Christmas
December 14, 2022
20 Christmas Playdough Recipes

20 Christmas Playdough Recipes

Share

Are you tired of ads too?

For a small fee you can get this site – and all the free goodies – 100% ad-free!

Click Here

Whip up a special batch of a Christmas playdough recipe to celebrate the holiday season in December! We have more than 20 creative, unique, and FUN Christmas Play doh Recipes for Kids! Whether you try the candy cane playdough, cookie playdough, gingerbread playdough, snowball playdough, or one of the many other fun-to-try playdough recipes for kids – these are sure to make strengthening hand muscles for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students extra fun!
Whip up a special batch of a Christmas playdough recipe to celebrate the holiday season in December! We have more than 20 creative, unique, and FUN Christmas Play doh Recipes for Kids! Whether you try the candy cane playdough, cookie playdough, gingerbread playdough, snowball playdough, or one of the many other fun-to-try playdough recipes for kids - these are sure to make strengthening hand muscles for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students extra fun!

Christmas Playdough Recipes

Your kids are going to love making these super creative and unique Christmas Playdough Recipes! Not only are there lots of play recipes for December to try, but they will enhance a variety of educational activities for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students too by engaging their senses. There are enough Christmas Play doh recipes to try a different one almost every day in the month of December!

Christmas Play Doh

Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you are going to want to try all these amazing Christmas Play Doh ideas! The hardest part is picking which Christmas play recipe will you try first?

  • Glittery Christmas Playdough from Learning 4 Kids is sure to be a hit with the glitter!
  • Sugar Cookie Playdough from Frog Snails and Puppy Dog Tails smells just like you are whipping up a batch or delicious sugar cookies.
  • Easy Peppermint Playdough from Musings from a Stay at Home Mom is perfect for relaxing the senses with a classic Christmas scent – peppermint.
  • Snowball Playdough from Yellow Bliss Road is like playing with snow, without the cold!
  • Candy cane Playdough from The Artful Parent  looks just like the iconic holiday candy!
  • Sugar Plum Playdough from Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails is perfect for playing with after reading the Sugar Plum fairy or watching the Nutcracker.
  • Christmas Day Playdough from Nurture Store is filled with festive herbs and spices for a xmas playdough that will delight the senses.
  • Cinnamon Crumble Playdough from Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails smells just like Christmas with the cinnamon goodness!

Christmas play dough

  • Cinnamon Playdough Cookies from The Imagination Tree shares some super cute cinnamon playdough cookies for your child to make and pretend play.
  • Hot Cocoa Playdough is sure to be a hit with kids of all ages who will giggle at the silly, sweet smelling dough!
  • Orange & Clove Playdough from Nurture Store is such beautiful, orange, sweet smelling recipe you will love to play with.
  • Tinsel Playdough from Laughing Kids Learn is perfect for kids who love playing with sparkly tinsel!
  • Vanilla Mint Playdough from Mama Papa Bubba is a simple, soothing dough recipe for kids to play with.
  • Whip up some Christmas Pudding Playdough from Sun Hats and Wellie Boots to celebrate the holidays
  • So Soft [NO COOK] Christmas Playdough from Growing a Jeweled Rose is quick to mix together and perfect for making Santa Clause, Christmas Trees, snowmen, elves, wreaths, candy canes, and other iconic Christmas shapes
  • Essential Oil Playdough from Learn Play Imagine uses your favorite essential oils
  • Gingerbread Men Playdough from Kids Activities Blog is the perfect recipe for whipping up a batch of gingerbread men to decorate and play with.

 

              

Christmas Books for Kids

Pick up a new favorite Christmas picture book to read together by the Christmas tree this year. These are some of our favorites!

free christmas worksheets find the letter Alphabet-Trace-and-Erase-Christmas-Ornaments Free-Grinch-Alphabet-Puzzles

Christmas Alphabet

Looking for ideas to help kids practice letter recognition, matching upper and lower case letters, and learning the sounds letters make? You will love these fun christmas printable pages to work on phonics skills and tracing letters!

FREE Christmas Tree ABC Game - kids will have fun practicing sorting Christmas presents under the correct alphabet Christmas tree by listening for the beginning sound. Great literacy activity for prek, kindergarten and first grade for some fun Christmas learning or center in December #christmasphonics #christmaskindergarten #christmasprintable Gingerbread pritnables

free-christmas-hundreds-chart-coloring  count to 20 christmas playdough mats This fun, hands-on Christmas counting idea allows preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age children to sneak in some fun holiday math in December! These Christmas counting activities also help strengthen fine motor skills too! Simply print the Christmas math and you are ready for an engaging math center or Christmas activity for kindergarten!

Christmas Math

Here are lots of fun and free ways to help kids practice counting from 0-10, 0-20, or 0-100 during December.

Stocking-Three-Digit-Addition-Game Kids will love practicing addition and subtraction during December with super cute, free printable Christmas fact families. Simply download the pdf file with these Christmas Math Worksheets to help first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students sneak in some fun Christmas Math to make learning fun during the holidays. Math-Christmas-Tree Are you looking for a fun Christmas math activity to sneak in some fun learning during the holidays? If you are working with 2nd grade and 3rd graders, you will love this Christmas Multiplication free printable! For this Christmas math games children will solve simple multiplication problems to complete the puzzle.

Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with these fun Christmas math printables:

  Christmas Patterns Activity Christmas Math Color matching

Plus don’t forget these Christmas math printables for practicing telling time, patterns, colors, shapes, and more!

free-word-family-Christmas-trees Free-GINGERBREAD-Sight-Word-Coloring-Sheets 

Christmas Language Arts

Practice identifying word families, sight words, cvc words, spelling words, and so much more with these Christmas literacy activities for elementary age students.

Christmas Color by Kindergarten Sight Words

If you are looking for some fun ideas to get your child writing more during the month of December? You will love these free printable Christmas Writing Prompts for kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students.  There are over 30 pages of December writing prompts, letters to Santa templates, and more with both smaller and wider ruled lines!  Make practicing writing fun and EASY with this FREE printable December Writing Prompts. This writing prompts calendar is perfect for kids of all ages.

Christmas Writing Prompts

Sneak in some fun writing this December with these free creative writing prompts for December.

Kids will have fun reliving the Gingerbread many story while learning math and literacy skills with these free printable gingerbread man worksheets perfect for December. The cute gingerbread man story printable make Christmas learning fun and engaging for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. The gingerbread man free printables include free gingerbread man sequencing activity, Gingerbread math, Gingerbread alphabet activities, and more in this HUGE pack of free Christmas worksheets.  super cute, free printable, Christmas Worksheets are so much fun?  Preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students will stay engaged as they practice Christmas math, learn abcs, work on beginning sounds, fill in the vowel, letter recognition, make a printable book, play I spy, writing prompts, and more in December. This Simply download the Christmas worksheets pdf and you are ready to make learning fun this holiday season! 

Christmas Themed Worksheets

These HUGE packs allow 3-8 year-olds to practice a variety of math, literacy, and more with fun themes!

Help children practice their alphabet letters with these super cute, and FREE polar express worksheets. These polar express printables allow preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten to  practicing to identify both uppercase and lowercase letters with a festive letter find activity perfect for December. These fun, educational Christmas worksheets are a fun, engaging way to work on letter recognition this holiday season. Make learning math and literacy skills FUN in December with these super cute, free printable Polar Express Worksheets. Download the pdf file with the polar express worksheets free for no prep, free printable Christmas worksheets to make learning fun with a favorite Christmas picture book for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students.  Celebrate the holiday season this December with these super cute, free printable, Polar Express Color by Number. These Christmas worksheets are perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to work on number recognition. Simply download pdf file for this coloring pages pack of no-prep Christmas Math pages to make learning fun!

Polar Express Activities

free-printable-christmas-BINGO-for-families  Kids are going to love these interactive, Free printable Christmas Playdough Mats! Let their creativity soar as they play, learn, and strengthen their fine motor skills while helping decorate the Christmas tree, decorating the gingerbread man, helping Santa Claus getting on his iconic red suit, and more!  Simply download the pdf file with the 10 different free Christmas playdough mats to have fun with toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age students this December! FREE Christmas Around the World Activities for Kids - kids will have fun exploring over 30 countries while they learn about other countries holiday traditions, language, flag, geography, interesting facts and more. Includes Christmas crafts, recipes, FREE Christmas Around the World worksheets and more! #christmasaroundtheworld #christmasworksheets #free Looking for a fun christmas activity that is no-prep because it uses free printable christmas worksheets? This super cute Christmas I Spy is a great way to have fun, work on visual discrimination, and work on counting too. This I spy Christmas printable is great for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and even first grade and 2nd grdaers. Simply print free Christmas printables and you are ready to play and learn!

Free Christmas Printables

This are one of my favorite December printables filled with Christmas Playdough Mats, Christmas Games like Christmas Bingo and Pictionary, Christmas Around the World, free Christmas Coloring sheets and so much more!

how-to-grow-a-candy-cane-christmas-kids-activity Christmas Dot to Dot Printables  FREE ELf on the Shelf Printables- take the work out of planning your Chrsitmas Elf's antics with these fun elf on the shelf ideas, Welcome Back Letter, and Elf on the Shelf Jokes! #elfontheshelf #elfontheshelfprintables #christmasprintables Celebrate the holiday season this December with these super cute, free Christmas coloring pages. These simple Christmas coloring sheets are a fun, no-prep Christmas worksheet for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Kids can color the ornament, holly, wreath, stocking, candle, candy canes, present, bells, Christmas tree, and Merry Christmas greeting for a fun Christmas Activity. 

Marbelized-Crayon-Christmas-Ornament-Craft-for-Kids  Paper-Strip-Christmas-Tree-Ornament-Craft Snowman Keepsake Ornament Easy-to-make bauble ornament crafts are beautiful! Use free printable template & construction paper! Christmas craft for preschoolers!

Christmas Ornament Crafts

Looking for cute and simple Christmas ornaments for kids to make? Try these projects out:

Christmas Ornament EASY Perler Bead Silicon Ornaments - This super cute ornament kids can make is a fun Christmas Craft for Kids. #diyornaments #christmascrafts #ornamentcrafts #craftsforkids Pom Pom Ornaments - super cute, fun, and colorful Pom Pom Ornament Craft that is easy, DIY for kids to make themselves! This fun Christmas Ornament Craft will be a huge hit with your preschool, kindergarten, and elementary age kids. #christmascrafts #diyornaments #pompoms

Super cute, free christmas hat craft for kids Celebrate the season by making a cute, one-of-a-kind reindeer craft with your kids. This simple to make reindeer handprint craft is a fun extension to a story about Christmas reindeer or the most famous reindeer of all - Rudolph! Plus you'll love that this reindeer footprint craft helps create a priceless keepsake by preserving the size of your kids precious hands and feet.  Try this Christmas craft with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders this December! This Christmas wreath craft may be quick and EASY, but WOW is it beautiful! Children of all ages from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd graders, and up will love making these construction paper Christmas crafts as decorations for home or the classroom. So grab some pretty paper and start making this pretty paper plate wreath as a holiday craft for December!

Christmas Crafts for December

Plus these fun Christmas crafts for kids are sure to get you in the mood for December 25th.

Christmas-Tree-Putty  Puffy Snow Paint Recipe for Chrsitmas crafts Gingerbread-Christmas-Craft-for-Kids

Christmas Activities for Kids

If your kids love playdough, puffy paint, and slime these fun Christmas play recipes are a much try!

This No Stick Gingerbread Slime Recipe is not only fun to play with, but it smells amazing too!  This easy Gingerbread Slime is perfect for strengthening and engaging little hands for some sensory play in December. Make a gingerbread man out of slime, stretch, mold, oooooz and have lots of fun with this Christmas activity for kids! We love this Gingerbread activities with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students! Christmas-Fluffy-Slime-Recipe amazing-melting-snowman-slime-recipe

Christmas Play Recipes

Fizzy Gingerbread Man Christmas Science Experiment was a huge hit!  Children from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, to first grade students will enjoy this Christmas Science Activities perfect for making learning fun in December. This magical Melting Christmas tree project is sure to bring some magic and fun into your day this holiday seasons! Try this simple, easy Christmas Science Experiments with preschoolers, kindergartners, toddlers, and grade 1 students to sneak in some fun Christmas Learning! This Chemistry Christmas tree is such a fun Christmas activity for kids to try this holiday season!  Want to add a little more magic into your Christmas holiday season this year? Your kids eyes will get wide with this fun Christmas science experiment. The best part? This Magic Melting peppermint science experiment takes literally 2 minutes to set it up! This Christmas science is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to try in December. Kids are going to flip when they make they make their own spinning Christmas tree science project. This easy electronics project is perfect for December because it combines a Christmas craft and a Christmas science experiment to make one EPIC Christmas STEM project for kinderarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade students. This festive, holiday Christmas activity for kids is a must try this year!

Christmas Science Experiments for Kids

Looking for more fun Christmas science ideas? Check these out!

This fun Rudolph Race Game is both an outrageously fun Christmas game for kids and a chance to sneak in  Christmas STEM Activities! This easy-to-set-up Rudolph Races is a Christmas Activity for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students that teaches a little physics while having FUN! This Christmas science experiment is perfect for the whole family! borax-crystals-Christmas-Trees Snowamn Craft using Glue

This outrageously FUN Exploding Snowman is a fun winter science experiment for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. This STEM experiment is super simple to try using common materials you already have in your kitchen! Use this as a snowman activity to teach kids a little chemistry with this baking soda and vinegar experiment. Kids will love this fun snowman activity that allows them to sneak in a little science to a cold, winter day! Snowman eruptions are so easy, and this is such a cute project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students.  In these winter science experiments children will watch the effect of baking soda and vinegar in a silly and outrageously FUN snow experiments. Kids will have fun with this melting snowman where they will melt the snowman using a fun winter science experiment. This snowman activity is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten to sneak in a fun winter STEM activity where they will build a snowman and then melt it with snow science experiments observing simple chemistry for kids. This outrageously FUN snowman activity is a combination craft, activity, and winter stem activities too! This snowman launcher is simple to make and loads of fun as a snowman activity for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade and up! Follow our step-by-step how to make a snowball launcher for an adorable snowman craft and winter activities for preschoolers in January!

Winter science activities for preschoolers

Looking for more fun winter science projects for kids? We’ve got lots of fun ideas for you to try!

Best-Gingerbread-Cookies-Recipe 

Our Favorite Christmas Recipes

While we are not a recipe site, I am a mom who LOVES to cook. Here are our favorite Christmas recipes that I know you’ll love!

31 Fun December Activities for Kids - lots of fun, clever ideas with as anta, reindeer, gingerbread, christmas tree, and more themes for toddler, preschool, prek, kindergarten, and elementary age kids. #decemberactivities #christmasactivities #kidsactivities  December Crafts for Kids Grinch-Theme-Party FREE Christmas Printables - over 100 free printables arranged easily by type: Christmas games, Christmas math, Christmas language arts, Christmas coloring sheets, Christmas Preschool and more for toddler, prek, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students (homeschool, holiday centers, and more) #christmas #christmasprintables #christmasworksheets

Plus, don’t miss our handy round-ups!

I know December is busy enough so I wanted to make it easy for you to find tons of fun and FREE Christmas Printables for kids of all ages! Plus don’t miss our favorite Christmas Picture Books , these clever gingerbread books, or these children’s christmas books

Craft and Pray Around the World  FREE Christmas Around the World eBook  Christmas crafts for kids

Finally, don’t miss these resources to make your December extra fun!

Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *