Halloween Playdough Recipes

It’s been a long time since I’ve made homemade playdough. Now that my daughter is a tween she’s much more into slime and other dramatic sensory experiences, but every now and they she still wants to make and play with playdough, too.

I was thinking about the Halloween playdough I made for her many, many years ago, and how fun and easy it is to make themed playdough for different holidays and seasons.

I made an orange one using Kool-Aid and pumpkin pie spice, and a black one with black food coloring and glitter.

Of course you can go even more fall and do a pumpkin pie playdough with actual pumpkin in it (like this one from Wunder Mom) but I would definitely want to refrigerate that one when not in use, and then it wouldn’t be as fun to play with when it was cold.

Do you make seasonal or holiday-themed playdough? I’d love to hear about it!

Check out these Halloween Activity Books we found on Amazon to keep the kids busy this Halloween season. The perfect grab and go books for outings, car trips and lazy afternoons.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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