Fall Apple Scented Playdough Recipe

Young kids not only love playing with play dough, but it is great for strengthening hand muscles, sensory activity, and exploring creativity too. This apple playdough is a quick and easy-to-make autumn playdough to enjoy in September. Use this fall playdough recipe with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. Whether you use this apple playdoh as part of an apple theme or hands-on apple activities – this is sure to delight the senses!

Apple Playdough

This cinnamon playdough will delight the senses as kids work on motor skills and building hand muscles with an apple activity for kids. Use this fall playdough recipe in September when we are incorporating all things apple. This apple playdough recipe is such a fun project to make apples, apple pies, letters, numbers, and more. Try this apple activity for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, grade 1, and more! Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love incorporating this activity into you plans.

Apple playdough recipe

To whip up a batch of this playdough apple recipe yoou will need a few simple materials:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 Tablespoons cream of tartar
• 1 cup of water
• 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
• green and red food coloring
• Apple scented oil (optional)
• 1 tsp of Cinnamon spice (optional)

Apple playdoh

Add water and vegetable oil to a medium saucepan. Heat over medium heat until it starts to boil. Now remove from the stove top and add the flour, salt, creatm of tartar to the hot water and stir continuously until a stiff ball of dough forms.

Remove the play doh from the pot and place on your work space. Allow the playdough mixture to cool for 5 minutes. Now knead the dough until it is soft and pliable (about 3-4 minutes).

Apple scented playdough

Add in food coloring. We seperated our dough into 3 parts. I colored one part red, one part green, and left one part cream color.

Autumn playdough

Add enough food coloring to get the color you are looking for. You can make red delicious apples, granny smith green apples, golden delicious yellow apples, or mixed color Jazz apples too.

Cinnamon Playdough

Now I encouraged my kids to form the dough into an apple shape. Not only is kneading and rolling the playdoh good for strengthening hand muscles and getting some important sensory and tactile play, but it is great for building confidence and having fun with an apple theme activity too.

Fall Activities for Preschoolers

Roll or pat the cream colored dough and make the inside of the apple’s creamy flesh with a border of the red around it. It’s like you’ve cut the apple in half.

Fall playdough recipe

Now add black beans or black beads to make the apple seeds. You could easily turn this into a hands-on apple activity to help kids practice counting. Tell the children a number and have them put the correct number of black seeds in the apple. Aren’t the too cute!?

Apple Activities for toddlers

WE also made just a plain green apple and used buttons to decorate our apple. THis was lots of fun for my youngest learners and could also be used for an apple counting activity.  You could also do buttons of different colors to make addition equations with Kindergaten and first graders. Like 2 blue buttons plus 3 white buttons equals 5 buttons altogether.

Fall activity for toddlers

There are so mnay fun, creative ways to play with and decorate this apple activity using our quick and easy playdough recipe for kids!

Apple activities

You can also must make a ball, add a twig and leaft to creat a really simple, but cute apple.

EASY apple playdough recipe is a fun playdoh to use with an apple theme or hands-on activities for September that will delight the senses!

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