For a while now colin has been wanting me to make a new batch of playdough… Khéna is now at the age where play dough doesn’t look like food as much anymore so this morning I finally decided to do it…
I made two batches… one blue and one green… both with a vanilla scent…
here is the recipe I use…
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup salt
- 2 tsp cream of tarter
- 1 tbsp oil
- 2 tsp vanilla extract (I use the cheap clear stuff)
- 1 cup flour
- colouring
Mix in a pan on the stove over medium heat until thick…
The boys watched while I made it and then ran down stairs to get the play dough toys while it cooled…
They sat down at about 9:30… and their imaginations just soared…
Khéna smashed and bashed and pressed and mashed… Colin made toast with butter, pizza and Anakin Skywalker…
Xavier made cookies and cakes and spaghetti and meatballs… I cut a kleenex box and they had an “oven” to cook things in…
Cookies
at noon I asked them to put it away while we ate lunch…
After lunch they went and played in the snow for about an hour and a half and then got inside and soon after got the playdough out again and played for another 2 hours with it…
I have a feeling that we will be playing with playdough quite often in the next few days…
I love the colour! That could actually be my favourite colour. I like the idea of adding the scent!
Home made playdough – I remember spending a lot of time playing with that as a kid and I’ve made it for a few friends kids over the years too. It’s always so much fun and it’s sooooo easy!
My mom used to complain that cream of tartar was so expensive so I’ve gone without a few times and it doesn’t seem to handle very differently although it just may be what contributes to a shorter life span. I’ll let someone else experiment with that one. You’ll definitely want to experiment with ornament dough come Christmas time next year – it’s just as much fun but the effects are permanent.
Oh yes… I will really want to be doing that next year… I am sure of it…
Cream of Tartar is pretty cheap here.. I buy it in a bulk bag and it is only a few dollars and I have at least a dozen batches that I can make from it…
The boys actually have it out again at this moment…