Home-made Playdoh

Alicia fell sick over the weekend so she had to miss school today. To cheer her up, I decided to try something different with her and we made playdoh! I was really quite apprehensive as even though I've been reading quite a bit about making playdoh, it was a different thing trying to put the act together.

Nevertheless, I'm very glad that the recipe I worked with worked well, with some impromptu alterations as I made the playdoh:

I've received some queries about the playdoh recipe I used on my Facebook page, so here it is!:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
• up to 2 cups boiling water 
• food colouring (I worked with only red, blue and yellow)
• glycerin (optional, for extra shine - I didn't use it this time)

Directions:

• Mix the ingredients together (except water and food colouring)
• Pour in the boiling water. Don't pour 2 cups in immediately. Adjust as you go along.
• Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky dough.
• Let it cool down a bit then knead it vigorously for a few minutes until the texture is that of playdoh. 
• If it's still sticky, add a bit more flour and knead again. Adjust accordingly. (I personally had to add more flour using this recipe)
• Separate the dough into as many balls (I made 8) as you wish to colour using the food colouring.
• Add the food colouring to individual balls then knead in the colour till the dough is of a solid colour.
• Play!!!!

Invitation to play: playdoh and coloured craft sticks

Welcome to Alicia's little ice-cream shop!

Even lil Alex (9mths) had a go at it! Well, he tried to have a bite of it too! But I guess it tasted very bad as he didn't try to eat it again. :P

Note: I didn't scent or add glitter etc. to the dough this time as it's my first attempt at making playdough and I wanted Alex to play with it too. I'm too paranoid that he'd eat the glitter etc. but I may try to add these the next time round!