Playdoh Activity| Jack's Beanstalk

This week’s Fairytale Playdoh creation is Jack’s Beanstalk.

All month long, we are exploring the classic fairy tales that we know and love, as well as some great new adaptations of our favorite tales.

Last week, we created Rapunzel’s tower, and this week we have formed our own magical beanstalk based on the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Read on to learn how we created our own Play Doh version of Jack’s Beanstalk!

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Playdoh Activity |Jack's Beanstalk — Pin This! Jack’s Beanstalk Playdoh Activity

Here’s What You Need:

Playdoh

We used glittery gold, yellow, blue-green, green, glitter blue, and white. You can customize your colors based on what you have available or what you prefer.

I’m a traditionalist when it comes to play dough tools. I don’t buy in to the big kits or specialized play sets. I keep to the simplest tools possible. For this one I used a simple play doh knife and a roller.

Once you have everything together we can get started on Jack’s Beanstalk!

Step 1: It All Starts with the Beans

Before we can have the beanstalk, we need the magic beans. To make our beans, I mixed bright green and gold to make small bean shapes with a gold swirl in them. Simply take one small ball of each color and mix them together to make a magic bean.

Jack's Beanstalk | The Beans — Make the magic beans by mixing the gold and bright green colors together

Step 2: Mix it up

Mix together your gold, yellow, and blue green colors to make a swirly beanstalk color. There is no right or wrong answer. You can mix your colors as much or as little as you like.

Green Play Doh Mix — Mix three colors together to make a green that is swirly and totally unique for your beanstalk.

Step 3: Roll your Stalk and it’s Branches

Roll various colors out into long “snakes” that can be twisted together. You can also twist some unmixed colors into these rolled pieces. Create as many as you want. Create larger and smaller ones. Be sure to make at least 3 large long pieces to make your main stalk.

Jack's Beanstalk Twists — Begin rolling long “snakes and twisting them together. This is how you build the beanstalk.

Step 4: Twist it Up

Twist your 3 bigger pieces together to make a large stalk. Then, twist smaller pieces to create branches. You can add leaves in the brighter green if you wish. This is the creative and interpretive part of the activity. You can build your stalk however you like, but the key is to have many twisted branches and offshoots.

Step 5: Take it up to the clouds

I used the roller and the knife to make some clouds for the top of the beanstalk. This part is optional but helps add to the big picture of the beanstalk scene. You can mix some blue into white for a swirl effect, or create blue sky and add white clouds. This is up to you. Simply roll and cut the cloud design by hand.

Building Clouds — Use blue and white to create the clouds and sky above Jack’s Beanstalk

No matter how you choose to make your beanstalk, make it uniquely yours!

This play doh activity is a bit less straight forward than previous play doh idea, but the main idea is to roll, twist and create a towering beanstalk.

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Fairytale Play Doh Activity | Jack’s Beanstalk

This week’s Fairytale Playdoh creation is Jack’s Beanstalk.