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How to make some totally gorgeously coloured natural dyes for play dough using plants and kitchen cupboard ingredients! Add these natural dyes to my best ever, no-cook, zero waste play dough recipe for a brilliantly, all natural play experience for your little ones!
First, make my best ever, 4 minute play dough recipe! I made three batches of this to create these 7 different natural dyes for play dough. Obviously you would choose which dyes to make each time you create a batch and just try one at a time to make it a little easier, as dividing it up before adding colour was a little complicated. Next, choose which dyes you want to make using my photo to see the colours each material creates.
I just love how subtle yet beautiful each shade is! Avocado stones create a beautifully peachy shade. Take stones from the middle of avocados, rinse and place into a pan.
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Cover them with water so that they are only just immersed then simmer gently for around 20 minutes or until the water has changed colour. It will look orange when ready. Have all of the dry ingredients ready in a bowl and then use 1 cup of this dyed water as the final part of the recipe. Mix and knead when cool enough. It should be super soft and beautifully peachy! Just add a small handful to a pan and just about cover them with water, then simply simmer until the water has turned a deep pink.
Strain off the blueberries and use this water as the final step in my no-cook recipe. To make this lovely natural shade of brown you can use either coffee, strained tea or cocoa powder although cocoa can also be used to make this absolutely wonderful chocolate play dough recipe instead, so maybe save it for that! To create this amazingly vibrant yellow colour you only need a very small amount of turmeric powder.
Be warned, it is an extremely effective dye, often used in cooking, so make sure your children play with this on a tray or tablecloth! I found it fine once mixed into the dough and cooled but while making it I did need to be extra careful especially on my new white counter tops in the kitchen! As with the turmeric powder, this colour is very easy to create.
Natural Dyes for Play Dough
Simply add it to the boiling water using teaspsoons. You can see a full post and video about creating matcha green tea play dough here that I posted just recently! I just LOVE this when paired with natural loose parts materials, such as pine cones, pebbles and leaves! This dye smells the strongest but also makes THE most amazing shade of purple! Simply shred a large handful of red cabbage two handfuls if you want to also create the blue colour too.
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Place it in a pan and just cover with water, then simmer on a low heat for about 20 minutes. I love it! As you can see, it will be a very rich purple and instantly adds amazing colour to the dry ingredients. Use 1 cup as directed in the recipe. Now, the make this blue dye was a little more complicated and took me a few attempts using trial and error! I had already made red cabbage water turn from purple to blue in this amazing colour changing experiment I did with the kids a couple of years back.
So I knew how to change the purple magically from purple to blue BUT because of the other ingredients in the play dough recipe, a new chemical reaction took place and the whole dough turned to mousse consistency! Fun, but definitely not what I was trying to create. Next, take one cup of the purple cabbage water and add 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda baking soda.