Most of the recipes for good play dough are cooked in a saucepan on the stove - its messy, and you end up with an arm ache. For as long as I can remember Ive been making play dough using boiling water rather than cooking it on the stove. I find it works just as well, keeps just as well, and doesn't leave you with a clean up job that makes you think twice about making the dough in the first place. Here is how its done.
You will need...
2 cups plain flour
4 Tablespoons Cream of tartar
2 Tablespoons cooking oil
1 cup salt
2 cups water
food colouring
Add the flour, Cream of Tartar, cooking oil, and salt to a bowl. Add the two cups of boiling water and mix until it comes together. Tip on to a lightly floured bench and knead until you have a gorgeous smooth dough (this only takes a minute)
To colour the dough you can either add some food colouring to the water before you add it, or if you want more than one colour from a batch, divide it up and add a little colouring to each piece and knead it through (be warned this is the messy option!)
Today we choose to make four colours - pink, purple, yellow, blue and green, and the kids are sitting having a wonderful time with it.
If you have toddlers, making a lovely rainbow of colours is purely for Mummy's sake - mixing the colours up is half the fun, it will most likely look like this with in minutes!
At four, Isaac is much more interested in having a lump of dough and seeing what he can make with it.
3 comments:
A good and simple recipe, thank for sharing :)
I use that recipe too Nic. It's great and never fails. You make pretty colours!
I just made your recipe and the boys are happily playing with green playdough as I write this! Thank you for showing me how to do it without a saucepan, it was too easy!
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