Learn how to make unique DIY play dough with only three ingredients.

This version glows in the dark and is so inexpensive to make!

Kids will love it.

homemade play dough recipe

Skills Required: None.Kids of any age without crafting experience can make this.

Its a very simple recipe.

And glows SO brightly when the sun charges it, no matter what time of year!

Glow in the dark play dough

The base playdough recipe only requires two ingredients conditioner and cornstarch.

The third ingredient is the glow in the dark paint.

If you want to make the recipe, its simply 2:1 cornstarch to conditioner.

Glow in the dark play dough

you’ve got the option to add food coloring to make it any color you like.

To kick it up a notch, I decided to take the standard recipe and make it glow.

To do that, you only have to add one more ingredient: glow in the dark paint!

Mix the conditioner and corn starch together in a bowl

Im still impressed that this homemade play dough only requires three ingredients and is virtually mess free!

This is a craft idea that is going into the regular rotation for us.

Hopefully it will relieve the winter blues for an afternoon!

Mixing glow in the dark paint with cornstarch and conditioner

Heres how youre going to make it.

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Tips and Tricks for This Craft

Have fun!

You are allowed to play with your glowing playdough with the lights on, too!

diy play dough

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Learn how to make unique DIY play dough with only three ingredients - this version glows in the dark and is so inexpensive to make! Kids will love it.