Are you looking for a fall playdough recipe? This fall-scented cooked playdough recipe is a variation on our best playdough recipe, and allows you to whip up perfect homemade fall playdough in just a few minutes!
Kids will love that they were able to help make play dough with their own hands, and adding the scents of the season helps bring on the excitement for the fall season. Get a free recipe card at the bottom of the post.
If you have older children that won’t put the dough in their mouth then create the recipe using essential oils. For a younger child who is still putting things in their mouth, I suggest you use spices instead! Then it is taste safe.
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Fall Play Dough Recipes Using Spices
We have 3 Fall recipes for you to try that include spices and no essential oils.
Apple Spice Play Dough
- 1.5 TBSP Cooking Oil (This can be any oil. I use All Purpose Oil or Canola Oil)
- 1 TBSP Cream of Tartar
- 1 Cup of flour
- 1/4 cup of salt
- Red Food Gel coloring (If you don’t add enough red food coloring it will turn pink instead.)
- 1 Cup of water
- 1 tsp apple pie spice mix
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
Mix the dry ingredients together and mix the water with the food coloring. Then put everything together in a pot over medium heat. When the dough starts to form you can turn off the heat. Once it’s cool start kneading it together.
Pumpkin Pie Play Dough
- 1.5 TBSP Cooking Oil
- 1 TBSP Cream of Tartar
- 1 Cup of flour
- 1/4 cup of salt
- Orange Food Gel coloring
- 1 Cup of water
- 1-2 tsp pumpkin pie spice mix
Mix the dry ingredients together and mix the water with the food coloring. Then put everything together in a pot over medium heat. When the dough starts to form you can turn off the heat. Once it’s cool start kneading it together.
Cinnamon Play Dough
- 1.5 TBSP Cooking Oil
- 1 TBSP Cream of Tartar
- 1 Cup of flour
- 1/4 cup of salt
- Brown Food Gel coloring
- 1 Cup of water
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon spice
Mix the dry ingredients together and mix the water with the food coloring. Then put everything together in a pot over medium heat. When the dough starts to form you can turn off the heat. Once it’s cool start kneading it together.
The base of all of our play dough recipes is below:
- 1.5 TBSP Cooking Oil
- 1 TBSP Cream of Tartar
- 1 Cup of flour
- 1/4 cup of salt
- Food coloring
- 1 Cup of water
Fall-Scented Play Dough Recipe Using Essential Oils
- 1 TBSP Cream of Tartar
- 1 TBSP oil
- 1 cup Flour
- 1/4 cup salt
- Food Gel coloring
- 1 cup boiling water
- Fall essential oils
- Plastic sealable baggies
I love adding essential oils to play dough because it makes the dough smell so GOOD! You can either add one scent to your entire batch of dough, or use a different scent for each color.
HOW TO MAKE THE PLAYDOUGH
Visit our playdough recipe post for extended directions.
Mix the dry ingredients and then the wet ingredients in a pot on the stove.
Heat the dough on medium until a large dough ball forms and the dough is no longer sticky.
Allow the cooked play dough to cool.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to color the play dough into multiple colors after you cook it.
(We’ve already shown you how to make play dough by mixing the colors during the cooking process.)
Divide the dough into however many colors you want to make. We made green, orange, and yellow for fall.
Place each section of dough into a sealable plastic bag.
Add a squirt of color to each bag along with 10 drops of your oil of choice.
Seal the bags and knead them to mix the colors.
When the colors are mixed, remove the dough and let the kids have fun! I love using a cooked playdough recipe vs a No Cook Playdough Recipe because it ends up being a lot softer, smoother, and lasts so much longer.
Use fall items to play with the cooked playdough, like acorns, pine cones, leaves, and mini pumpkins! You can also use fall cookie cutters along with this dough, such as turkeys, pumpkins, acorns, or squirrels.
How to store the play dough
The best thing about the homemade fall-scented play-doh recipe is that it lasts for quite some time! You can store it in a sealed plastic container for several weeks before it goes bad. You can also store the dough in the refrigerator to extend its life even further.
However, storing the dough in the refrigerator tends to make it sticky. You can solve this issue by adding a bit of flour during play.
Place the play dough in a closed container or zip bag in the refrigerator.
Why do we need to use Cream of Tartar?
Cream of tartar acts as a preservative and also makes the play dough a bit stretchier. You can use less cream of tartar if you like. Sometimes we use 1 TBSP, sometimes we use 2 TBSP
Check out our Koolaid Play Dough recipe too!
Fall Scented Playdough
Ingredients
- 2 TBSP Cream of Tartar
- 1 TBSP oil
- 1 cup Flour
- 1/4 cup salt
- Food Gel Coloring
- 1 cup boiling water
- Apple Pie Spice, Pumpkin Pie Spice
- Plastic sealable baggies
Instructions
- Mix the dry ingredients together.
- In another dish mix the wet ingredients together.
- Then add both the dry ingredients and wet ingredients to a pot on the stove.
- Heat the dough on medium until a dough ball forms and the dough is no longer sticky.
- Allow the cooked play dough to cool.
- Knead the dough
- Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator
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