🌿💜 Blueberry Lavender Playdough💜🌿
Instead of throwing them away I'd heard that blueberries make a pretty purple nature dye and you don't even need many blueberries to make the dye at all (although ours was a huge bag full) 🙈
We decided to make playdough and use the dye for this and here js the outcome of our blueberry dye this pretty purple playdough - we added some lavender too which made it a nice calming activity for Lil 💜
What we used
💜 Bag of expired frozen blueberries
💜 old pot (the natural dyes can stain)
💜 Strainer
💜 Lavender
🌿 Playdough Recipe 🌿
🌿 2 cups of Flour
🌿 1 cup of water (we used our dye for the water part)
🌿 2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil
🌿 1 Cup of Salt
As always if you dough is too dry add more water and too wet add more flour but it should have that buttery soft playdough feel easy for little fingers to push into, you can always add more oil to get the softness just right!
💜 blueberry dye 💜
Pour your bag of blueberries into a small saucepan we added just enough water to almost cover them, remembering that being frozen they will have excess water too (the more water you have the duller the color of the dye) so we probably filled the saucepan a quarter full with water and storing regularly to prevent the blueberries from sticking to the pot 👌
We had our blueberries boiling on high for 15 minutes until the water reached our desired color, strained the water to get rid of any blueberry skins and add to your playdough mix 💜
At the end we also added the dried lavender chopped up to our playdough and that's it 💜🌿