January 17, 2025

Glow in the Dark Playdough Recipe for Kids

Get ready for your kids to be amazed with this epic glow in the dark playdough recipe! This easy-to-make glow in the dark playdough recipe is sure to delight your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and first grade students. They will be amazed how their playdough will come alive in the dark. This glow in the dark activities is sure to create some special memories!

Glow in the Dark Playdough

Kids love playing with play dough! They love squishing and building with it to create lots of shapes, scenes, cookies and more. It not only allows they to be creative with their imaginations, but it is great for strengthening hand muscles so toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners are ready for writing! This is not your run-of-the-mill playdough recipe! This amazing playdough recipe for kids glows in the dark! Seriously! Your children are going to love this glow in the dark playdough perfect for playing and building with while creating some fun memories with an outrageously fun kids activity.

Glow in the Dark Play dough

My kid love playing with playdough. It is not only a great creative outlet, but also strengthen their hand muscles so they will be ready to write. But today was all about play! We made glow in the dark playdough.

Glow in the dark playdough recipe

I made our favorite playdough recipe and then added 2 teas of washable fluorescent paint. I mixed well with my hands. Once it was thoroughly mixed in it did not stain little hands.

Note: To get deep vibrant colors add food coloring / dry Kool-Aid packets AND washable fluorescent paint in the same color.

Glow in the dark play doh

I gave my toddler a mixing bowl and a spoon so she could make her own cookies or other creations.

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She patted and shaped the play recipe to make circular cookies on a baking sheet. Kids may also enjoy rolling the dough and using cookie cutters to cut out fun animal shapes, seasonal shapes, etc.

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Next it was time to add some sprinkles! Sprinkles are always fun! My kids can’t get enough of colorful sprinkles so this was the perfect item to add to our dough.

NOTE: These cookies are NOT edible or taste safe in any way! Do not eat this playdough

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Although adding sprinkles was fun and made them look pretty, it doesn’t allow you to squish and rollout the playdough again as well. So you decide if you want to add sprinkles or not. The playdough was in such vibrant colors from purples, orange, green, red, crimson, light blue, yellow, and more!

The dough can be saved in an air tight container or ziplock bag for days to play with again.

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Now we checked out our cookies using our black light!

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You can wait for it to be dark and add your blacklight or got to a room with no external light and add your blacklight. My kids love the silly fun of using a black light to see colors differently.

Glow in the dark play

Can you tll which cookies are “regular” playdough and which ones glow in the dark? Cool, huh! The ones we made with the fluorescent paint look so cool and glow. My kids were super impressed with this activity for kids.

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Playdough Recipes

Amazing Color Changing Playdough
Classic, no-fail Kool Aid Playdough smells amazing
Silk Soft 2 ingredient Playdough recipe no cook and dreamy white conditioner playdough
Edible Pumpkin Playdough, yummy candy corn playdough
Edible Marshmallow Playdough, and Peanut Butter Playdough 2 ingredient edible candy playdough, and edible Funfetti Playdough
Peeps Playdough or fun snowman playdough
Reader favorite play doh ice cream
Colorful crayon playdough
Simple jello Strawberry Playdough, scented Watermelon Playdough
Scented lemon playdough, DIY Apple Pie Playdough, or super soft apple pie playdough no cook
Bubble Gum homemade best playdough recipe
In the winter try hot chocolate playdough or our stretchy peppermint playdough
Try shaving cream playdough, fun glow in the dark playdough

Do your kids love playing with play dough? I know mine do. That is one reason why I love incorporating playdough activities using playdoh mats into other aspects of our learning. So as we were learning what are the parts of a book I decided I'd make playdough mats to learn the parts of a book for kids. Simply print the parts of a book worksheet and set out some playdough to teach preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders the basic parts of a book.

This fun hands-on human body for kids project is such a fun way to learn about our amazing bodies! These Human Body Playdough Mats are a fun way for kids of all ages to learn about what is inside our body. Learn about human body parts for kids by completing the free printable playdouh mats. Children will learn about body systems for kids as they make bones, skeletal system, muscles, organs, and more! Use these playdough mats as part of a study of anatomy making human body model for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students. Simply print the playdoh mats and learn about my body parts for kids with a hands-on science activity.

Cute Gumball Number Playdough Mats are fun for working on number sense. These free printable playdough mats for numbers 1-10.

Kids love to play with playdough! Combine playdough and learning letters with these super cute alphabet playdough mats. While using these playdough letter mats children will be encouraged to create play dough letters and finish the pictures while learning their ABCs and the sounds they make. This free alphabet printable is such a FUN alphabet activity to use with play doh and markers or crayons! Use these alphabet playdoh mats with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age child. Simply print the letter mats pdf file and you are ready to play and learn with this alphabet activity.

Make practicing forming uppercase and lowercase letters tactile with these alphabet playdough mats. These playdough letter mats give a spot for children to form the upper and lower case letter along with some ruled lines for tracing the letter too. Use these . These FUN alphabet worksheets are perfect for toddler, preschool, and kindergarten kids. Simply download pdf file with abc playdough mats and you are ready to play and learn!

Make working on number sense FUN for kids with these super cute, gumball number playdough mats. These free printable playdough mats include practice counting gumballs, adding gumballs to the ten frame, seeing various ways of representing that number, a place to make the numeral out of play doh, and a line to trace numbers 1-10. These number mats are outrageously fun for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders. Simply download pdf file with tracing numbers printables and you are ready to play and learn!

Kids will love playing with these fun, interactive playdough number mats to practice numbers 1-10. These Number Playdough Mats allow children to use play doh to work on learning their numbers and counting to 10. This playdough numbers is a fun counting activity that also helps strengthing fine motor skills, and playing at the same time. These counting playdough mats are a hands-on, playful number activity for preschoolers and toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age kids. Simply download pdf file with free playdough number mats to learn numbers to ten.

playdough shape activities for preschoolers

Super cute monster themed shape playdough mats for toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age kids

Young learners will have fun exploring with these FREE Transportation Playdough Cards to strengthening fine motor skills using playdough.

Free Dump Truck Count to 20 Math Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten age kids

Sneak in some outgrageously FUN summer math with this hands-on ice cream activity. This ice cream math has preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age children practice adding up scoops of ice cream to find the sum. All you need are the ice cream printables with the task cards and playdough. This summer printables helps introduce preschoolers to the concept of addition while having fun with playdough! Simply print pdf file with ice cream math games and you are ready to play and learn with this summer activity for preschoolers.

Playdough Activies

TONS of free printable playdough mat to print and play (plus more free printable playdough mats on our sister site
Subtraction Smash: fun math activity with playdough, ice cream math addition playdough activity, telling the times games free
Gumball Number Mats to play and learn with playdoh, FREE Number Playodugh Mats 1-10, counting construction playdough mats, or versatile free printable numbers 1-10 for preschoolers, ice cream pattern printable with playdough, watermelon seed counting activity,
Parts of a Book for Kids Playdough Activity with free printable
Hands-on, Playful Alphabet Playdough Mats – make the capital letter and complete the picture or these upper and lowercase alphabet playdough mats with tracing practice, and these simple alphabet playdough mats
Human Body Playdough Mats for learning about bones, circulation, organs, and systems
Themed Cards: Transportation playdough mats, pet animal playdough mats, jungle animal playdough mats, tools playdough pattern mats, emotions playdough mats, one fish two fish printables, birthday cake activity for preschool, instrument activity for preschoolers, color matching pencils free printable playdough mats
Cute Monster shapes, shape flower playdough mats,
Seasonal Fall Playdough Mats or these fall playdough mats, apple playdough mats, thanksgiving playdough mats, cute Christmas Playdough Mats, winter playdough mats, spring playdough mats, summer playdough mats, playdoh corn counting activity
See all our free printable playdough mats preschool playdough mats, kindergarten playdough mats

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! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, 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. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!