Dragons Love Tacos Playdough Recipe and Activity

This taco playdough recipe is super easy! After reading the book Dragons Love Tacos, your children will have fun making it and then building make-believe tacos. I need to warn you when we made this playdough recipe my husband wandered into the kitchen wondering if we were going to have tacos for lunch. The seasoning really makes the playdough smell like a taco.

Taco Playdough Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups of all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons of vegetable oil

1/2 cup of salt

2 tablespoons of cream of tartar

1 1/2 cups of boiling water

3 teaspoons of taco seasoning

 

Directions for Making this Playdough Recipe

In a large bowl mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar, oil and taco seasoning. You will want to mix it until it is fully blended.

Next, slowly add the boiling water to the mixture a little at a time.

Finally, you will want to stir it continuously with a fork until it becomes a sticky dough. (A little more flour can be added if you think it is too sticky.)

Making the Taco Building Accessories

You will need yellow, red, and green plastic file folders to make the taco building accessories. Let me walk you through how we made ours.

Tomatoes

You will need to trace small circles onto the red file folder. Then you will need to cut them out. Finally, you will fold them in half and cut two triangles along the fold.

Lettuce

You will need to cut cloud shaped pieces out of the green folder. If you cut them along the edge of the closed folder, you will cut out two lettuce leaves at a time.

Shredded Cheese

You will cut several wavy lines about 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart along the edge of the yellow folder. Each line will need to be about three inches long. Then you will cut a straight line across the inside end of the lines. The shredded cheese pieces will all fall from the folder at the same time.

Pretend Play Activity with the Taco Playdough

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Before your children build tacos with the playdough and taco accessories, you will want to read them the book Dragons Love Tacos.

Then your children will have fun rolling or patting the playdough into tortillas for the tacos. They can make standing tacos or tacos that lay flat on the tables. I made a laying down taco and JDaniel decided to make a standing one.

Finally, they will need to fill the tacos. We placed button olives and the plastic food accessories. We didn’t add meat to ours.

Dragons Love Tacos in the Virtual Book Club book of the week. Here are some more activities based on the book: