Edible Messy Play

• Cooked spaghetti
• Cooked rice
• Dry pasta (not really edible, but taste-safe)
• Bread crumbs
• Cocoa powder
• Baby food
• Flour
• Ketchup/barbeque sauce
• Cereal - whole or crunched up
• Oats
• Custard
• Cooked lentils
• Tinned tomatoes
• Mashed banana
• Cooked porridge
• Cornflour gloop - mix roughly 2 parts cornflour with 1 part water.  You can also colour it with food colouring
• Jelly
• Smoothie
• Fruit pieces - you could try freezing the fruit for something different!
• Baked beans
• Spaghetti hoops
• Frozen peas/sweetcorn, etc.
• Ice-cream
• Water - you could use food colouring to add colour or food flavouring to add scent/flavour
• Ice cubes - you could freeze things like fruits or herbs in ice cubes to make them even more enticing!  You could also colour them with food colouring
• Yoghurt - you could use flavoured yoghurt or add food colouring to colour plain yoghurt.  You could also try mark-making in a tray of yoghurt or use coloured yoghurts as edible finger paints

Edible Messy Play Recipes

Click on the links below for recipes for some exciting messy play materials.

Non-Edible Messy Play

• Shaving foam
• Crazy soap
• Dried lentils

Non-Edible Messy Play Recipes