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An Easy Lavender Playdough Recipe

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Do you want to know how to make Lavender playdough? Then read below. This playdough recipe is perfect, create a soothing, calming lavender play dough.

Ingredients for the lavender play dough:

  • 1 cup of flour
  • 1 cup of water
  • 1/2 cup of salt
  • 1 – 2 tbsp of oil
  • 2 tsp of creme of tartar
  • dried or fresh lavender
  • lavender essential oil – optional

Method:

  1. Pop all the ingredients into a saucepan and gently heat
  2. The ingredients will start to join together
  3. Continue to keep mixing, it will go extremely sticky keep mixing until it forms a big ball
  4. Leave it to cool then knead for a few minutes
  5. The kneading part is very important to make it soft
  6. Leave the children push the dried or fresh lavender into the play dough

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