Pumpkin Pie Scented Play Dough Recipe

Pumpkin Pie Scented Playdough?! BE STILL MY HEART! ? There’s only one problem with this incredible scented play dough recipe- I want to eat it!

Homemade play dough is always great..  scented play dough is about a thousand times better! I have always loved the way play dough feels in my hands, and the way it can be formed into practically anything. It is So. Much. Fun!

Benefits Of Scented Play Dough Recipe

From a more practical perspective, I love homemade play dough’s versatility. It helps kids strengthen motor skills, promotes creativity, and is the perfect medium for open ended sensory play. Another bonus– it is easy to customize to any theme with spices, food coloring, or other add ins. 

Fall brings some especially cozy smells, and those scents are the inspiration behind this Pumpkin Pie scented play dough. We used pumpkin pie spice, and a touch of orange food coloring, to really ring in fall!

How To Cook Scented Play Dough Recipe

So how do you make it? Super easy. Yes, you need a pan– this is a cook recipe, but the texture is so divine t will be worth it! 

Grab a medium sized saucepan, the following few ingredients, and get making!

• 1 1/2 cups of flour
• ½ cup of salt
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
• 2 TBS vegetable oil
• 3 TBS + pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup water
• Food coloring (optional)

Start by adding the water to the saucepan and bring it to a boil.

In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt, pumpkin pie spice and cream of tartar together.

When the water is boiling, add the oil to it. Add the food coloring during this step as well. I find it to be less messy when added here, versus kneading it in to the scented play dough later.

Slowly stir in the powdered ingredients, mixing as you go.

Take off the heat and mix some more!

Dump the playdough ‘ball’ onto a cutting board or parchment paper so that it is easier to clean up. Mix and knead with your hands until the play dough is smooth. This playdough ‘ball’ will still be hot so BE CAREFUL! I don’t let my youngest littles help with this part.

Sensory Play With Scented Play Dough

Now that your play dough is ready to be played with, kids can have at it!

Mold it. Spread it. Roll it. Cut it. Whatever they want to do with it.

Play dough is a FANTASTIC sensory activity and assists in strengthening fine motor skills and hand muscles. We’ve said it before– kids need their finger and hand muscles strengthened for so many skills! Tying shoes, handwriting, zipping zippers.. the list goes on!

As always, have fun with it! 

You might also enjoy:

• Fall Sensory Bin
• Easy Bubble Solution Recipe
• DIY Playdough Marble Maze

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Pumpkin Pie Scented Play Dough Recipe

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups flour
• .5 cup salt
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
• 2 TBSP vegetable oil
• 3 TBSP pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup water
• food coloring optional

Instructions

1. Start by adding the water to the saucepan and bring it to a boil.

2. In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt, pumpkin pie spice and cream of tartar together.

3. When the water is boiling, add the oil to it. Add the food coloring during this step as well. I find it to be less messy when added here, versus kneading it in to the scented play dough later.

4. Slowly stir in the powdered ingredients, mixing as you go.

5. Take off the heat and mix some more!

6. Dump the playdough ‘ball’ onto a cutting board or parchment paper so that it is easier to clean up. Mix and knead with your hands until the play dough is smooth. This playdough ‘ball’ will still be hot so BE CAREFUL!

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