Kool Aid Playdough Recipe
This is a great edible playdough recipe and it can be eaten immediately. It’s basically the same playdough recipe as the edible playdough recipe.
Kool Aid Playdough Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of water
- 3 teaspoons of Cream of Tartar
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 package of Kool-Aid Mix (any flavor of unsweetened)
- 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
- 1/2 cup of sugar
Directions:
- Mix dry ingredients in a large/medium pan.
- Add water and oil.
- Stir over medium heat until it looks as playdough.
- The end result should have the color of your chosen kool aid.
- The whole process takes about 8 minutes.
This recipe and several of our other recipes can be found on other websites as well, but we had it first though. I suppose that proves its quality, so try it out!
Extended directions for Kool Aid Playdough Recipe
This is one of my favorite playdough recipes. The color, scent and taste you get from the Kool Aid is just amazing.
Step 1:
Before we begin we have to collect the ingredients. We have some Kool Aid, cream of tartar, flour, sugar, water and oil. The oil is already added to the water.

Step 2:
Add the dry ingredients to a pan. The Kool Aid doesn’t look like it will give much color at this stage, but just wait.

Step 3:
Add the water/oil mix to the pan and stir, the Kool Aid will explode with color. Keep stiring until all lumps are gone.

Step 4:
When it’s all stired well together it should look something like this. Now start cooking on medium heat, while slowly stiring.

Step 5:
When heated for a while it will start to get thicker, just like the image below. At this point you can expect 1-2 minutes until it’s done.

Step 6:
When done it should look like this. You can try to cook some more of the water out of it, just be careful so you don’t burn it.

Step 7:
My playdough was a bit sticky, but it was simple and quick to fix, just knead with some flour and it will improve quickly.

Step 8:
The finished playdough looked like this, very nice color and the scent is amazing. It actually tastes ok too, but not in very large portions I suspect. Good luck!


(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Worked well! We had to add a little extra flour at the end to counteract some tackiness but after that it was a really good dough and smelled great. We used grape and lemon-lime.
Great! It’s really quite easy to add some extra water or flour to balance the playdough. Glad it worked well
Why add sugar? shouldn’t it be salt? I have done this 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup water, 2 tablespoons of oil and 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar, 1 packet of unsweetened koolaid, and you can do it in the mirco-wave
Awesome! easy and quick. My 3 yr old helped. We put it in the freezer for a few miutes for quicker play! It was a b it tacky at first, we sprinkled some flour on the table and kneaded it in. With cook time cool time(with help from freezer) and prekneading……….it took all but 10 mins.
Glad to hear! Great that you included your child in making the playdough!
Well, the sugar makes it taste alot better.