The Best No Cook Playdough Recipe (plus video tutorial)

Here’s the greatest no-cook playdough recipe. It’s so effortless to make that youngsters can aid (see the video tutorial)! Plus I’ll share how no cook playdough compares to cooked playdough recipes.

Updated March 2021

You know how significantly we enjoy the cooked homemade playdough recipe we’ve been producing forever. It’s the play clay from MaryAnn Kohl’s First Art, and I’ve posted about it possibly at least 20 other instances.

It’s amazing. The texture is smooth and playdough rubbery and the batch tends to make a generous quantity to play with. It also lasts just about forever.

So, how does a no cook playdough recipe examine?

We’ve produced 5 various no cook playdough recipes so far. Some use cold water, some use boiling hot water. Most of the other components are the similar but differ slightly in amounts. The recipes with the cold water are grainier and a bit drier in common.

Here’s the the no cook playdough recipe I like the incredibly greatest, which utilizes the hot water technique. I’ll show you a video tutorial of how to make it, share a recipe, and then inform you how no cook playdough compares to cooked playdough recipes.

See? Wasn’t that effortless? Now, here’s the recipe.

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How Does No Cook Playdough Compare to Cooked Playdough?

After providing no cook playdough recipe many trial runs, I have come to the conclusion that cooked playdough is much better, but that no cook playdough has it is spot, also. And we’ve really been producing the no-cook playdough more frequently mainly because it is faster, simpler, and the youngsters can get involved.

Why is cooked playdough much better?

Shelf life: The cooked playdough recipe we make lasts for months. The no cook playdough batches lasted a couple of weeks. By then they have been a tiny also dried out and, in some circumstances, a tiny also smelly to maintain applying.

It’s forgiving: Cooked playdough can be left out, uncovered, for hours, with tiny or no lasting impact. No cook playdough begins receiving a dry and crumbly coating if left out for any length of time.

Better texture: The cooked playdough has a beautiful, rubbery, squishy playdough texture and it holds with each other much better. Most of the no cook playdoughs are soft, but pull apart rapidly and you finish up with more crumbs and bits of playdough all more than.

However, as significantly as I enjoy cooked playdough, I admit that there are absolutely instances and causes to take into consideration producing no cook playdough as nicely.

Why use a no cook playdough recipe?

More kid-friendly to make: If you want your youngsters (or students) to be more involved in all actions of producing the playdough, then no cook is the way to go because there is no hot stove to deal with. If producing the type with boiling water, an adult can boil and pour the water, but kids can aid with the rest.

It’s faster and simpler: No cook playdough is a bit faster and simpler to make. Mostly just dump and mix.

Expendable: If you program to use it for a certain goal, such as a baking soda volcano or a kitchen table forest, then by all signifies whip up a speedy batch of no cook playdough.

Your turn to weigh in! What do you consider about no cook versus cooked playdough? Do you have a preference? Or would you rather just invest in yours prepared produced?

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Jean Van’t Hul

Children’s Art Enabler, Mother of Two, Lover of Cherry Pie and Nature