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Silky Smooth Homemade Play Dough

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This Silky Smooth Homemade Play Dough is soft and fun to make!

A hand holding stretchy pink play dough with the words "Homemade Silky Stretchy Play Dough" displayed above.

Hello! I am so excited for this awesome opportunity to be guest posting! And I am equally as thrilled to be sharing one of my all time favorite play dough recipes with you!
 This Homemade Play Dough recipe is SO much fun! It is stretchy and SUPER silky smooth! I have never met a kid who does not LOVE this play dough! I even had a great time playing with this!!
This is such a fun change up to the usual play dough recipes. Plus- it smells GREAT and makes your hands nice and smooth!!
Most play dough recipes are stinky and make your hands either chalky, powdery, or oily and sticky!
So, needless to say I love the idea of having smooth, delicious smelling hands after playing play dough.

With only 3 ingredients (4 if you choose to use glitter) it is easy enough for any age child in your family to participate!

Other slime recipes you might like:

Candy Corn Slime

Crunchy Slime

Cotton Candy Slime

Glitter Slime

Silky Smooth Play Dough

  • 1 cup Conditioner (The cheaper the better! I think the VO5 that I bought was $0.75...score!)
  • 2 cups Cornstarch
  • Food Coloring (My conditioner was pink- so I used 3-4 drops of pink food coloring to make it a little more vibrant.)
  • Glitter (Optional)


    Pouring conditioner into a pot to make homemade play dough.Homemade Play Dough Directions:
  • Combine  cornstarch and conditioner in a large bowl
  • Add food coloring and glitter (I chose not to use glitter this time, I wanted mine super smooth!)
  • Mix well
  • Keep mixing until ingredients are well blended.
  • Knead with your hands until you have a smooth consistency.
  • After about 1-2 minutes of mixing, the ingredients will combine to make the most silky smooth play dough imaginable!!!!

Homemade play dough in pink with ingredients in the background.

Thank you Alexandra for guest posting today! Make sure and check out her blog at: momsbagoftricks.com

Homemade Play Dough ingredients: cornstarch and hair conditioner.

Want Scented Playdoh?

If you used a scented Conditioner like VO5 Strawberry that we used for the one below, then you have a really fun Super Soft Playdoh that smells like Strawberry!

A star-shaped mold pressed into pink scented homemade play dough.


A hand squeezing a green, stretchy homemade play dough. A hand squeezing and stretching homemade play dough against a plain background.

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slime and Saint Patrick's Day

A close up of slitter slime

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Stretching homemade play dough made with conditioner for a silky smooth texture.

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