Easy Galaxy Playdough Recipe

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Are you a fan of playdough? We sure are! This fun, fantastic galaxy playdough recipe is out of this world!

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Playdough Helps Children Learn

Playdough can help children develop several important skills, including:

1. Fine motor skills: Squishing, rolling, and molding playdough can help improve hand strength and dexterity.
2. Creativity and imagination: Playdough helps children create and imagine, promoting self-expression and problem-solving skills.
3. Sensory development: Playdough can stimulate the sense of touch, helping kids learn about texture, temperature, and other sensory experiences.
4. Cognitive development: Playdough activities can encourage children to learn about shapes, colors, and sizes, as well as counting, measuring, and other basic math concepts.
5. Social-emotional skills: Playdough can also be a fun tool for children to play and interact with others, helping them develop social skills, such as sharing and cooperation.

DIY playdough is also great for teaching kids basic “cooking” skills such as measurements. 

What You Will Need to Make Galaxy Playdough

For this easy recipe for playdough, you’ll need the following galaxy ingredients:

• 3 cups Flour 
• 3 cups Water
• 1 ½ cups Salt
• 3 Tbsp. Vegetable Oil
• 3 tsp. Cream of Tartar
• Food Colouring—blue, purple, turquoise
• Silver Glitter
• Tiny Gold or Silver Stars

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How to Make Homemade Playdough

Mix the first 5 ingredients together in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until the mixture thickens and clumps together. 

Remove the dough from the pan and split it into 3 pieces.

Color each piece of dough with one of the food colors. Mix it by hand until the color is all mixed in. You can use plastic disposable gloves, so your hands don’t get coloured.

To turn this into galaxy dough, gently mix each color of the playdough together so it looks swirled. Be careful not to overmix – you want to see all the colors swirled together.

Add some glitter and some of the stars to the dough. That’s it! Your easy playdough recipe is ready for play time!

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Easy Galaxy Playdough Recipe

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Are you a fan of playdough? We sure are! This fun, fantastic galaxy playdough recipe is out of this world!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Active Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Difficulty Easy

Materials

• 3 cups Flour
• 3 cups Water
• 1 ½ cups Salt
• 3 Tbsp. Vegetable Oil
• 3 tsp. Cream of Tartar
• Food Colouring—blue, purple, turquoise
• Silver Glitter
• Tiny Gold or Silver Stars

Instructions

Mix the first 5 ingredients together in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until mixture thickens and clumps together.

Remove the dough from the pan and split it into 3 pieces.

Colour each piece of dough with one of the food colours.

Mix it by hand until the colour is all mixed in.

You can use plastic disposable gloves, so your hands don’t get coloured if you’d like.

Mix/Knead each color of the playdough together so it looks swirled.

Don’t overmix, you want to see all the colors swirled together.

Add some glitter and some of the stars to the dough.

It’s all ready to play!