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
Oh I bet that playdough smells good and would be hard to resist eating! Love buttons in the playdough too!
i’m thinking this would be really fun for valentine’s day.
This sounds like the best smelling play dough I’ve ever heard of! That is such a cool idea!
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
We love glitter too – and I have a boy 😉 Who can resist sparkles?
We put buttons in our dough, too!
“anything is better with glitter” – maybe that is my new motto 🙂 love the recipe!!
I am sorry, but THAT looks GOOD ENOUGH to eat… nom nom nom…
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Maggy