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Blueberry Sparkle Playdough

July 27, 2011 by Anna Ranson

After we made the natural food colouring this week I wanted to try out using the blueberry one to dye some homemade playdough. It turned out a beautiful raspberry pink colour and smelt lovely and fruity!

 We added some red glitter to make it sparkly and even more appealing. We have a bit of a thing for glitter, as you may have noticed!

They made some blueberry pancakes in a little pan and chopped them up with a (blunt) pizza cutter.

 And then they set to work decorating them with beads, buttons and gems. Delicious!

 I had to really fiddle with the recipe to make sure it wasn’t too sticky because of using a fruit juice-based colouring. These are the quantities I ended up with, which seemed to work well eventually!

  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 1/4 cup blueberry colouring topped up to a full cup with boiling water (so 1 cup liquid altogether)
  • 3/4 cup of salt
  • 1.5 tablespoons of oil
  • 1/2 tablespoon cream of tartar
Mix together vigorously and then knead until all lumps have gone. This should take a few minutes. If too sticky add a little more flour, 1/4 of a cup at a time. If too dry add another teaspoon of oil. Experiment!

Learning Links:

  • Sensory: exploring textures using fingers and scents using nose. Describe sticky/ dry/ liquid/ solid
  • Motor skills: develop fine motor skills by pinching, squeezing, rolling, squashing, flattening
  • Creativity: pretend and role play scenarios eg bakery, sweet shop, pizzas, pancakes. Using one tool to represent another in imaginary play. Decorating using beads and sparkles
  • Knowledge & Understanding (Science): Mixing ingredients together, observing change of state of materials, predicting outcomes, experimenting outcomes of adding more flour/water, talking about real cooking ingredients and tools
  • Maths: counting out cup fulls, measuring and quantities, capacity- full, empty and half full
  • PSHE: working independently and also collaboratively to achieve an outcome, cooperation, sustaining involvement in a self-chosen project/ activity
Cakie: 34 months
Pop: 16 months

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Filed Under: Creativity, Fine Motor Development, Homemade, Messy Play, Play Recipes, Playdough, Sensory, Toys, Toys & Games Tagged With: Play Dough, Recipes, Sensory Play

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Comments

  1. Jamie @ hands on : as we grow says

    July 27, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    Oh I bet that playdough smells good and would be hard to resist eating! Love buttons in the playdough too!

  2. PuppyLovePrincess says

    July 27, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    i’m thinking this would be really fun for valentine’s day.

  3. Heather @ MontessoriBuddy says

    July 27, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    This sounds like the best smelling play dough I’ve ever heard of! That is such a cool idea!

  4. Julia Deering says

    July 27, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    Sparkly glitter that smells good too? Fab. Thanks for the recipe. We’ll have to try this.

    I LOVE all your pics but the one which shows a little hand just waiting to touch the sparkly stuff melted my heart – oooo, those little pudgy paws! x

  5. Senorita Tortuga says

    July 27, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    We love glitter too – and I have a boy 😉 Who can resist sparkles?

    We put buttons in our dough, too!

  6. @jeannezoo says

    July 27, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    “anything is better with glitter” – maybe that is my new motto 🙂 love the recipe!!

  7. RedTedArt says

    July 28, 2011 at 1:06 pm

    I am sorry, but THAT looks GOOD ENOUGH to eat… nom nom nom…

    Thanks for joining Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

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