Category: Kids

Jello Play Dough

This Jello playdough recipe is another great craft project from jelloplaydoughrecipes you can do with your kids to make a toy you can produce time and time again. Jello ads scent and color to your homemade playdough making it one of the most fun and interesting ways to make your own. It is fairly complicated to make compared to some other playdough recipesand it is definitely not for kids to be doing on their own as their is come careful cooking involved. Although this is not a recipe for kids to make you can quite easily make it with them as a craft or toy project. It makes a pretty nice playdough if you can get the cooking just right, with a really nice texture and shape.

jello playdough recipe Jello Playdough Recipe
Ingredients:white flour – 1 cup
  • salt – 2 tbsp
  • cream of tartar – 2 tbsp
  • cooking oil – 2 tbsp
  • warm water – 1 cup
  • Jello – 1 3oz pack

Directions:

  • Add all the ingredients together in a big mixing bowl
  • Mix all the ingredients together until consistent
  • Pour into a pan and stir continuously
  • Wait for it to thicken into a big ball and then place it on a piece of wax paper to cool
  • Kneed it for a few minutes once cooled with some flour
  • Add any food coloring or glitter to spice things up!
  • Start playing!

This is one of the most fun  you can make so make sure to give it a try once you’ve mastered some simpler recipes! Be careful because Jello Playdough burns easily, so make sure you cook it on low heat and keep stirring. If you store it in an air tight refrigerated container you can keep it for quite a few days.

Lollipop Bunnies

For each bunny, gather the following items:

1 sucker
1/2 white chenille stem, about 5″ for ears
1   1″ flat wooden heart, painted white, for feet
1   1″ round beads, painted white, for head
2   1/2 white pompons for arms
2  1/4″ white pompons for cheeks
1  1/4 pink pompon for nose
2  google eyes
ribbon bow
hot glue
sharpie marker

Instructions:

Draw fluffy feet onto heart with marker if desired. Hot glue sucker with stick pointing straight up. Place head bead over stick, use a dab of glue to secure. Glue on arms, cheeks, nose and eyes.
Cut and bend stems as in photo for ears, stick into top of head, secure with a drop of glue. Last, glue on the bow; top of head for girl bunnies, under head as a bow tie for boy bunnies!