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Playdough Recipes and Play Variations

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Here we’ve got an all-time favourite recipe of early childhood teachers for cooked playdough.  

We also include recipes for:

– uncooked playdough

– special playdough suitable for shaping into Christmas tree ornaments and gifts to be painted later when hardened.

Playdough is great fun but when the novelty wears off children can become bored and their creativity declines.  So we give you some ideas to keep the playdough fun alive, and invite you to contribute your favourite recipes and ideas too.

First, you may wish to consider cultural concerns on the use of food ingredients and how you may mitigate these concerns.

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