Playing with playdough is not only fun, but great for strengthening hand muscles, sensory activity, and exploring creativity too. This apple playdough is a quick and easy-to-make autumn playdough to enjoy in the month of September. But this fall playdough recipe is also SUPER soft playdough that will blow your mind with how much fun it is to squish. I will show you how to make soft playdough with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. Use this apple playdoh as part of an apple theme or hands-on apple activities!
Apple Playdough
This soft playdough will delight the senses as kids work on motor skills and building hand muscles with an apple activity for kids. Use this fall playdough recipe in September when we are incorporating all things apple. This apple playdough recipe is such a fun project to make apples, apple pies, letters, numbers, and more. Try this apple activity for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, grade 1, and more! Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love incorporating this activity into you plans.
Soft Playdough
To whip up a batch of this playdough apple recipe yoou will need a few simple materials:
- 1 cup of hair conditioner
- 2 cups of cornstarch mix
- Food coloring
- black beads for seeds (optional)
- green pipe cleaners for stems (optional)
Apple playdoh
This NO COOK playdoug recipe couldn’t be any easier. Simply mix the corn starch and any hair conditioner you like in a bowl until they form a ball. Use more cornstarch if it is to sticky and more hair conditioner if it is crumbly.
HINT: Get an apple scented hair conditioner to make it scented apple playdough!
How to Make Soft Playdough
Mix in food coloring to get your apple colors of red, yellow, and green.
Autumn playdough
As their is a lot of white in the corn starch and conditioner, you will get soft pastel colors – which we LOVED. If you want more vibrant colors, you will need a LOT of food coloring.
This playdough has such a wonderfully soft, squishy texture that is so much fun to feel between your fingers. But it isn’t sticky at all! It was almost therapeutic and relaxing to play with!
Apple Activities for toddlers
We rolled out and made an apple with a chenille stick for stem and leaf.
Fall Activities for Preschoolers
Roll or pat the cream colored dough and make the inside of the apple’s creamy flesh with a border of the red around it. It’s like you’ve cut the apple in half. Now add black beans or black beads to make the apple seeds. You could easily turn this into a hands-on apple activity to help kids practice counting. Tell the children a number and have them put the correct number of black seeds in the apple.
Fall playdough recipe
Aren’t the too cute!?
Fall activity for toddlers
There are so mnay fun, creative ways to play with and decorate this apple activity using our quick and easy playdough recipe for kids!
Apple activities
You can also must make a ball, add a twig and leaft to creat a really simple, but cute apple.
Apple Activities
- Red Apple Pie Slime, Green Laffy Taffy Apple Slime, Yellow Fluffy Apple SLime
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Playdough Recipes
- TONS of free printable playdough mat to print and play (plus more free printable playdough mats on our sister site
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Slime Recipes
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Play Recipes
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