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Last night we were watching the Texas Rangers play in the World Series. About half way through when the score became incredibly unfavorable for the Rangers, I could not watch anymore.
So, the kids and I carved a pumpkin in the kitchen. As the crowd cheered my husband updated me… is that a good cheer or a bad cheer, I would ask.
Luke (5) would run to the living room and check the score for me from time to time. He would report, Texas has 3 and the Carnivals (that is what he calls the Cardinals, sorry) have 8.
While we carved our pumpkin, I remember Living Montessori Now, recently shared some educational pumpkin resources on my site. When searching through these ideas, I found an awesome site called Montessori Print Shop, which is where I came across this recipe I am going to share with you today.
We made Pumpkin Pie Play Dough today and my little boys had so much fun!
Ingredients:
- 5 1/2 cups flour
- 2 cups of salt
- 8 teaspoons of cream of tartar
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1 35gm container of Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 4 cups of water
- red and yellow food coloring (I forgot to add this)
In a large pot (saucepan) (like what you would use to boil a big batch of spaghetti noodles), dump in your flour.
Then add the salt.
Measure out the Cream of Tartar and add it to the pot.
Add in your Pumpkin Pie Spice and stir.
Then add the oil.
And finally the water.
Like I said, I totally forgot about the food coloring, but this is where you can add it too.
Add the coloring until you get the desired tone of pumpkin you want.
Warm the ingredients up over a medium heat.
Stir, stir, stir.
Mix it until you get all the lumps out.
After about 5 minutes of stirring it will start to look like brown sugar.
This means you are good to go.
Dump the dough out onto a floured space.
Start to knead the dough until it is no longer sticky.
The correct dough consistency will look like this:
Play and enjoy, but do not eat it.
You can smell it. Oh, it smells amazing!
We used cookie cutters and toys to make things and create.
So much fun!
- 5½ cups flour
- 2 cups of salt
- 8 teaspoons of cream of tartar
- ¾ cup oil
- 1 35gm container of Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 4 cups of water
- red and yellow food coloring (I forgot to add this)
- In a large pot (saucepan) dump in your flour.
- Then add the salt.
- Measure out the Cream of Tartar and add it to the pot.
- Add in your Pumpkin Pie Spice and stir.
- Then add the oil.
- And finally the water.
- Like I said, I totally forgot about the food coloring, but this is where you can add it too. Add the coloring until you get the desired tone of pumpkin you want.
- Warm the ingredients up over a medium heat. Stir, stir, stir. Mix it until you get all the lumps out.
- After about 5 minutes of stirring it will start to look like brown sugar. This means you are good to go.
- Dump the dough out onto a floured space.
- Knead the dough until it is no longer sticky and takes on a play dough consistency.
- Play and enjoy, but do not eat it. You can smell it. Oh, it smells amazing!
- We used cookie cutters and toys to make things and create. Enjoy!
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Love, love and love this. I’ve never heard of it before! Definitely putting this on the list for the little girls to do this week.
Pinned it.
How awesome- let me know how it goes.
Thank you so much for pinning it! (And for reading.)
Crystal i SOOOOOO want to make this for my class!
You should Pam. It is so much fun and smells so good!
How fun! I want to make some.
Kim, Skylar would have so much fun with it. Great homeschool project.
My mom had a play dough recipe similar to this when we were growing up. Great memories. You can add other “flavor” scents …she used vanilla a lot. As I remember, this product lasts longer than the store bought variety. Hands need to be washed afterward b/c of the salt, though! Thanks for posting this!
Awe Becki, that is so sweet.
I will make sure they wash their hands. Great point!
How fun! I would have never thought of using a scent in homemade playdough. I bet it smells amazing. I might have to make some for my youngest.
Jen, I am storing it in a Ziplock bag to keep it from drying out. I can smell the pumpkin through the bag. Smells like fall.
That sounds like something my kiddos would love. And anything that smells like pumpkin is a hit with me!
Love this! Play dough is always a hit at our house and I would love the smell of pumpkin pie while the kids are playing with it!
Oh girl! I have made homemade playdough a bagillion times but never with the smell of pumpkin pie! I’m thinking this would be a great treat for us this weekend. Although I might have to enjoy a little pumpkin latte while Charlie plays…Thanks for sharing the recipe!
A pumpkin latte sounds perfect.
Have fun!
That’s AWESOME!! I totally need to make this!! I just made Kool Aid Playdoh & it was fun too. I would love for you to link up http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
~Beth
I love surrounding myself with wonderful smells. It brings me lots of joy and the idea of having the play dough smell like pumpkins is just wonderful.
My boys are older now.. 14, 12 and 11 so they don’t like playing much with playdough.. however I do have my nephews and my niece that I can make this recipe with and play with them.
Thanks for the step by step to make it easier for us to use.
Will tweet this now. Too good not to tweet
All the best,
Eren
Awe, thanks for the tweet and thanks for reading.
Honestly, the play dough recipes that require cooking have always turned me away. But, once I made this one it was so easy I really wanted everyone to see how simple it is. You cook it for a very short period of time just to combine everything and get the lumps out.
Pass the recipe on to your nieces and nephews. I bet they would love this fun fall project.
Hi Crystal,
Will do and I’m excited to make this here at home since I believe that the smells will be very therapeutic for me.
Blessings always,
Eren
Thanks for the recipe! So great! I’m hosting a Fabulous Fall party over at Not So Simple Housewife and I’d love for you to link this up! We are celebrating Fall and giving me and everybody else some great inspiration. We are looking for crafts, decor, food, and more! I’d love for you to add this and any other fall posts you may have!
Kaitlin-The Not So SImple Housewife
http://notsosimplehousewife.blogspot.com/2011/10/fabulous-fall-link-party.html
I linked up. Thank you so much for the invite.
Bet that smelled amazing and your creations turned out so cute!
Thank you Lori! My boys were so creative with that play dough. I loved the spiderman body impressions as ‘skeletons’. They crack me up!
I could bury my nose in a jar of pumpkin pie spice all day
I think I like the natural color without the food coloring. So glad I stumbled upon this recipe. Thanks!
Gwen, pumpkin pie spice is the smell of fall isn’t it.
OMG! This is delightful! I would have trouble not wanting to eat it lol. I am looking for guest speakers on my blog to post tutorials for the season. If you would be interested please please contact me. I would love to have you! Please come link this to my VIP party this weekend http://designergarden.blogspot.com/2011/10/vip-party-34.html and have a Happy Halloween!
Sooo creative..I would LOVE for you to please share this awesome post at my 6Wicked Days of Halloween party today pweeease… http://theartsygirlconnection.blogspot.com/2011/10/flash-back-halloween-6-wicked-days-of.html ..wishing u a spootacular day
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looks great, I think even I might be tempted to eat it! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
I bet this smells amazing! I would eat it =o)
What a fantastic idea! My son would love this! I’d be so excited if you’d share it here:
http://oneartmama.blogspot.com/2011/11/our-home-for-holidays-party.html
we just made pumpkin spice play dough today – how funny that I came across this now!!!
It smells delicious! Would love for you to share on the Sunday Showcase – http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/search/label/Sunday%20Showcase
Bern
I bet my 9 year old would like this. It would give me an excuse to play with it too
Sooo… I guess it’d be wrong to eat this right?
Im sure it smells amazing! Great idea 
Stopping by from http://everything-underthemoon.blogspot.com. It’d be great if you could stop by and give us a visit and PRETTY PLEASE check out Random Acts of Kindness Week going on all next week. Would love it if you could participate!! http://everything-underthemoon.blogspot.com/2011/11/kindness-and-thanksgiving.html
Have a great weekend!!
Thank you for linking up to Homeschooling on the Cheap! Last week. Your post was the #1 most clicked link~ Thank you for sharing and stop into see your feature and link up more ideas!
Have a great week,
Kelli
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OH MY!!! I LOVE pumpkin anything. I spotted this atthe bowdabra link party and just had to click. Can’t wait to try this with my girls. Thanks for sharing!!!
This is awesome. I’ve made kool aid play dough but this is a new twist! Thanks!
This is too cute! We’d love if you’d join our Countdown to Fall link party! Hope to see you there! Have a great week!
http://dixie-n-dottie.blogspot.com/2012_08_27_archive.html
I never heard of pumpkin pie playdough before. What a great idea!! I would love for you to share this on our made for or by kids linky http://wemadethat.blogspot.com/2012/08/we-made-that-linky-1.html
That looks like fun and I’m sure it smells good, too, my kids would probably want to eat it!
Congrats, Crystal & Co! Your wonderful idea was our #1 most clicked link last week. We are featuring you on our blog, Facebook/Twitter and Pinterest Boards. You are already a contributor on our Feature Friday Board from your past submissions. Feel free to link up your crafty ideas any time on that board and we will repin them for you.
Thanks again!
Susie @Bowdabra
http://bowdabrablog.com/2012/08/31/feature-friday-bowdabra-top-crafty-showcase-picks-12/
Having kids make playdough would be such a great activity to do with friends on an after school play date. They could take turns choosing the scents and colors. Thanks for linking up and sharing at After School!
Thanks for sharing on our After School LInk up. I know we’ll be making a batch of this for sure to incorperate sensory play after school. Can’t wait to see how it turns out. Hope you’ll join us all year long as we share the activities we do after school with our children.
What a fun idea and I bet it smells amazing! Thanks so much for sharing at Mom On Timeout!
We love this and are featuring you in our top 10 Pumpkin crafts!
Susie at Bowdabra
http://bowdabrablog.com/2012/09/27/top-10-pumpkin-halloween-crafts/
I made two batches of this today to send to my son’s class Halloween party! In the first batch, it took FOREVER to make it stop being tacky to the touch, so in the second batch, I started with an extra cup of flour.
I added 60 drops of food coloring in each batch, and got a pale orange color.
It smells great!
Each batch made ~8 cups of play dough!
Amanda- how exciting. What a great treat to share with a classroom of kids!
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