Peppermint Christmas Playdough
Easy to make Christmas Playdough with a peppermint scent is the perfect holiday activity for kids of all ages! Soft, no-cook playdough that can be turned into candy canes and so much more. Make a batch today to play with during the holidays and keep this easy recipe for playdough on hand for anytime!
There’s nothing like a fun, themed playdough for the kids! This quick and easy Peppermint Christmas no cook playdough recipe requires no cooking and comes together in about 5 minutes.
Plus, it’s peppermint scent fills your house! You can easily make a couple of batches of this simple playdough recipe like we did, one red and one white, to make candy canes.
Or make green, blue, yellow and more to make Christmas trees, stars, snowman and more.
Pair it with our fun Christmas Playdough Mats and some gingerbread playdough to provide even more entertainment for the kids while you get ready for Christmas!
Supplies Needed
- All-purpose flour – If you have whole wheat, that will work too and give the playdough a different texture.
- Salt – Regular table salt works best for this homemade playdough recipe.
- Cream of tartar – This will give you a strong dough while allowing it to become nice and stretchy.
- Vegetable oil – Your playdough will be a little less sticky by adding this.
- Water – This needs to be boiling.
- Peppermint extract – You can also use peppermint essential oils.
- Red food coloring – The gel food coloring works best vibrant color.
How to Make Homemade Play Dough
- In a large heat-safe mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.
- Pour the oil, water, peppermint into the flour mixture. If you’re making the dough red, you can add a few drops of the food coloring.
- Using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, mix all the ingredients until it comes together.
- Once the dough is cool enough to touch, turn out on your work surface and knead it until it’s smooth.
Helpful Tools
FAQS
If you want to make it with both white and red, you will need to make two batches of the dough and leave out the food coloring in one of the batches.
Yes, I will warn you this might be a little messier. You will make the whole batch without the food coloring, then remove half the dough. Next, you will stir the red food coloring into the second half of the dough. When you knead the dough, your hands might get a little red food coloring on them. I find spraying my hands with Lysol helps remove the food coloring from my skin.
You can store it in an airtight container right at room temperature.
In this recipe, we recommend peppermint extract but you may use a few drops of peppermint essential oils if you have those on hand.
I love to use gel food coloring; it gives a tremendous vibrant color without adding too much liquid.
Perfect for Candy Canes
We had fun making different candy canes with our batches of white and red playdough.
You can either make ropes out of your playdough and roll them together to make a candy cane or combine the red and white into a ball, roll out with a rolling pin and then cut with a cookie cutter to make a marbled looking candy cane.
We love making all kinds of different colors to make Christmas trees, stars and more out of our Peppermint scented playdough at Christmas.
The sky is the limit on your creativity. The kids love making batches of it!
Make a batch or two of this festive play dough recipe to enjoy with your family throughout the holiday season. Switch up the colors to make all of the Christmas shapes you can think of, or keep it simple with red and white. There is a lot of Christmas fun to be had with this Peppermint Playdough recipe!
MORE CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS
- Pair your Peppermint Playdough with these fun Christmas Playdough Mats!
- With only two ingredients, these Cinnamon Ornaments are a fun craft activity for Christmas with the kids.
- Just print this easy Santa Christmas Countdown and put on a cotton ball for each day until Christmas Eve! Cute, simple and easy!
- This adorable Handprint Santa Claus craft is a great activity for little hands during the holidays and they are so precious!
- Try our Salt Dough Recipe for a great handmade ornament you can keep for years to come!
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Peppermint Christmas Playdough
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup salt
- 1 Tablespoon cream of tartar
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2-3 teaspoons peppermint extract
- red food coloring Gel will be most vibrant
Instructions
- In a large, heat-safe mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and cream of tartar.
- Pour the boiling oil, water and peppermint into the flour mixture. If you're making the dough red, you can add a few drops of the food coloring.
- Using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, mix all the ingredients until it comes together.
- Once the dough is cool enough to touch, turn out on your work surface and knead it until it's smooth.
Notes
You can store it in an airtight container right at room temperature. Can I use peppermint oil instead of peppermint extract?
You may use a few drops of peppermint essential oils if you have those on hand. How do you get that bright red color?
I love to use gel food coloring; it gives a tremendous vibrant color without adding too much liquid.
This was our first time making playdough. So fun! Thanks for sharing.
Oh wow, this looks so delicious. My family is going to devour it!
This was such a hit! Thank you for Love all the ingredients, can’t wait to try this!