🎃 Taste Safe Pumpkin Clay for Kids

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.

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Pumpkin Activities

Looking for more fun pumpkin activity and craft ideas to try this autumn? Check out these fun ideas:

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Pumpkin Activity for Kids

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Plus don’t miss our favorite pumpkin books for preschoolers these fun FREE Fall Do a Dot Printables, and Preschool Pumpkin Theme

Pumpkin Science

Super cute parts of a pumpkin craft to help kids learn the parts of a pumpkin
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Printable, Cut-and-Paste Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheet
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Flying Film Canister Ghost Rockets
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Quickly Growing Pumpkin Science Experiment
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Halloween Science Experiments

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Use your leftover Halloween candy to try some of these candy science experiments, or this water displacement with candy, or this fun candy STEM idea.

October Science Printables

Grab this free Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheets pack to learn about the life cycle of pumpkins
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All About Worms Worksheets

Pumpkin Math

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Super cute, free printable pumpkin addition game
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Make practicing math fun with this super cute, Pumpkin Patch Math Game
These fun, reusable pumpkin math worksheets are super cute and make practicing addition fun for kindergartners
Work on color words with this free pumpkin worksheets for preschoolers
Pumpkin Matching Game
Even older students will have fun getting in on the pumpkin theme with these multiplication pumpkin math puzzles
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Work on number bonds to 10 with these pumpkin math worksheets for kindergarten and grade 1
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Practice making shapes with these pumpkin shapes printable playdough mats
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Pumpkin Printables

Trace and Erase to practice again with this handy Pumpkin Printable Letter Tracing strips
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Practice reading with these cute, clever and FREE Word Family Sliders Pumpkin Activity for Kindergarten
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These super cute Pumpkin Letters and sounds puzzles allow children to practice letter tracing as well as working on beginning sounds
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You’ll love these no-prep Pumpkin Worksheets where students will color by vowels
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