Seashell lemon play dough recipe

I made this lemon play dough recipe while we were away at the beach. It’s perfect for seaside sensory play with some lovely shells.

Here’s the recipe.

Homemade lemon play dough recipe

It seems I can’t go anywhere without some beloved play dough!

A great thing about homemade play dough is it’s so quick and easy to make – even at a beach cottage, with limited ingredients in the kitchen.

 

 

Adapted from my favourite easy play dough recipe I mixed up:

2 mugs of flour

1 mug of salt

1 1/2 mugs of water

2 tablespoons-ish of oil

Our holiday cottage was lacking in cream of tartar {no surprise there really!} but you can just leave that out and still get a great homemade play dough.

 

 

And for a little bit of added zing I grated in the rind of a lemon.

Mix everything together to form a dough and you’re ready to play.

 

 

The beach of course is the perfect place to find some loose parts to add in to the play. So many lovely pebbles and shells to collect.

 

 

The dough and the shells make such a simple, natural invitation to play. They’re a great contrast in textures and open to play, however your child chooses.

 

 

The shells make great prints in the dough, but with a child’s imagination this simple set-up can become a whole other world….

 

 

with a deep, dark cave…

 

 

and long snakes who live there…

 

 

in a stylish residence by the sea!