Reindeer Playdough – Build a Reindeer Printables

The kids will love making crazy cute Christmas reindeer with this reindeer playdough set up and free printable reindeer playdough accessories!

Use this easy, no-cook, chocolate playdough recipe, to makes deliciously scented brown playdough that is perfect for building a playdough reindeer. Then grab our free printable ‘build a reindeer’ accessories and make these super cute playdough reindeer.

We have a soft spot for reindeer in our family. We’ve made some free printable reindeer antlers so you can dress up as a reindeer, and we made this super fun reindeer card, and every year my kids love making this reindeer food recipe.

My mum even collects reindeer, and she has so many cute, funny, and weird reindeer that I knew my kids would love making their own crazy playdough reindeer!

This reindeer playdough activity is a perfect Christmas sensory activity for kids of all ages. Using our free printable ‘build a reindeer’ accessories this Christmas playdough activity is easy to set and so much fun.

The kids will have a lovely time making all kinds of crazy, cute, and even kinda ugly, playdough reindeer!

Easy, No-cook, Chocolate Playdough Recipe

Since this time of the year is already busy enough, lets keep it simple with an easy, no-cook, play dough recipe.

The easiest way to make brown play dough that is perfect for making reindeer, is to add 2-3 tablespoons of cocoa as your colouring. Not only does the cocoa make the play dough a nice reindeer brown, it also makes it smell like chocolate, so make sure you remind little ones that it won’t actually taste like chocolate!

Here is our easy no-cook chocolate play dough recipe:

Easy No-Cook Chocolate Play Dough!

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Difficulty: easy

This easy, no-cook, chocolate, play dough recipe is perfect for making reindeer!

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Materials

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 tbsp cream of tar tar
• 2 tbsp of vegetable oil
• 3/4 cup hot water
• 2-3 tbsp cocoa

Instructions

1. In a large bowl mix the flour, cocoa, salt and cream of tar tar together.
2. Add the oil and mix well.
3. Add the hot water a little at a time, mixing well, until it becomes a slightly sticky dough.
4. Knead the dough on a floured surface for a few minutes until it becomes soft and workable. If it is still a bit sticky knead in some extra flour.

How to set up a Reindeer Playdough Invitation to Play

Now that you have some lovely brown playdough, you’ll need to collect some fun accessories and items for building your reindeer.

To make our playdough reindeer we collected a few bits and pieces from around the house that I thought would be fun and useful and match the theme.

For our reindeer play dough set we used:

• Printable reindeer accessories (see blow to download)
• Googly eyes
• Sticks
• Curling ribbon cut into small pieces
• Gold ribbon stars

You could also use buttons, beads, pipe cleaners, or anything else that you have on hand.

Free Printable Reindeer Playdough Accessories.

Making Playdough Reindeer.

Now you are ready to make some very cute, if a little dopey, looking reindeer!

Working with the chocolate playdough was a great sensory activity, and it’s always great for working on fine motor skills, and creativity.

More Christmas Playdough Ideas

If you would like some more Christmas play dough fun check out our Christmas play dough mats.

You can buy this set of Christmas themed play dough mats in my shop.
There are six different open-ended designs ready to print and play.

For even more fun Christmas ideas check out one of these fun activities: