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How To Make Shaving Cream Playdough

July 25, 2021

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how to make shaving cream playdough

You’ve no doubt already discovered by now that there are lots of different ways to make playdough. This shaving cream playdough recipe uses just two ingredients (3 if you include the food colouring) and creates more of a moon dough rather than a traditional playdough

It’s fun to make and play with and very simple to do, this is definitely an activity to get your kids involved with, the making of the dough is seriously part of the fun!

As mentioned before, you really only need two ingredients to start playing around with this dough recipe – shaving cream/foam and cornflour/cornstarch.

cornstarch and shaving cream playdough

Of course, you’ll probably want to add a bit of colour to your playdough, so technically you might want three ingredients – shaving cream, cornflour and food colouring.

how to make playdough with shaving cream and flour

Then it’s as simple as combining your ingredients!

The ratio should be roughly 1:2 shaving cream:cornflour, so, if you use 1 cup of shaving cream you’ll need about 2 cups of cornflour.

adding cornflour to shaving cream

Don’t forget a few drops of food colouring to make it fun – be prepared for coloured fingers though!

Adding food colouring to shaving cream dough

Use a spoon, or your hands, to mix it all together. If it’s too dry and crumbly add more shaving cream, if it’s too wet add more cornflour.

shaving cream and cornstarch playdough

Once you get the consistency right (or almost right) tip it out onto a non stick surface – I like to use a large silicone baking mat.

playdough with shaving cream

Then get those little fingers in there and knead and mix until you’ve formed nice, playable dough.

playing with shaving cream playdough
shaving cream playdough

Shaving Cream Playdough Recipe

Shaving Cream Playdough

Ingredients

  • 1 cup shaving cream
  • 2 cups cornflour
  • Few drops of food colouring

Instructions

  • Combine ingredients mix and knead until smooth dough forms.
  • Mix and knead until smooth dough forms.

Perfect for a rainy day activity, you and your kids will love experimenting with this shaving cream playdough.

It’s a great sensory activity as the texture of the dough changes as you add more shaving cream/corn flour – keep going until you’ve achieved a texture you like!

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