Candy Cane Playdough

 My son and I made two separate batches of play dough to make our candy cane play dough for our home and one to give as a gift to a friend of his.

The white playdough is made using a Basic Play Dough Recipe that we added 10 drops of mint essential oil (you could use mint extract instead). The red play dough was made using the Kool-Aid Play Dough Recipe (strawberry kool-aid) and we sprinkled in red glitter.

Basic Play-dough

1 C water

1/2 C salt

food coloring

2 T cooking oil

1/2 tsp. cream of tartar

1 1/2 C white flour

Boil water, stir in salt. Add food coloring & mix. Add cooking oil, cream of tartar & flour and stir with spoon until mixed. Knead dough to finish mixing dough to get a consistent color.

Kool-Aid Play-dough

1 C water

1/4 C salt

1 pkg of desired flavor/color of Kool-Aid

1 1/2 T canola oil

1 1/2 C flour

Boil water, stir in salt. Add kool-aid & mix. Add cooking oil & flour and stir with spoon until mixed. Knead dough to finish mixing dough to get a consistent color. This dough will have a pleasant scent.

Here my son is making worms. This is before he announced he was going to play worm farm and stuck his play worms in my plants. Doh!


Or you could try out some Cinnamon Scented Play Dough to get you in the holiday spirit! Or some Snow Play Dough to help you feel the season!