Grace made playdough today on her first day of school. The teacher sent it home in a ziplok bag with the recipe attached. I’m very glad she did because if I found a recipe online and it wasn’t exactly the same, I would have heard about it.
We made up a batch when we got home. A very large batch. We made green, blue, pink and red. She already had purple. Her commercial play-doh supply was starting to run out. No worries about that now. I do wish I’d kept some of the containers though.
Here’s the recipe. We actually made two half batches in two sauce pans. I wouldn’t try the whole thing in one:
2 C flour
1 C salt
2 Tbsp cream of tarter
2 C water
1/4 C vegetable oil
Mix ingredients in saucepan. Stir continuously until it forms a ball that pulls away from sides of pan. Let cool. Knead in food coloring of your choice.
**** update: One batch was made without cream of tarter because I ran out. It seemed to make no difference at first. But after being sealed up in a plastic bag for a few weeks, the stuff without it was so sticky and gooey and gross that it was unusable. ****
It was pretty easy to make and not all that messy. (I’d show you pictures but my husband has again misplaced the camera.) This is something I would have normally said “not now” to because I’m lazy and would also be thinking about the things I should be doing. But this morning I had read this and this so I was making an effort to “be present.” Grace had tons of fun. We even spent an hour afterward making playdough cupcakes and mermaids. I’m glad I took the time to do this, even though I still need to do this list this week:
We will try this next week. Roman thanks you.
[...] The cheapest item we tried, at $10, was Yummy Dough. Basically it was play dough that you baked when finished playing with it. Grace said this was one of her favorite stations of the night but when we baked it at home, we discovered it did not taste very good. I’ll stick with homemade play dough. [...]