Kids will have fun rolling the dough to make pumpkins and Halloween Jack-o-Lanterns with this taste safe pumpkin clay! This pumpkin playdough is perfect for October, harvest, fall, and pumpkin activities! This pumpkin play dough recipe is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders.
Pumpkin Clay
We love incorporating a variety of seasonal activities to make learning and playing extra fun! This pumpkin clay is so quick and easy-to-whip-up it is a must try! Plus you will love that this pumpkin playdough recipe is taste safe! So grab a couple supplies and you are ready to try this pumpkin activity for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. This simple 3 ingredient pumpkin playdough recipe uses only things found in your kitchen for consuming!
Pumpkin Playdough
All you need are a few simple materials to try this pumpkin spice playdough recipe that is safe for kids to eat:
- 1 can of pumpkin puree (15 oz)
- 2-3 cups of corn starch
- 2 Tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
Pumpkin Playdough Recipe
Method Combine the canned pumpkin and the pumpkin spice in a bowl and mix until the pumpkin is smooth.
Pumpkin Spice Playdough
Slowly begin to add corn starch and mix, Add enough cornstarch to make the dough non-stick and stay in a ball whiel not being too dry.
3 ingredient Playdough
Knead it with clean, dry hands. This will result in the most delightfully squishy and soft pumpkin play clay! Plus the dough smells AMAZING too! It is like playing with fall =)
Pumpkin Activities for Kids
This dough is just fun to shape and smell. The kneading, rolling, and cuting out with great or strengthening hand muscles.
Pumpkin Activities
We like to turn our dough into cute jack o lantern pumpkins. You can use any material you have on hand. We used wine cork, green pipe cleaners, craft sticks, black craft foam cut to make eyes, nose, and mouths.
Pumpkin Activities for Preschoolers
This pumpkin activity is sure to get kids excited about fall, autumn, and harves as well as Halloween too! Enjoy the squish feel and delightful smell as you let your kids explore their senses and creativity
October Science Printables
- Grab this free Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheets pack to learn about the life cycle of pumpkins
- Bat Life Cycle Worksheets
- Free Spider Life Cycle Worksheets
- Worm Worksheets – practice math, alphabet, literacy, and more!
- Growing Worms Observation Book
- All About Worms Worksheets
Pumpkin Recipes
Plus don’t miss our yummy pumpkin recipes for fall:
- Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe
- Easy Pumpkin Waffles
- Cute Pumpkin Krispy Treats
- Deliciuos Pumpkin Chili
- Crockpot Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
- Lava Cake Pumpkin Dessert
- 40 Yummy Pumpkin Recipes
- Everyone’s Favorite Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin Activities
- Phonics Printable Pumpkin Activities, Shape matching Pumpkin Activities Printable
- Parts of a Pumpkin Craft and pumpkin life cycle worksheets
- Pumpkin kindergarten sight word games online and Number Bonds Pumpkin Math
- Pumpkin Matching Game, cute October Crafts for Kids, plus Counting Free Pumpkin Activity Printables and Candy Count and Trace Pumpkin Activities
- Pumpkin Printables Counting Mats, and Learning Shapes Pumpkin Playdough Mats
- Word Family Pumpkin Activities and Shape Game – Pumpkin Activities for Preschoolers
- Counting Spider Activities and Pumpkin Traceable Letters
- Printable Pumpkin Math for Kindergartners and Letter Find Pumpkin Worksheets
Pumpkin Life Cycle Printables
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Fall Activities
- Scarecrow CVC Word Fall Activities for Kindergarten, FREE Fall Worksheets for Kindergarten , Printable Scarecrow Pronoun Game, Scarecrow Worksheets Pack, and Learning Colors Printable Fall Games
- Fall Sequencing Cards and Sequencing Worksheets and Letter Matching Leaf Printable Activity
- Fall Worksheets Pack, Fall Theme or Fall Theme Preschool, and Cute Fall Playdough Mats
- Fall Do a Dot Printables. Color Word Fall Worksheets, and Simple Fall Coloring Pages
- Fall Books for Preschoolers,these fall picture books, or these fall books for kids
- Counting Fall Worksheets for Preschoolers, Fall Playdough Mats – Counting Leaves
- Skip Counting Fall Math Worksheets, My Fall Counting Book – Fall Activity for Kindergarten
- Fall Nubmer Words Donut Worksheets, Fall Counting Book for Pre-K, Acorn Counting Game
- Multiplication Candy Corn Math or Addition/Subtraction Candy Corn Math Puzzles or Candy Corn Fall Math Number Puzzles, and Count and Clip Fall Math Activities for Preschoolers (or this pumpkin set)
- Fall Math Counting Crows Activity, Addition Fall Worksheets with Stickers (sticker alphabet fall worksheets or number recognition fall worksheets or color recognition fall worksheets)
- Fall Activities sorting pretty leaves by shape, Printable Fall Number Game for Preschoolers
- Fall Color by Number, Number Tracing Fall Worksheets, and Alphabet Fall Printable
- Scarecrow Short O Words Printable, Fall Sight Words Game, and Candy Corn Math Fall Activities for Kindergarten plus Nonsense Words Fall Activities for Kindergarten
- Color by Letter Fall Worksheets, Squirrel Fall Worksheets for kids and Cute Fall Worksheets for Preschoolers
- Nature Fall Scavenger Hunt or this Fall Leaf Scavenger Hunt plus Beginning Blends Fall Activity
- Syllable Clip Cards Fall Activity for Kindergarten, Free Fall Writing Prompts
- Leaf Alphabet Letters Matching Activity, Color Words Fall Emergent Reader, and Fall Science ideas for kids
- EASY Why do Leaves Change Color Experiment, Fall I Spy Printable, and September Activities for Kids
