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Sparkle Snow Homemade Playdough Gift

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A Winter Themed Homemade Playdough Gift

I was asked to visit Priscilla’s Pre-K class today to tell them about my career.  (Hi, Mrs. Olin’s Pre-K Class!)  And since my job here at B-Inspired Mama is all about sharing creative ideas for mamas and their kids, I thought I’d plan something creative to do with them, too.  And what’s better to do with Preschoolers than play with some playdough?!  So I set to work making some winter-themed homemade playdough.  Here’s what I came up with…

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Sparkle Snow Homemade Playdough Recipe

I used the same playdough recipe that I used for my Transformers Inspired Homemade Playdough, but didn’t add any food coloring and used white glitter to add the sparkle.   I’m a homemade playdough convert now!  Here’s the recipe…

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Ingredients:

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup salt
  • 2 Tablespoons cream of tartar
  • 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 4 Tablespoons glitter
  • 1 – 2 cups boiling water
  • a couple drops of essential oils for adding scent (optional)

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Steps:

(This time I used my stand mixer with the dough hook, and it was so easy!  But you can use a good old bowl and wooden spoon, too!)

  1. Mix flour, salt, cream of tartar, glitter, vegetable oil, and a couple drops of your essential oils in a large bowl.
  2. Slowly add boiling water and mix until it makes a somewhat sticky dough.
  3. Knead, knead, knead.  It should get less sticky, but if you need to you can knead in a bit more flour.

Sparkle Snow Homemade Playdough Gift for Preschoolers

Filling Containers of Sparkle Snow Homemade Playdough Gift at B-Inspired Mama

I plan to take lots of holiday cookie cutters in to let the kids play with the playdough with me, but I also packaged some playdough up for each child to take home, too.  I just put a handful of playdough and a sprinkle of plastic snowflake confetti into each 8 oz. plastic container.

A Little Sparkle Snow Homemade Playdough Gift at B-Inspired Mama

This little homemade playdough gift would be the perfect size for a stocking stuffer, too!  And you could change it up with different colored playdough and confetti or small toys.

So do you think they’ll like their little homemade playdough gifts?  I hope so!  Have you made homemade playdough yet?  If so, I’d love to hear about your recipe in the comments below!

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Filed Under: Christmas, Fun and Easy Kids Crafts, Holidays, Play Dough, Seasons, Winter Tagged With: Gifts, Gifts for Preschoolers, Glitter, Handmade Gifts, Homemade Playdough, Playdough, Snow, Snowflakes, Sparkles

About Krissy of B-Inspired Mama

Former M.Ed Art Teacher. Current Blogger & Social Media Influencer. Always Crazy & Creative Mama of 3.

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  1. Laurie says

    January 16, 2015 at 9:16 PM

    This came out great – thanks Krissy! I made two batches in different colors and put them in cute animal containers (that I found in the clearance section) and put them in my daughter’s goodie bags for her birthday party. I couldn’t find those nice snowflakes, but I found stars and hearts at Michael’s. Great end product that was fun to make!

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    • Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says

      January 19, 2015 at 8:28 AM

      Oh – so glad it worked out for you! I be the kids loved it!

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  2. Maria says

    December 12, 2013 at 7:57 PM

    I love this gift idea -play dough make such a wonderful gift (in my opinion) when paired with fun accessories! I especially like that mitten cookie cutter -cute! I just spent an entire hour today making play dough for gifts -it felt VERY long, but the resulting gift packs are satisfyingly complete and looking marvellous!

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  3. Judith says

    December 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM

    Hello,
    I’m a dutch mother and art teacher. I have always had a lot of fun crafting with home made playdough (and baking it in the oven, afterwards painting it). On Pinterest I saw your recipe, and I noticed that you use an extra ingredient: ‘cream of tartar’. Now I’m wondering what that is. What do you usually use it for? Is t powder, or fluid? I’m wondering what it is called in dutch, but ‘google translate’ can’t help me with it, can you?
    PS: really love your crafty ideas!

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    • Lisa says

      December 10, 2013 at 8:27 PM

      Cream of tartar is a powder that you can find in the baking section of your store. It is mostly used for making meringues/meringue pies or it can also be used for cleaning. I have read on many other sites and other recipes for Play-doh that use lemon juice instead of the cream of tartar (as it is pretty expensive &/or sometimes you just want to make Play-doh and don’t have it on hand) Oh & p.s. I have never used a squirt of dish soap in my Play-doh!

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      • Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says

        December 11, 2013 at 1:56 PM

        Thanks for answering this, Lisa! I’m a newbie playdough-maker. 😉 And I add the dish soap as an alternative to glycerin (a main ingredient to dishsoap), which I don’t obviously have on had but gives the playdough just a bit more shine and smoothness. I know it can go without, though. 🙂

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        • Lisa says

          December 12, 2013 at 3:59 PM

          Oh, I have used glycerin before, but hadn’t realized that it was one of the main ingredients in dish soap. That makes sense now. Also as an update I made this playdough recipe using the vinegar instead of cream of tartar finally last night and it turned out great. Just in case anyone had read that and was wondering . I also added white non-toxic tempra & made this a bright white! Fun stuff! Love, love, love your blog by the way!!!!!

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          • Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says

            December 13, 2013 at 1:07 PM

            Oh – good idea to add the paint – I hadn’t even thought of that!

        • Lisa says

          December 12, 2013 at 4:10 PM

          P.s. (sorry for so many posts) but I was wondering where you got your snowflake confetti/table scatter from. It is SO cute! Thanks in advance. 😉

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          • Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says

            December 13, 2013 at 1:07 PM

            Hi Lisa! I found it at Walmart in their holiday crafts section. 🙂

    • Lisa says

      December 11, 2013 at 12:25 AM

      Ok, correction of my lemon juice comment. I looked back & three recipes I have call for vinegar as the replacement for the cream of tartar. The following is a quote from one of the sites I follow- “I ran out of cream of tartar after 1 tablespoon, so I had to use vinegar to make up the difference.  Just double the tablespoons when using vinegar (1 tablespoon cream of tartar= 2 tablespoons vinegar).  If you use vinegar, just make sure to add a little extra flour (like 1/4 to 1/3 cup) so that it will still be the right consistency.  And don’t worry about your playdough smelling like vinegar…as it cooks, the smell goes away.” I have not personally tried this yet but I sure hope it works because I’m going to try it this week when I make my white “snow Play-doh” Good luck to you!

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