It rained a ton last night and today it was muggy and hot outside so I wanted to think up something fun to do with my granddaughters while I was babysitting today.
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| Making Playdough out of Kool-Aid is so easy, I’ll never buy it again! |
I had bought a pile of Kool-Aide packets to make playdough for my classroom kids last summer but I never got around to it. And that stuff was still up in the cupboard. So we pulled them all down, chose our colors (flavors!) and mixed up a batch in about 2 minutes! Seriously, I’m not Kidding! It was FAST!
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| There are only 5 ingredients in Kool-Aid Playdough besides the water…… |
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| My Granddaughters picked out their favorite Kool-Aid flavors for the Playdough. |
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| It took me about 2 minutes to mix up the Kool-Aid Playdough! Super EASY PEASY! |
It is soooooo super quick and easy. It calls for the playdough in the mix before adding the hot water, but I wanted to divide the one batch into 4 colors. So I experimented with it to see if we could add the Kool-Aide after it was all mixed up.
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| Kool-Aid makes great Playdough….it smells so good! |
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| Here were the colors we chose today for our Kool-Aid Playdough. |
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| Do you think they’re getting excited to start mixing them up? Oh yes they were! |
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| This is the before picture….nobody has rainbow fingers yet. 😀 |
It worked fine except for one thing; all our fingers were rainbow colors! It dyes you fingers pretty good, but after a few washes you can’t even tell. I should’ve taken a pictures of our rainbow fingers! What fun we had! And the playdough smells yummy too!
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| Meg chose Orange and Cherry-Red for her Kool-aid Playdough! |
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| Marisa chose purple-grape and blue-raspberry Kool-Aid for her Playdough. |
KOOL-AID PLAY DOUGH RECIPE
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
2 pkg kool-aid (unsweetened)
2 tablespoons cream of tarter
Mix together then add in:
2 cups boiling water
3 tablespoons oil
Mix and knead for 4 minutes or until cool.
We mixed it all in the Mixmaster for 4 minutes
then separated it into 4 bowls. Then we dumped
the Kool-Aid into each bowl so we’d get 4 colors!
Such a great rainy day activity.
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| Make some soon! |
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Looks like fun! 🙂
Mary
Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives
I have a mom sign up to be our "play dough Mom" and give her the recipe for homemade play dough. She sends in a new color of dough each month.