2-Ingredient Quick and Easy Apple Scented Playdough Recipe

For the last 5 years whenever I have needed to make some playdough I have used the recipe from The Imagination Tree for the 4-minute no cook playdough and it’s been great. However, the kids were brought some Fun from Lush which is a fantastic multipurpose dough that they can wash with and play with in the bath. The ingredients are listed on the side and with talc/cornflour as the main ones and the rest simple soap ingredients, I thought it was time to try a version of our own a really quick and easy 2-ingredients apple scented playdough recipe which would be perfect to use for some hands-on maths activities for this week’s Virtual Book Club for Kids theme apples and featured book Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss.

Materials Need for Apple Scented Playdough

1 cup of All Purpose Flour

1/2 cup of either Apple Scented Dish-Soap or Apple Scented Shampoo

OPTIONAL: – Green Food Colouring

Making the 2-Ingredient Apple Scented Playdough

1. In a clean bowl pour in 1 cup of flour.
2. Add in 1/2 cup of either dish soap or shampoo.
3. Mix together with your hands.
4. Knead until smooth.
5. As our dough wasn’t very green we added some food colouring and intensified the colour.

This dough is much lighter than the playdough I normally make it also leaves your hands soft and doesn’t dry them out like normal playdough does.

Maths Activities for use with the Apple Scented Playdough

Although the playdough is great for fine motor skills and it smells amazing I like using it with the kids with some hands-on activities. Here’s some suggestions of activities you can do with the kids using the 2-ingredient playdough in a maths centre this week.

Shapes

Roll, manipulate and work with the playdough to create some 3D shapes or use some shape cookie cutters to create 2D shapes – this is a fantastic set that includes different sizes of the shapes so leads you to talk about measurement language as well as shape language with your kids.

Numbers

Make mini apples from the dough and use a person playdough mat and count out the number of apples on top of their head.

Calculations

Use the dough to add, subtract, count on, work on number bonds, half, double and total in a number of ways. Aim at your child’s level so if you have a young toddler that can count to 5 make up 5 apples and then take away one or add a new one. If your child is working on number bonds or halving and doubling then use the dough to create apples – you could even create 10 red apples (work in some red food dye instead of green to half the dough at the start) and 10 green apples and then you can visualise the number bonds or calculations you are working on.

Other Books for This Week’s Apple Themed Virtual Book Club for Kids

More Apple themed books for Preschooler and Toddlers

10 Red Apples by Pat Hutchins – Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Apples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace – Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Apple Pie ABC by Alison Murray – Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett – Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Apples by Gail Gibbons – Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall – Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids

Don’t forget that you can join us over on Facebook in the Virtual Book Club for Kids Group to get a full range of Apple-themed activities this week as well as an advance preview of next weeks additional book list and connect with over 2500 other people interested in bringing books alive with their kids.

Magnetic Names Apple Picking – from Preschool Powol Packets

How to Trace your name with Fingerprint Apples – from Whitty Hoots

Fine Motor Apple Graphing Activity – from Extremely Good Parenting

Ten Apples Up on Top File Folder Game – from Views from a Step Stool

Sequencing Numbers Words – from Adventures of Adam

Finger Painted Apple Trees – from Clare’s Little Tots

Playdough Apple Stacking Activity – from Inspiration Laboratories

Apple Snack for Kids –  from Craft Create Calm

Preschool Learning -~ Apple cooking – from Mama Smiles

Science in Motion Apple Game – from The Educators’ Spin On It

Magnetic Levitating Apple Stacking – from Teach Beside Me

Apple Colour Mixing Science – from Powerful Mothering

Colourful Spin Art Apple Banner – from Toddler Approved

Apple Themed Prewriting Activity – from Sugar Aunts

Ten Apples Up on Top Movement Activity – from Still Playing School

Are Apple Round? – from Peakle Pie

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2-Ingredient Quick and Easy Apple Scented Playdough Recipe

Prep Time

1 min

Total Time

1 min

 

A simple 2-ingredient, super soft and smooth apple scented playdough recipe and suggestions for math-based activities for toddlers and preschool kids.

Ingredients

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup either dish soap or shamppo apple scented
• Optional: Green and Red Food Colouring

Instructions

1. Add the soap/shampoo to the flour
2. Mix together
3. Knead to a smooth dough
4. Add food colouring if you wish

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