How to make SUPER SOFT Calming Play dough recipe at home!

This play dough recipe is fun and easy and you likely have all of the ingredients in your home!

My son, Grayson, is diagnosed with ASD and ADHD. He is on medication most of the time, however, we struggle with his weight due to his medication. On days that I decide to NOT give him his medication, we look for alternatives to calm him down. One of our methods is creative play that helps him CALM down – check out how to make a calming play dough at home!

I began researching how to make play dough a while back. In my mind, I knew I wanted to add some CBD oil + essential oil to the mixture… so I researched a LOT of recipes. What I came up for my recipe is basically a mash-up of everything I found.

Most recipes called for 2 tbsp of some type of oil. The CBD oil that we have, Nature’s Ultra, is very oily in itself. Most all of the CBD oil I’ve been in contact with has been very “oily”.

Some of you may be thinking, DUH… IT’S OIL.

Well, it has a very thick oil consistency instead of a thin oily consistency. If that even makes sense. Anyways, I felt like if I added it IN ADDITION to the amount of oil that was called for in many recipes, that it would be entirely too much.

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup salt
2 TBSP cream of tartar
4 syringes full of CBD oil. ***Measure it into a tablespoon. Fill the rest of the tablespoon with coconut oil. CBD oil usually comes with a dropper in the top – so THOSE syringes are what I’m talking about.
1 tbsp coconut oil +++ filling up the rest of the TBSP when you measure out the CBD oil
10 drops of lavender oil
1 cup of boiling water

Directions for making this play dough recipe:

Start boiling a small pot of water. A saucepan is large enough – you only need 1 cup total!
Mix the flour, salt, and cream of tartar in a bowl.
Grab your TBSP measure and add 4 dropper syringes of your CBD oil. BEFORE YOU POUR IT INTO THE BOWL, fill the rest of the TBSP up with coconut oil. Pour it into the bowl.
- DON’T HAVE CBD OIL?? No problem! Just do 2 tbsp of coconut oil instead! I’m sure olive oil or vegetable oil would work as well, I have not tried that, though!
Add the second TBSP of coconut oil.
Add your lavender essential oil – OR you can choose another nice smelling oil. Roman chamomile is excellent for calming children down as well.
Once your water boils, slowly pour it into your mixture. Stirring it up as you are pouring.
You might need to add some more flour to your mixture once you’ve poured your water in. This will depend on the type of all purpose flour you’re using (they are not all the same but any of them will work).
Continue kneading the dough until it gets to a good consistency. I learned that the more I kneaded the dough the better it felt altogether.

Divide your dough into smaller sections and let it sit out for 30 minutes or so – just to cool down.

As I was researching how to make play dough, I came across this AMAZING idea for coloring play dough with markers!!! I thought it was SO NEAT and it worked amazing!!! Be sure to check out this blog and give it some love!

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