Kids will love playing with this homemade silly putty recipe. This Christmas Putty is an easy-to-make silly putty recipe that is loads of fun! This bouncing putty can be shaped like playdough and slime, but has a much different feel. This play putty is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to roll and form into a Christmas Tree as a fun December activity for kids!

Christmas Putty

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, how fun you are too make with our silly putty recipe! This outrageously fun Christmas Putty is great for strengthening fine motor skills while providing a fun holiday activity for December. This play putty recipe is super simple to make and fun for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, grade 1 students, and more! Bounce, mold, and decorate your own Christmas Tree out of this play recipe for Christmas!

Silly putty recipe

Start out by adding one 6 oz bottle of glitter glue to a bowl. Next add 1/2 cup white glue.

Bouncing Putty

Then, in a separate bowl mix 1/2 cup hot water and 1 teaspoon borax until dissolved. Finally pour borax mixture into green glue mixture and continue stirring until a ball is formed.

Play Putty

Now you are ready to PLAY with your Christmas Silly Putty! This recipe is fun to bounce, roll, and form into your own Christmas Tree! We used a yellow pipe cleaner as a star and cute buttons as ornaments. How cute is it!

If your silly putty recipe is too tough, feel free to add in a teaspoon of water, hand sanitizer or even hand lotion. But ours was perfect!

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