Make your own home made play dough!
Edible Play dough
1/2 C peanut butter
1/2 C honey
1 C powdered milk
Just throw it all together and mush it up with your hands until its fairly smooth. The oils from the peanut butter will keep it from sticking to the table and the kids' hands.
"Play Dough"
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup water
Mix well until it forms a ball. Knead add food coloring if desired. If sticky add some flour and if to dry add a small amount of water.
Play dough 2
1 cup flour
1 cup warm water
2 teaspoons cream of tarter
1 teaspoon oil
1/4 cup salt
food coloring
Mix all ingredients (add food coloring last). Stir over medium heat until smooth. Remove from pan, let cool slightly, and knead until blended and smooth. Store in a plastic bag or airtight container when cooled.
Kool-aid Dough
Flour 3cups
Salt 1 1/2 cups
Water 3 cups
Vegetable Oil 2TB.
Cream of tartar 1TB.
unsweetened "Kool-Aid" 1pkg.
Mix ALL of the ingredients in a large saucepan.
Cook over medium low heat, until the dough comes away
from the edges of the pan and it becomes difficult to move the spoon. Remove from heat. Cool until it can be handled.
Place on counter or wax paper knead 3-4 times.
Store in an air tight container.
Fairy Play Doh (glitter)
You Need
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup water
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
Food coloring gel (this will make the colors more vibrant)
Glitter
Mix all ingredients with the exception of the glitter in a sauce pan well heat stiring the mix constantly untill it forms a ball remove at once.
Add the glitter and knead untill smooth and uniform.Store in a tight sealing container.This mix stores at room temperature.
Rubber Dough
A silly fun texture
You will need
2 cups baking soda
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup cornstarch
Mix every thing into a sauce pan.Boil over medium heat untill the mix is thick. Plop onto a plate cool and play.
Keep it Clay
This mixture dries VERY hard great for making jewerly like beads ect.
1 (1-pound) box baking soda
1 cup cornstarch
1 1/4 cups cold water
Food coloring (Gel is best or leave it plain and paint later)
Mix baking soda and cornstarch together then add water. Cook and stir over low heat until consistency of mashed potatoes. Remove the dough from the heat and cover with damp towel until it is cool enough to handle. Use for play dough or jewelry shaping or roll it out and cut with cookie cutter to make decorations.
Sore in an air tight container
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Other types of dough and putty
Cinnamon Dough
1 Cup Applesauce
1 Cup Cinnamon
Mix well if sticky add more cinnamon if to dry add more apple sauce ...knead well. Cut with cookie cutters to make ornaments let air dry. These may be painted.
Flubber Fun
You will need two bowls
In bowl 1 mix
3/4 cup warm water
1 cup white glue
Food coloring
In bowl 2 mix
2 tsp borax
1/2 a cup warm water
Mix bowl 1 well, Mix bowl two well...Now let the magic begin! pour bowl 1 into bowl two...No need to mix just reach on in and grab your flubber..work it for 3 minutes.
Sawdust Clay
Great for making things and drying to paint
You will need.
Fine grit sand paper
A breezy warm spot
1 cup fine sawdust
1/2 cup flour
water
Mix sawdust and flour well then begin to add water a small amount at a time untill the mix is of clay consistancy. If it becomes to wet add more flour and if it becomes to crumbly add more water and a small amount of flour.
Shape into what ever you desire, dry for 24-48 hours sand and paint with acrylic or tempra paints (Tempra is best for young children but acrylic will cover the best)
Play Doh Ideas
-We use christmas cookie cutters to cut shapes and then we use a straw to make a hole at the top. Let dry then string a ribbon through it and "voila" a christmas tree ornament. For those of you with a sense of "pizzazz" glue on glitter beads or little fancy ribbons to add flare to your decorations. Have fun!
Submitted by: Candace
-Roll into ropes and make the letters of the alphabet together, numbers too!
-Roll into a flat circle and let the child use cookie cutters to cut shapes.
-Make beads, string them on floss and let dry into a necklace.
-Make a collection of toy dishes.
-Make sculptures of your family.
-Make Noahs ark and his animals
-Press your childs hand into the doh and let dry for ever to encapture their small hand print.
-Have a play doh birthday party...set out tables with play doh and differnt play doh activities, hold contests such as the best play doh birthday cake ect...it is sure to keep the kids busy for a long time!This is great for a party with rainbow colors for a theme.
What do you do with your play doh? Send your ideas to Playdoh@simplymoms.com
