I stumbled upon a homemade play dough recipe in a children’s activity book the other day and I thought lets give it a shot.  Being the good new Stay at Home Mom that I am (ha ha) I try to have at least one activity each day for the boys and I thought this one would be perfect and once you make the play dough it stays good indefinitely (now that’s my kind of recipe).

It calls for just a few ingredients and it non-toxic of course.  Something I worry about since my boys love putting everything in their mouths.

So first let me show you how to make it, step by step, because really it’s not hard at all, but I took pictures and umm I took pictures, so here they are.

Ingredients: 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt, 1 T oil, 1 cup water, 2 T cream of tartar, food coloring

Start by mixing all the ingredients in a medium sized pot over medium heat

Continue stirring

until

the mixture forms a ball

Then remove from the heat and knead until smooth

then I cut it in half to make two colors (blue and green)

then I dropped a few green drops of food coloring

and kneaded until color is incorporated

repeated with blue

I set the boys up in their high chairs and each gave them a piece of play dough

At first Little H wasn’t too sure

But Little W dug right in

Little H kept trying to give it back to me

or to his brother

But then I whipped out some utensils, and he figured he liked it

They played and played

Gotta love the tongue action!  Little H does this when he is concentrating

Then I made them little bracelets Little W loved his

but Little H didn’t like it too much

So all in all the play dough was lots of fun, but best of it, it didn’t make any mess at all and super easy to clean up.  So I will highly recommend making some fun play dough for your little ones.  I think next time I will get out some cookie cutters!

What are some of your favorite activities with your children?

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24 Responses

  1. This is a way cool idea and I think I will have to try this out too. I bet my twins will enjoy playing with play-doh. I never gave it a thought that they’re probably old enough to use it now. Looks like the twins had a good time!
    Thank you for sharing this idea =)

  2. We love making play dough, too! I have a recipe that uses Kool-Aid instead of food coloring, and it smells yummy! We also like to paint, color, glue, and cut with scissors! There will be so many crafts to do as your boys get older!

  3. I love homemade play dough because it’s so warm and gushy. Have you seen the Wilton’s food colors? They have them in the cake decorating section at Wal-Mart and Michael’s. Fabulous colors.

    I like the Kool-Aid idea too, but my son would have eaten that!

  4. Looks like your little boy is headed for masculinity already. He certainly didn’t like that girly bracelet on his wrist. Looks like a fun project, I might have to try this one.
    If you’d like to stop by my blog I’m at Cake Crumbs.

  5. This is the first play-dough I’ve seen that doesn’t look crumbly and messy. If we’re blessed with more littles, I’m definitely going to make this. Thanks for sharing – and for sharing photos of those cutie-patooties!! Adorable!

    Have a lovely weekend~
    Shani

  6. I have made this recipe before and didn’t think it was ever going to get to play dough consistency. It’s exactly like it when it’s finished. So fun!!

  7. LOVE the tongue action!!!

    We make salt dough at Christmas time and the kids make tree ornaments. We have a lot of great memories associated with salt dough in our house!

  8. i am doing a child care project on play dough . i need to know the crytria of play dough, moter skill ect the advantages and disadvantages and why it is a good toy for children. how is eductional

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