Play Dough
(Nancy Carlsson-Paige)
- 1 1/2 C flour
- 3/4 C salt
- 1 Tablespoon cream of Tarter (don't omit)
- 1 1/2 Tablespoon oil
- 1 C water
- Food coloring
Put dry ingredients in a pot and mix. Add whatever food coloring you like to the water. Put the pot on low heat and slowly add the liquid to the dry ingredients. When it's warm, knead. Keeps in the refrigerator for months
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Play dough
Some home-made play dough has a lot of salt in it. Even eating small amounts, such as two teaspoons of this play dough, could make an average 2 years old child very ill.
Some play doughs and slimes use borax as the preservative, and borax is also poisonous. These play doughs have a very unpleasant taste and most children will spit them out.
There are other, safer, play dough recipes. They will not last as long as play dough made with salt does, but they are very easy to make.
Commercial play doughs will be safe if they are labelled as safe.
One safer dough is 'stretchy dough'. Use any measure which will make as much as you want, such as a cup, lid, spoon, container.
Ingredients:
- 2 measures of self raising flour
- 1 measure of cold water
Mix this together until it is a stretchy dough. Add more flour if needed.
It can be coloured using food colours
Spices can be added for smell.
(recipe from the Playgroup Association of South Australia)
