This is one of my very favorite homemade glitter playdough recipes because it combines the deep rich galaxy colors with sparkles and stars making it galaxy playdough! Kids of all ages will love making and playing with this soft sparkly DIY playdough recipe. Use it at home or in the classroom along with lessons about colors, shapes or astronomy.
Galaxy Playdough Recipe for Kids
This Galaxy Playdough is simple to make. Honestly, the glitter playdough recipe is almost as fun to make as it is to play with it.
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Paired with star cookie cutters, rolling pins, and silver pipe cleaners, it will keep little hands busy for hours!
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Ingredients Needed To Make Galaxy Play-Doh
For Each Play Dough Color, You Will Need
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 TSBP vegetable oil
- 1 TSP Cream of Tartar
- Purple, turquoise, and pink food coloring
- Pink, turquoise, and silver glitter
- Silver glitter stars
Note: The recipe above makes 1 batch of playdough. To make Galaxy Playdough, you will need to make 3 batches (pink, purple, and turquoise).
Tip: We found it easier to make 3 different batches in rather than one big batch to break up as it gets very dense.
Directions to Make Glitter Playdough Recipe
Step 1
- Stir all of the ingredients (except the glitter) together in a saucepan.
- Cook over medium heat until the playdough mixture thickens and clumps together.
- Dump the playdough onto the counter and cool.
Step 2
After the playdough is cool to the touch, combine all 3 colors together. Knead gently to create a beautiful, marbled effect.
Note: It may take you a few minutes to get the desire effect you’re looking for, but be careful about over-mixing by twisting right off the bat or you will end up with a single color.
Step 3
Pour the glitter onto the playdough and gently mix it in. This is my favorite part! I love glitter of all types.
Tip: To avoid a mess you can do this part over a paper plate or like a cookie sheet so you can dump the excess glitter in the trash instead of it sticking to every surface for all eternity.
Finished Galaxy Glitter Playdough REcipe
- Kids can use small cookie cutters to cut star shapes from the playdough.
- You can also use circle cookie cutters to make moons! Take a plastic knife and cut the moon in half to make a half moon or cut a sliver off to make a crescent moon.
- I found this really cute set of space cookie cutters on Amazon!
Playing with Galaxy Play dough
- Adding silver pipe cleaners will turn those stars into shooting stars! You could also add gold, pink, blue, or purple to make it a little extra.
- If you leave them out you can have hardened little stars.
- Or take it a step further and poke a hole in the tip and let it harden and you can tie a string through it and you have beautiful ornaments or decor to hang in your room!
Kids love this fun playdough!
Giving the Gift of Playdough
I think this playdough, combined with small space toys and books, would make an adorable birthday present for curious kids. Package the homemade playdough in an airtight container for storage with a note to play with it within the next week.
Beautifully colorful and easy to make - this galaxy playdough is sure to delight!
Materials
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 TSBP vegetable oil
- 1 TSP Cream of Tartar
- Purple, turquoise, and pink food coloring
- Pink, turquoise, and silver glitter
- Silver glitter stars
Instructions
- Mix flour, water, salt, vegetable oil, and cream of tartar together in a saucepan.
- Cook until smooth
- Remove from heat, and divide into three separate bowls.
- Add food coloring to each bowl and mix with silicone spatula. Add one drop at a time - it will go a long way!
- Cover, and let playdough cool.
- Place all three lumps of playdough onto a cookie sheet - you'll thank me later, it saves mess!
- Let your children add glitter to the dough and mix to make a marbled effect. Have them be careful not to over mix.
- Roll the dough out flat on the cookie sheet.
- Let your children cut out fun shapes with cookie cutters.
- Decorate with pipe cleaners or anything else you like!
- Allow to dry and harden!
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More Galaxy Fun from Kids Activities Blog
- Take a bite out of the galaxy (literally!) with these vibrant galaxy sugar cookies.
- If your child loves to play with slime, they’ll love thisgalaxy slime recipe!
- Or make this super cool DIY galaxy nightlightwith them.
- Don’t forget to make some fun outer space playdough as well!
- Galaxy In a Bottle is one of my other favorite glitter crafts!
- Don’t miss out on these fun galaxy crafts!
Leave a comment: What planet in the solar system is your child the most intrigued by?
