This Coffee Playdough recipe is the perfect mud play dough for play inside no matter the weather. Coffee playdough acts just like real mud in its squishiness and ooey-ness, but unlike mud it smells amazing! Coffee homemade playdough is easy to make with a few simple ingredients and great for toddlers, preschoolers and older kids love to play with this sensory toy.
Mud Play Dough – Brown Playdough Recipe
Did you know there is an International Mud Day? Across the globe, countries celebrate International Mud Day on June 29. Whether you are celebrating Mud Day, need a fun indoor activity or just want a new playdough recipe, we have the solution for you today!
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Indoor mud play is a new concept for my family, but we thought it might be the perfect thing since sometimes it is too hot to go outside in Texas.
Coffee Play Dough Recipe
We made this brown playdough with coffee grounds that looks just like mud and smells heavenly!
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Ingredients Needed For Coffee PlayDough Recipe
- 2 Cups of Flour
- 1/2 Cup of Coffee Grounds
- 1 Tablespoon of Instant Coffee (when it wasn’t dark enough)
- 1 Cup of Salt
- 2 Teaspoons of Cream of Tartar (she called for more, but this stuff is hard to find, so I cut the amount by a third).
- 1 Cup of very hot water
- 2 Tablespoons of oil
- Glycerin Drops or Clear Glycerin Soap
How To Make Mud-Like Coffee Playdough
Step 1
If you are not using glycerin drops, shave a small amount of glycerin soap base and heat until it is melted. Let it cool to warm before adding.
Step 2
Mix flour, cream of tartar, salt, instant coffee, and coffee grounds together in one bowl.
Step 3
Add the hot water, the glycerin, and oil in.
Step 4
Mix well until you get a pasty consistency.
Step 5
Put in a container and add dinosaurs and other toys! Enjoy!
Glycerin Drops Vs. Glycerin Soap
Normally when we make this type of playdough, we use glycerin drops. We didn’t have any glycerin drops on hand, but I shaved a tiny piece off of a bar of glycerin soap and it worked well. Glycerin Soap bars are the clear or see-through kind. A little bit goes a long way.
How To Store Your Mud Coffee Playdough
The oil should keep your mud coffee playdough moist. However, you will probably want to keep this in an air tight container.
Not only will it help keep it wet and malleable, but it will help keep other stuff out like lint or hair and the such.
Why We Were So Excited To Learn How To Make Mud
Making mud playdough sounds silly, but it’s so much fun. And my kids had a blast with it. Not to mention it smells good. But the real reason I learned how to make mud was for the imaginative play. If you see above, you see that we used dinosaurs to play in our mud playdough. Kids can stomp around and pretend to be dinosaurs in the mud. But there are other ways to play with mud playdough as well:
- Farm– Farm animals, fences, etc
- Bugs– Creepy crawly bugs going through the mud
- Dishes– Uses plastic toy dishes to make mud pies
There are so many different ways to play with this mud playdough that doubles as a sensory activity and as an imaginative play activity.
Play with this fun pretend mud inside your house without the mess! This easy to make mud-like coffee playdough is so fun.
Materials
- 2 Cups of Flour
- 1/2 Cup of Coffee Grounds
- 1 Tablespoon of Instant Coffee (when it wasn’t dark enough)
- 1 Cup of Salt
- 2 Teaspoons of Cream of Tartar (she called for more, but this stuff is hard to find, so I cut the amount by a third).
- 1 Cup of very hot water
- 2 Tablespoons of oil
- Glycerin Drops or Clear Glycerin Soap
Instructions
If you are not using glycerin drops, shave a small amount of glycerin soap base and heat until it is melted. Let it cool to warm before adding.
Mix flour, cream of tartar, salt, instant coffee, and coffee grounds together in one bowl.
Add the hot water, the glycerin, and oil in.
Mix well until you get a pasty consistency.
Put in a container and add dinosaurs and other toys! Enjoy!
Notes
The oil should keep your mud coffee playdough moist. However, you will probably want to keep this in an air tight container. Not only will it help keep it wet and malleable, but it will help keep other stuff out like lint or hair and the such.
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Have you made this coffee playdough yet? Let us know in the comments, we’d love to hear from you!
