Quicksand Play Dough

July 18, 2020
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Is it sand, or is it play dough?  You decide!
This amazing sensory material actually acts as both!  Read on to see how you can easily make quicksand play dough at home.
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This homemade play dough is just too fun!  It is a lot like wonder dough, only it changes consistencies even faster and has the added texture of sand.  Are you ready for the recipe?

Quicksand Play Dough Recipe

Method
  • Begin by mixing roughly equal amounts of corn starch and play sand in a large bin or play container.  
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  • Slowly begin to add washable paint and mix, slowly adding more paint and mixing until the desired consistency is reached. 
  • The ingredients will be very sticky at first, but that's ok.  Keep mixing!
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  • Once the ingredients are combined finish kneading the dough with clean, dry hands.
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  • Add the tiniest amount of water to the dough as you knead and continue to mix.
  • That's it! After a bit of mixing and kneading you will be left with super fun quicksand play dough!

Quicksand Play

This play dough is mold-able, holding it's shape while kids play, but as soon as hands are still it turns to OOZE!
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Leave the sand to sit, and it will melt into a doughy puddle.  Pick it up to play, and you have a mold-able dough.
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Seriously, so cool!  Rosie and Jewel had a blast and found all sorts of ways to play with their magical, melting sand.  
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MORE SAND RECIPES FOR KIDS

A Few Tips: 
  • You can buy play sand in large quantities at Home Depot for just a few dollars.  You can also get it online here
  • Corn starch can be found in the baking aisle of most major stores or online here.
  • We used light brown paint to mix our play dough so that it would be a sand-like color.  You could alternatively use yellow or even white paint.  
  • Each time that you try this recipe it will come out just a little bit different.  We recently made quicksand again using yellow paint, and we also used more of it.  The results were just too fun!
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  • Explore the ingredients.  Begin with a small amount of paint, and slowly add more as kids play!  This will allow you to explore a variety of consistencies.  Happy playing!

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Crystal Underwood is the writer and creator of Growing A Jeweled Rose. She has worked extensively with children and strongly believes in the importance of play at the core of early learning. She is passionate about the early years and believes that childhood should be a truly magical time in life. For all the best kids activities connect with Growing a Jeweled Rose below!