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Valentine’s Day Jello Playdough and Free Printable Mat

Do you love celebrating holiday’s with your children? I surely do!! This post is the first of many Valentine’s Day projects we will do this year. Buddy decided earlier this week that he wanted to make some new playdough to replace the old stuff we had just recently thrown away. I thought it would be a perfect idea and when he asked for it to be red I knew we were on our way to a Valentine’s Day activity. That is how our Valentine’s Day Jello Playdough and Free Printable Mat play session came about.

Since we were doing red playdough I wanted it to smell yummy as well and decided to try out a recipe using Jello. I had a strawberry jello package in the cupboard so we were on a roll! I found this recipe at PlayDough Recipe.com. It was simple to make and smells amazing. The only change we made to the recipe was to add glitter. Everything is better with a little bit of sparkle 🙂 Keep reading after the recipe for a free printable mat to practice counting skills while playing with your playdough.

Jello Playdough Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
2 tablespoons of cream of tartar
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 cup of warm water
Three ounces of jello – any flavor you wish
Silver and Gold glitter (this is my addition)

Directions:

Combine ingredients.
Cook over medium heat until it thickens.

Knead until cool enough to touch.

We have a bunch of tools to use with our playdough and I got out some specific Valentine’s day cookie cutters for Buddy to play with.

Buddy is in Pre-K now and has been working on his numbers so I created a fun Valentine’s Day themed printable playdough mat. We play with playdough a lot at our house so I need to go out and pick up some page protectors to make the mats last longer. You could also laminate the pages.