Kids Play: St. Patrick's Play Dough

Do you love play dough as much as we do? Not just loving it for the kids to play nicely and quietly with, but for YOU to play with! 


Play Dough may very well be one of the childhood toys we will never out grow. We love making up fresh a fresh batch whenever the occasion calls for it. 


If you have ever made play dough from scratch, you know how soothing it can be kneading the warm dough in your hands and playing around with it. 


Even store bought play dough squeezed in your hands while playing with the kids is very relaxing. Must be where the makers of those stress release squeeze balls got the idea. 

We could not let St. Patrick's Day pass us by without making up a batch of green homemade play dough. We borrowed the recipe from Infarrantly Creative, and adjusted it just a wee bit.

St. Patrick's Green Play Dough Recipe
Adapted from Infarrantly Creative
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup salt
2 packages unsweetened Kool-Aid mix {we used what we had which was unsweetened lemonade}
1 cup boiling water
1 1/2 tablespoons oil
Several drops of green food coloring
Extra flour for kneading. {We found the dough needed additional flour. We added about 1/4 in total until it was no longer sticky. Once the additional flour was mixed in, the dough was very nice.}


Mix flour, salt and Kool-Aid well in a large bowl.


 Add boiling water and oil and then mix with a wooden spoon until it sticks together. When cooled and you can handle the dough mix the rest by hand blending all the color in so it is a nice even color. 

Dough should keep for up to three months in container or zip lock bag. This recipe was enough to fill the entire container below.

We have used other play dough recipes in the past, and while they were good, they called for cream of tartar and required some cooking. 


This recipe is cream of tarter less and no cooking! Which we like. The end result in our opinion is perfect.

Time to get busy and make some St. Patrick's Day play dough treats!

What would St. Patrick's Day be without a few play dough shamrocks.

Care for a scoop of green mint ice cream?!

For storing the play dough in and/or for gifting the play dough, we found these clear containers at the Dollar Tree. Five in a pack for a buck, pretty good.

To decorate the container we used free St. Patrick's Day party decor printables from Anna and Blue Paperie. Stefaine's printables are pretty well loved around here!

We found this really cool yarn at Walmart called "The Original Sugar'n Cream Twists", for $1.47! It looks like bakers twine. We only found green and white at our store.


We used the twine look a like as decoration and to hold a little hang tag on the play dough container.


Whether you package up the play dough as favors or little gifts, it is guaranteed to make for some creative expression.

When the kids are restless because they are bored and claim they have nothing to do, surprise them with a container or two of green play dough and chase away their blues! Be inspired, get creative!




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