Pumpkin Play Dough Recipe

                                                        Pumpkin Play Dough Recipe

A great recipe to invite all of your senses into Fall!

Ingredients for Basic Play Dough

1 cup flour
1 cup water
1/2 cup salt
3 tablespoons cream of tartar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
food coloring (when you are creating basic play dough)

Combine all of the dry ingredients in a medium pan.  Add water and oil.   Cook on medium heat.  Stir continuously.  When the dough mix pulls away from the sides and forms into a large ball, the dough is ready to be placed in a small bowl tocool.

To create Pumpkin Play dough add the following to the basic play dough recipe listed above:

Add Pumpkin pie spice and orange food coloring to create dough that looks and smells like pumpkin pie

Add graham cracker crumbs to get that pie crust smell as well

Adding raw oats will correlate with the Harvest theme and create a new texture

Mix in a few pumpkin seeds and have students search for the seeds by manipulating the dough