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3 ingredient Dinosaur Dough

February 23, 2016 by Kate 18 Comments

You’ll absolutely love making my silky soft 3 ingredient dinosaur dough. It’s so insanely easy to make, yes you only need 3 ingredients (possibly 2). It will have your children playing for hours because playdough is so open-ended and wonderful. Seriously, make this. How to make 3 ingredient dinosaur dough with kids for sensory play. Super soft play dough. You guys have loved my fairy dough recipe, it has been my most popular post on Laughing Kids Learn for quite awhile now. With this in mind, I wanted to get a little dough creative once again and share another wonderful recipe but this time for all the children who love dinosaurs! Rawwww

Recommended age: 3 years+
(Strict and active supervision is required at all times. This dough is NOT edible)

dinosaurs in playdough is great for sensory play bins and uses only 3 ingredients. Oh my gosh, we had so much fun playing with this simple dough and found ourselves playing for hours. We added some plastic dinosaurs and had them explore and stomp around our made up dinosaur land. It was wonderful. Possum (aged 4 years) pinched, pushed, squashed the 3 ingredient dinosaur dough to create various dinosaur lands, which included caves, mountains and rough terrane.  dinosaur play dough with grass Playdough of any kind is fabulous for fine motor development, this is no exception. We couldn’t resist the urge to include a bit of outdoor nature. Grass, leaves and twigs were all added to our dinosaur dough as another layer to our play experience. 


 
dinosaur play dough and making imprints




playing with dinosaur dough and learning about fossils

Silky soft texture

This dinosaur dough has a super silky soft texture. It’s marshmallow soft and children can very easily press objects into it and clearly see, in detail, the markings of their object.  It’s really lovely and because of the ingredients it uses, it’s soft on skin and leaves hands smelling so beautiful.  dinosaur dough is simple to make and uses only 3 ingredients.

How to make 3 ingredient dinosaur dough

So for this special 3 ingredient dinosaur dough you will need one cup of hair conditioner, that’s right, hair conditioner. It doesn’t matter what brand you use, in fact I used the cheapest conditioner that I could find on my supermarket shelf.  kneading dinosaur playdough that can be used in sensory play bins for preschoolers. After that you’ll want to add 2.5 cups of cornflour (corn starch for those in America). Mix it together carefully in a bowl before adding some brown food colouring or gel. It’s difficult to tell you how much colouring to add as food colouring drops react differently to gel colouring. I used about 1 levelled teaspoon of gel colouring to achieve a dinosaur mud swamp-like colour. Of course you can add more to achieve a darker colour, just be mindful that you don’t want the dinosaur dough too dark that it’s stains little hands. soft dinosaur dough for playdough that uses only 3 ingredients It’s important to knead the dough very, very well. Depending on what country you are from, ingredients will respond differently so if the mixture is too dry, add small amounts of the conditioner and knead the dinosaur dough until you reach the desired texture. If the dinosaur dough is wet, add small increments of corn flour and knead it through, again until you reach your desired dinosaur dough like texture.  This playdough needs to be tightly wrapped in cling film and then stored in an air-tight container. Like all playdough, as it is exposed to air it will start to dry out, however, adding a small bit of conditioner will help restore its texture. FB dinosaur dough recipe for play I think this dinosaur dough is going to be one of the best playdough recipes you’ll ever make and your child will ever play with. I encourage you to give it a try, it only takes 3 simple ingredients! Of course it is not edible so be sure to be supervising your child, but you’ll be amazed at the texture and all the wonderful ways your child plays with it. 

Do you have a child who likes dinosaurs? 

Warning : Please be careful which conditioners you choose to make this as some products can contain ingredients that cause skin irritations

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Filed Under: 3 - 5 years, 5 - 10 years, activities for preschoolers, activities for toddlers Tagged With: 3 ingredients, dinosaurs, playdough

Comments

  1. Brittany says

    March 31, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Thanks for the inspiration, this is a super neat idea! I am going to be trying this with my girls tomorrow as we are homeschooling and this goes along perfect with our “D for dinosaurs” theme for the letter of the week! I believe it will be a huge hit with my girls! (as play dough ALWAYS is here!)

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    • Kate says

      March 31, 2016 at 11:40 pm

      Thank you Brittany! So wonderful to read that you’ll be giving this a go tomorrow with your girls. I hope they have lots of fun with it. It’s regularly requested at our home. Thank you kindly for your comment. πŸ™‚

      Reply
      • LooptyCrafts says

        November 10, 2016 at 2:49 am

        Yes thank you so much for posting this! I am babysitting a 3 y/o and she lovess dinosaurs! I will definitely be making this with her!!

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        • Kate says

          November 10, 2016 at 2:43 pm

          You’re so very welcome! πŸ™‚

          Reply
  2. Pat Mock says

    September 7, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    Can this be used to make paw prints for ornaments? Air dried?

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    • Kate says

      September 11, 2016 at 8:37 am

      Fabulous question Pat. I don’t think it could be sorry Pat. It wouldn’t dry hard, just eventually crumble. I think you would be better to use a salt dough that you bake. If you search for ‘salt dough’ I think I have something that will suit you. πŸ™‚

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  3. Susan says

    December 22, 2016 at 12:20 pm

    I have tried all of your projects with my granddaughter.

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    • Kate says

      December 23, 2016 at 9:40 pm

      Oh Susan, you’re a star!!! Thank you so much for your love and support. How old is your granddaughter? πŸ™‚

      Reply
    • Tiffany says

      April 24, 2020 at 10:58 pm

      Can we use flour instead of corn starch

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      • Kate says

        April 30, 2020 at 10:05 am

        Yes. Corn flour and corn starch are the same. Different names for the same product.

        Reply
  4. Stacey says

    January 21, 2017 at 5:43 am

    I’m a Head Start Preschool Teacher in Ohio. We just started a dinosaur study. Where do you find gel coloring?

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    • Kate says

      January 21, 2017 at 8:38 am

      Hi Stacey. I got mine from a local bakery store, but they have lots of them on Amazon. Here is the one I used and it has the brown coloring inside. – http://amzn.to/2jHXe3V

      Reply
  5. Gina says

    February 12, 2017 at 2:44 pm

    Hi, this sounds like a great dough but could you please advise on how long it lasts? I’m suspecting quite a while in airtight storage but a guide would be very helpful.
    Thanks

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    • Kate says

      February 12, 2017 at 8:42 pm

      Hi Gina! Lovely to hear from you. This playdough dries out as you play with it, but that can be fixed with adding a small amount more of conditioner. It seems to restore it quite well. I’d wrap it in cling film and store in an air tight container when it’s not played with. It would really last quite awhile, especially if you just added a bit more conditioner to the mix if it dried out. Hope that helps you Gina. πŸ™‚

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  6. Ms m says

    April 7, 2017 at 8:02 am

    This is exactly what I needed today. My little one and I have been stuck at home for a number of days – this really cheered him up and helped cabin fever. So easy too.

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    • Kate says

      April 10, 2017 at 9:51 pm

      YAY! That’s such wonderful news Megan. Thanks for sharing. πŸ™‚

      Reply

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