How to make gingerbread dough for kids?

Tip the flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices into a large bowl. Add the warm syrup mixture and the egg, stir everything together, then gently knead in the bowl until smooth and streak-free. The dough will firm up once cooled. Wrap in cling film and chill for at least 30 mins.

How to make gingerbread man playdough?

No cook gingerbread play dough 2 cups plain flour (all purpose) 1/2 cup salt. 2 tablespoons oil. 2 tablespoons cream of tartar. (up to) 1.5 cups of cold water (added gradually until it is right) 1 tablespoon ground ginger. 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon. Dec 1, 2020

How to make playdough with toddlers?

2 cups water 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 2 tbs cooking oil 4 tsp cream of tartar Food coloring (optional) Add food coloring to water it you wish to color the dough. Mix and heat until ingredients form a ball. Knead until smooth and store in airtight container.

How to make soft dough for kids?

How to make playdough 8 tbsp plain flour. 2 tbsp table salt. 60ml warm water. food colouring. 1 tbsp vegetable oil. Jan 31, 2017

What is gingerbread dough made of?

For making the gingerbread house dough, you will need the following ingredients: flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, light brown sugar, molasses, an egg and vanilla extract .

How to make stretchy dough for kids?

2 cups water. 2 Tbsp oil. 1 squirt of dish soap. 1 Tbsp cream of tartar. 2 cups flour. 1 cup salt. Gel food coloring. Apr 19, 2016

Gingerbread Playdough Recipe & Gingerbread Baby Activities for Kids

This is the 3rd book in our 12 Books of Christmas series:

Many, many years ago, I read Gingerbread Baby to my first class…a little-bitty group of kindergartners in a small private school…and had the best time coming up with activities to do with this fun book by Jan Brett. I think I had several different centers with a variety of ideas, but the one that sticks out the most was when we actually made gingerbread cookies.

And those little Gingerbread Baby cookies jumped right out of the oven and ran away.

We searched the whole school for them and finally found them back in our room. (Maybe even in our gingerbread house? It’s been 13 years, so I can’t quite remember details!) I will never forget the imagination and awe of those kiddos, so when my girls were early elementary and preschool-aged, I did the same thing. You can see our screaming, surprising Gingerbread Man hunt here.

This year when we read Gingerbread Baby, I wasn’t quite up for chasing a cookie escaping from the oven. The girls were on to my sneaky trick anyway. 🙂

So, we made some amazing Gingerbread Playdough instead. I love to make homemade playdough, and when you have the right recipe, it’s just so easy. We borrowed and adapted the Gingerbread playdough recipe from The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle.

(Printable Gingerbread Playdough recipe at the end of the post)

Ingredients:

1 C. flour
1/2 C. salt
2 t. cream of tartar
2 t. ground ginger
1 T. ground cinnamon
1 t. ground cloves
1 t. ground nutmeg
2 T oil (vegetable works well, but since we don’t use it in our house, we subbed coconut oil)
1 cup water

When I’m cooking with the girls, I let them measure, and we prep our ingredients as we go. It makes a few more dishes, but they help with clean-up…so it’s okay! (If I’m just making playdough myself, I add all the dry ingredients into the pot first.)

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