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Valentine's Day Play Dough with Glitter!

Modified: Oct 21, 2024 · Published: Feb 3, 2011 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 8 Comments

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Almond Scented Glitter Play Dough: make your own almond scented and glittery play dough for Valentine's Day, your kids will LOVE!

Yesterday was a snow day here, and my little girls needed an activity to keep them busy for awhile. We decide to make some Valentine's Day play dough together.  I remember my mom making us play dough as a kid, but I had never made it before. It was super easy, and has already provided hours of fun! And to make it extra special, we added glitter for Valentine's Day, and almond extract for a great smell!

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The finished play dough turned out to be really pretty with all the glitter, and smelt great too. I dug out all my Valentine's Day cookie cutters and the girls had a great time creating, while I got on with another project. 😉

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I think this would be great for a Valentine's Day party activity also, and you could make cute containers of it for everyone to take home as a favour. The possibilities are endless!

Recipe

Almond Scented Glitter Play Dough: make your own almond scented and glittery play dough for Valentine's Day, your kids will LOVE!

Almond Scented Glitter Playdough

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Author: Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist

Ingredients

  • ½ cup salt
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 tablespoon cream of tartar
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 cup water
  • food colouring

Instructions

  • Combine ingredients in a saucepan. Heat gently, stirring all the time. When the dough has a good consistency, take it off the heat and allow to cool.
  • I added about a tablespoon of almond extract to the ingredients to make it smell extra special too. My girls loved it. I didn’t add the food colouring at the beginning because I wanted to make two colours out of one batch. So, when it was done cooking, rather than leave it to cool I divided it into two balls and added food colouring and sprinkles to them and kneading it until it was well mixed.

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Serving: 1Servings
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  1. Kristin Sellars says

    February 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    I loved this idea so much I included it in a blog post I wrote about my favorite Valentine's day ideas/goodies.

    Here's the link 🙂

    http://www.lubirdbaby.com/2011/02/valentines-day-goodies.html

    Kristin

  2. dnr says

    February 10, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    Hi Michele,
    It's just craft glitter.

  3. michele says

    February 10, 2011 at 1:51 am

    Love this, is that edible glitter or craft glitter???

  4. Jess Lane says

    February 05, 2011 at 10:38 am

    Love this! Great gift for my 2 girls - who LOVE pink!

    I'm your newest follower from Tatertots and Jello!

    http://barefootbysea.blogspot.com/2011/02/fairy-wings-tutorial.html

  5. Rachel says

    February 04, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    I love this idea for Valentines- what a fun gift! Thanks so much for the how-to, I'll be linking.

  6. The Treasurista says

    February 04, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    So Fun! Would love for you to add to my Thursday's Treasure Party @

    http://www.thetreasurista.blogspot.com

  7. Allison says

    February 03, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    How fun is that! I've made playdough before but love that you added all that too it. Thanks for linking up!

  8. Elizabeth says

    February 03, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    Great Idea! Love It and Will Be Borrowing It! 🙂

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