August 8, 2023
Amazing Homemade Kool Aid Playdough Recipe

Amazing Homemade Kool Aid Playdough Recipe

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Have you tried making your own play dough? Homemade playdough is super easy to make with ingredients you have in your kitchen, plus it is fun to make and free from preservatives too. But what we like best is making some truly unique playdough recipes for kids you cannot buy at the store. This kool aid playdough smells amazing – which is a huge improvement from the store bought versions.  Your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade child will love playing with this cook aid playdough recipe!

Have you tried making your own play dough? Homemade playdough is super easy to make with ingredients you have in your kitchen, plus it is fun to make and free from preservatives too. But what we like best is making some truly unique playdough recipes for kids you cannot buy at the store. This kool aid playdough smells amazing - which is a huge improvement from the store bought versions.  Your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade child will love playing with this cook aid playdough recipe!

Kool Aid Playdough

Did you know that playing with playdough is not only fun, but an important activity for young kids? You see making playdough balls, smashing them, rolling ropes, forming cookies, and manipulating the dough helps strengthen hand muscles. Toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and grade 1 students need strong, capable muscles so they can work on fine motor skills like cutting, writing numbers, coloring in the lines, etc. In addition best playdough recipes like this allow children to explore their creativity and their senses of touch and smell with this fun-to-make recipe.
 
I don’t think I will ever go back to buying store bought stuff again! This play recipe is easy-to-make and cheap.  Plus I know all the ingredients in it, it has a great feel, and it smells awesome!!
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Kool aid playdough recipe

This recipe is super simple to make, Simply add the following ingredients to a medium saucepan.

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup salt
  • 2 TAB cream of tartar
  • 1 TAB oil
  • add 1 cup water
  • sprinkle in 1 package Kool-Aid (whatever color/smell you want)

Now cook over medium heat, mixing constantly until it forms a ball.  To make multiple colors you will need to make multiple batches which is why our recipe is a small batch play dough recipe.

wonderful smelling and colorful kool aid playdough recipe

Kool aid play dough

Scoop the koolaid ough onto parchment or wax paper to cool. Once it has cooled enough to touch, squish into  a ball. We actually love playing with the homemade playdough made with kool aid while it is still a little warm as it feels so great on little hands!

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Homemade kool aid playdough

This kook aid dough has the perfect texture, great consistency, and smells GREAT! I made watermelon pink, grape purple, berry blue, and orange fruit punch above.

easy to make homemade playdough recipe

Homemade playdough with kool aid

So now that you know how to make playdough with kool aid, will you try it? This quick-to-make, 5 minutes Amazing Kool Aid Playdough Recipe smells amazing, and lasts seemingly  forever!! That means you will be ready to play quickly!

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  1. Cris cadigal Avatar
    Cris cadigal

    This is awesome!!! Thanks a lot for this recipe and for the free printables. I’m starting to home school my 2yr old son and as a newbie everything in here are big help. May God bless you a thousand folds 🙂

  2. Tonya Avatar
    Tonya

    Just wondering if you used self rising or all purpose flour?

    1. Beth Gorden Avatar

      all purpose =)

  3. Wendy Kief Avatar
    Wendy Kief

    For the oil, what type do you recommend? Vegetable? Canola? thanks!

    1. Beth Gorden Avatar

      We’ve done it with both Vegetable and Canola – so use whichever you have on hand =)