Cooked Playdough Recipe
Most playdough recipes are cooked, and here is one example. There are playdough recipes that you don’t have to cook also, like our No cook playdough recipe, you should try several of our playdough recipes in order to find your favorite.
Cooked Playdough Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of plain flour
- 2 tbsp. of cooking oil
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
- 2 cups of water
- 1 cup of salt
- food coloring
Directions:
- Add the food coloring to the water.
- Place all of the ingredients in a medium size or large pan.
- Cook slowly on medium to high heat and stir until the playdough thickens.
- Done, very simple!
Keep the finished playdough in the fridge in a plastic container, that way it lasts longer. This playdough recipe takes less than 10 minutes to make and is super simple.
Extended directions for Cooked Playdough Recipe
Yes, you have to cook this playdough, but it’s really very simple and if I can manage it, so can you!
Step 1:
We begin with collecting the needed ingredients. We have the flour, salt, cream of tartar, water, oil and food coloring. I’ve actually mixed the water, food coloring and oil already.
Step 2:
Mix all the ingredients together in a pan. It will hopefully look something like this.
Step 3:
Start heating the mixture on medium heat, while stiring. After 2-3 minutes the texture will start to change and it’s getting more firm. From this point we will have the finished homemade playdough in about 2 minutes.
Step 4:
When it looks like this, it’s all done. You can remove it from the pan. Remember that the playdough is still hot, so don’t burn your hands.
If your playdough is really lumpy and dry at this stage, add a bit more water. If it’s too wet, try boiling it a bit more or add more flour/salt.
Step 5:
My finished playdough looked like this. You can add more or less food coloring or maybe a different color, your choice. Good luck with this play dough recipe!
(18 votes, average: 4.39 out of 5)
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12 Comments. 
I just made this for my kids and it worked out very nicely. I made white dough so that I could split it and add different colours later. I didn’t use all of the water, figuring that I could add more if it went wrong but I didn’t need to. It was very hard to mix at the end, but was too sticky to call ‘done’. After a bit longer I decided to get the texture right through kneading. I floured my surface (to absorb excess stickiness) and added colour while I kneaded. Very satisfying and tactile – you can really feel when it’s ready. Also added a ton of glitter. Can’t wait for my little one to wake up!
Great work! The glitter is definately a nice touch, I might even have to add a glittery playdough recipe!
Just wait though, when your child gets a little bit older it gets even better, since you can make the playdough together!
I just made another batch (make it all the time!) and it occurred to me to share a tip I discovered! When it begins to get a little stiff, slather 2 or 3 pumps of hand lotion on your hands (dont rub it in) and knead it into the dough. PERFECT! AND SO MUCH LESS DISGUSTING THAN ADDING WATER!
Great tip! I will definately give it a try! Thank you very much
My 3 yr. old grandson and I made this 2/4/12 when he came over for a sleepover. It was so simple to make. We made green but after it was done we added several drops of different food colors and gently kneaded the dough giving us swirls of different colors in our dough. We got out my cookie cutters and rolling pin and he played for hours. He was so proud of himself for making his own playdough. Thanks for a great rainy day activity!
Fantastic to hear! My son like the “experimenting” part too. We rolled different colored playdough into small balls, cut them in half and combined the different colors making them into 50/50 versions
Glad we could help on a rainy day
I made this last night and my son and i played with it for some time and then put it in an airtight leftover container. when he got home from school today it was all soft and sticky it was not play dough texture anymore. i threw it away cause i did not know if i did something wrong and did not have time to redo it nor had the ingredients. DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG? oh and i did not use the cream of tater.
The cream of tartar is actually quite important. It does something to the texture of the playdough. Try using it next time, it will probably make the difference.
Do you refridgerate this?
Sure, it will last longer if you do. But it’s more important to keep airtight.
I used to make this recipe all the time with my preschool class. We made it in an old electric skillet table in the classroom. The kids loved helping make the dough almost as much as playing with it and with the electric skillet set up nobody was working at a stove. You can pick them up at thrift stores and yard sales pretty cheap too.
Cool, thank you for the tip!