of salt you are most likely going to use a recipe that requires cooking it over the stove. Others are easier to make but don't turn out as well.
~Play-dough is best stored in plastic Ziploc bags that seal well. Weexperimentedwith storing it in containers and plastic bags and the play-dough in the bags stayed better longer...it didn't dry out as fast.

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