Glitter Play Dough Recipe

Posted 2013-04-01 by Jane Street ⇒ follow

Sparkly Play Dough

This sparkly play dough is cheap and fun to make as well as play with. It's a great rainy day activity as it can keep your kids entertained for ages.

Time: 20 minutes to make plus lots of playing time
Age: Under 5's, 5 to 10's
Level: Easy

Materials

1 cup plain flour

1 cup water

1/2 cup salt

2 tablespoons cream of tartar powder

1 tablespoon olive oil

Glitter

Few drops vanilla essence

Few capfuls of various food colouring

Saucepan and wooden spoon

Note, ground salt would be best, but if you find you only have rock salt will work fine as long as you dissolve it fully in the water first

Cheap store cupboard materials

Method

Add the salt to the water in the saucepan and dissolve fully by bringing the water to the boil

Ground salt is best but just dissolve rock salt in the water if, like me, that is what you have in your cupboard

Turn off the heat and add the flour, cream of tartar, oil and vanilla essence. The vanilla essence just makes the dough smell nice so you could add any other essential oil you prefer instead.

Stir well

Mix all the ingredients together

Check first that the saucepan and mixture are not too hot, then you can mix the dough with your hands too

Time to get messy

When the dough is well mixed split into several balls on a worktop and poke a hole in the top of each dough ball. Add half a capful of food colouring into each hole (a different colour in each) and add a shake of glitter

Adding colour

Dont forget the glitter

Mix the colour through the dough by kneading, squishing, pressing and rolling.

Squish, roll and knead to mix the colour through

You should now have several balls of colourful, glittery play dough. Younger children will enjoy the sensory experience of squeezing the dough whilst older children can make models with it - try making these Play Dough Ice Creams

We made dough with red, yellow and blue food colouring and then had fun colour mixing by kneading combinations of finished dough together: blue and yellow dough kneaded together made green dough, red and blue kneaded together made purple dough. We rolled all three colours together gently to make a swirly multi coloured ball.