Play-dough recipe
Bob & Martha Vera
Everyone did so well getting the lyrics to the "Grandfather Clock" song
that I have decided to seek your help in another matter. I need the
recipe for homemade play-dough.
Thanks!
Martha
Magi D. Shepley
http://food.from.net/recipe/playdough
the first one is the best one, I think... It has a recipe for edible peanut
butter playdough, and kool-aid colored playdough. My kids love the peanut
butter version. I had one for a no-cook playdough (other than peanut
butter), but I'll tell you up front... it doesn't work very well!! We made
an incredible mess!
Magi
Bob & Martha Vera
in addition to the typical kids menu with crayons, my son was given a handful
of homemade play-dough. Kept him busy before the meal and for the several hour
drive we took afterwards. Great idea!
Magi D. Shepley
usually do it around Christmas if the kids have younger sibs, it makes a nice
gift. ;)
Dorothy Sacks
playdoh and other stuff here, from my files.
Dorothy
To make bubbles mix 3C water, 1C liquid soap and 1T sugar
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If you are concerned just use food coloring -- we all eat that everyday.
MAKING BREAD CLAY **THIS CLAY IS NOT FOR EATING!!!!
You will need:
1 slice of bread without the crust
1 teaspoon of white glue
1 teaspoon of water
food coloring, any color
Instructions:
1. Blend bread, white glue, and water together.
2. Knead mixture until thoroughly mixed.
3. Add a few drops of food coloring until you get the color you want.
4. Shape dough into shapes, worms, jewelry, beads (use toothpick to make
holes in center).
5. Dry clay overnight. (this will harden the clay)
Cornstarch Clay
1 cup cornstarch
2 cups salt
1 1/3 cups cold water
Put salt and 2/3 cup water in pan and bring to a boil. Mix cornstarch with
2/3 cup water and mix well.
Blend 2 mixtures together and knead into clay. Makes about 3 cups. This clay
can be air dried and then
painted. Store unused clay in airtight container in the fridge.
Playdough
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups salt
3 cups flour
3 cups water (add food coloring if wanted)
6 teaspoons cream of Tarter
3 Tablespoons cooking oil
Mix all ingredients in a large sauce pan. Cook over low heat until mixture
comes clean in pan (stirring constantly.) Turn off the flame and let cool.
Store in a plastic bag or air tight container!
Play Dough
1 cup flour
1 cup warm water
2 teaspooons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon oil
1/4 cup salt
food coloring
Mix all ingredients, adding food coloring last. Stir over medium heat until
smooth. Remove from pan and knead until blended smooth. Place in plastic bag
or airtight container when cooled. Will last for a long time.
Play Dough Recipe 1
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 cups water
4 tablespoons oil
1/2 cup cream of tartar
Mix all ingredients in a sauce pan. Cook and stir over low/medium heat until
play dough is completely formed and no longer sticky. Allow to cool slightly
before storing in an air tight container or zip lock bag.
Play Dough Recipe 2
3 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
1/4 cup vegetable oil
In a 2-cup glass measuring cup, put (in this order):
1 Tblsp. alum (spice section store)
Food coloring of desired intensity
Boiling water to equal 2 cups liquid total Add to liquid to flour mixture.
Stir well with a heavy spoon until entire batch is thoroughly blended. Dough
will be quite moist -- but do not add more flour. As it sets overnight the
moisture is absorbed by the flour and the next day the playdough is "just
right". Store in an airtight container. Knead well just before it is first
used.
Kool-Aid Play Dough
1 cup flour
1/4 cup salt
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 package unsweetened Kool-Aid
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup water
Mix flour, salt, cream of tartar and Kool-Aid in a medium pot Add water and
oil. Stir over medium heat 3 to 5 minutes. When mixture forms a ball in pot,
remove. Knead until smooth. Put in a plastic bag and refrigerate.
Edible Fun Dough
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup honey
2 cups powdered milk (use just the powder)
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Add more powdered milk to make a more
workable dough if needed.
This dough is great for little ones who put everything into their mouths.
Form the dough into shapes, eat
for snack.
Fun Dough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoons oil
food coloring if desired
Add food coloring to water, then mix all the ingredients in a sauce pan.
Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until mixture forms a thick dough.
Remove from heat and cool. Knead until smooth. Keep in airtight container in
fridge.
Salt alum dough (alum is cheaper ,than cream of tarter and I like the
consistency better.)
Materials:
2 cups water
1/2 cup salt
food coloring
2T salad oil
2T alum
2 cups flour
Process:
1. boils water, salt and food coloring in a pan
2. remove from heat
3. add oil, alum and flour
4. while hot mix and knead 5 minutes
5. explore dough freely
The texture is wonderful, and stored in a plastic bag it lasts for ever, and
it is not crumbly like the version with cream of tarter can be. And I do not
know what cream of tarter, or alum, does.
Gak (Homemade Silly Putty)
1 cup white glue (Elmer's)
food coloring
1 cup liquid starch
Put glue and coloring in plastic container. Add starch a little at a time,
stirring constantly. Keep stirring until mixture holds together like putty.
Test with your fingers, if too sticky, add more starch in small amounts
until mass is smooth and rubbery. Have fun pulling, stretching, bouncing and
taking transfers off
of the Sunday comics, etc. Store in a plastic bag or airtight container.
Silly Putty
1/2 cup liquid starch
1/2 cup elmers glue
Mix starch and glue together until it feels like silly putty. Store in
airtight container in the fridge.
Ooey Goey Silly Putty
Ingredients:
1 cup liquid starch
2 cups Elmer's glue
Add glue to starch and mix with hands until it forms a ball. Knead 5-10
minutes. If it is too sticky add a little starch. If it is too runny add
some glue.
Cornstarch Goop
Ingredients:
1 cup cornstarch
a small amount of water
Add water slowly to cornstarch until the goop drips from the spoon.
The mixture will seem hard until you try to pick it up then it slides
between your fingers. If it is to liquidy add a little more cornstarch.
If the white is too boring for you add some food coloring!
Stretchofoam
Ingredients:
Acetone (at least enough to fill a coffee cup half way)
styrofoam (the more you have, the more it will make)
1 coffee cup
Fill the coffee mug with about a quarter inch of acetone. Place the
styrofoam in the acetone. It should fizzle. Keep adding more styrofoam until
you reach a good sized blob. You can pick it up and play with it.
Stretchofoam can be washed if you do not wish to get acetone on your hands
because it may dry your hands out, but by washing it loses some of it's
stretchy properties.
Flubber
Ingredients:
large container
1 cup of water
white glue
2 tsp. borax
In the container mix the water and borax. Then add the glue. The
more glue you add the bigger the glob will be. Stir well. After a
minute pick up glob and mush in your hand mixing in any pockets of
glue left. If you roll it in a ball you can bounce it on the floor
but don't try to bounce it on the carpet, it picks up a lot of lint.
Glop
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of milk
1/4 cup of vinegar
disposable coffee filter
Warm the half cup of milk just a little either in the microwave or on the
stove.
Pour in the vinegar. Then stir. You will see blobs floating around in the
liquid
Pour it through the coffee filter. After the liquid has been strained
through the
coffee filter you will see your glop in the filter.
Goop, or Oobleck (play slime)
corn starch
water
food coloring
Put some cornstarch into a bowl. Add just enough water to make it pasty. Add
food coloring. This makes a messy slime, that can go form liquid to
solid.....just play with it for a while! I used to put this outside on
cookie sheets for a group of kids to play with - kept em busy for hours!
Well, get a couple boxes of cornstarch and add about a cup or so of
water.....better yet, put water in spray bottles and let the KIDS wet it
down. It will get to a consistancy that is oozey...like when you pick it up
you want to say," oooooo, Bleck!"
What it is, actually, is a study in chemical analysis. The water and the
cornstarch do not mix to become a solution, so the water will separate from
the cornstarch overnight. When you pick up a handful, you can roll it into a
ball, seeminly hard, but as soon as you stop rolling it will dissolve
between your fingers. It is the 2nd best stuff to introduce children
to...NEXT to clean mud, of course. I don't know what the exact proportionas
are because I usually let the kids make this wonderful mess in the touch
table themselves and if it is too watery, we just add more cornstarch. My
center buys it by the case!
Slime
From a chemistry teacher in Traverse City, Michigan
mixture - 2 or more things are just mixed together in uneven proportions and
not chemically combined in any way, for example sand, rocks, ang gravel in a
bucket solution - 2 or more substances that are evenly distributed, example
a salt and water solution, if you dissolve salt in water the top of the
glass does not have a more salty taste than the bottom suspension - when you
have particles that never settle out, for example if you take a glass of
water and put
a couple drops of milk in the water you have a suspension. You test for a
suspension by placing a flashlight next to a glass of liquid, if you can see
the beam of light shine through it, then it is a suspension, if you cannot
see the beam of light pass through it like tap water, then it is not a
suspension. Another example of a suspension is looking at rays of light
shine through your window in the evenings, and you can see the dust
particles in the air, the dust particles are a suspension. In terms of
making slime I have two recipes. One is easier to do because you can get the
materials from stores. First you need to purchase 100% guar gum from a
health food store. It cannot have anything else in it or it does not work.
Put about 1/4 teaspoon in about 85 ml water. Swirl to dissolve for about 5
minutes. Place 2-3 drops food coloring in water and swirl. You will need to
purchase 20 Mule Team Borax at a
department store by the cleaning supplies. Place about 2 T in a cup of water
and mix. If all of the borax dissolved you need to add some more borax. Stir
it slowly and add 2-3 teaspoons of the liquid from the borax solution, not
the undissolved crystals at the bottom, to your guar gum solution. You may
have to adjust the amounts because I use digital balances when my students
make it, but do not give up because it is fun to make and your students will
love it.
Clean Mud
We just made some "clean mud" in our class. You take 4 full rolls of toilet
paper (any kind will do) and have the kids help unroll it. Put it into a
large container (one that has a top that fits airtight), Add enough warm
water to saturate the t.p. Grate one full bar of Ivory soap into mixture.
Add 1/3 cup of Borax. Mix with hands. If you keep this in an airtight
container it will keep for several days. The children LOVE it!
Use these instructions to make your own papier mâché:
Alert! This activity can be messy. Always cover your work area, including
the floor, with newspapers before beginning. Wear old clothes. And check
with a parent or other adult before using kitchen supplies!
The basic method for making papier mâché objects is layering. The layering
method involves pasting layers of paper pieces over a basic shape to make
such objects as containers and masks.
What you'll need:
· large bowl
· plastic cup
· newspapers
· white household glue
· water
· objects to use as a mold (suggestions: paper or plastic bowl, balloon,
shoe box, toilet paper and paper towel rolls, plastic eggs, paper cups, foam
balls, empty plastic bottles, etc.)
1. First, decide what object you would like to make, and find or build a
mold that you can use as a base. If the shape is to be removed from the
papier mâché after drying, cover it with petroleum jelly to make it easier
to remove.
2. Now, dilute two parts of white household glue with one part water in a
plastic cup.
3. Tear several sheets of newspaper into small pieces. Put them in a bowl
and moisten them with water.
4. Now cover your mold with pieces of damp paper, overlapping them as you
go. Using a big paint brush,
brush the layer with your diluted glue.
5. Continue building layer upon layer until the object is of desired
thickness. You can "sculpt" your object
by making the layers thicker in some places to form the desired shape. If
you intend to remove the object
from the mold, be sure not to close up the opening, or you will not be able
to remove the mold.
6. Set your object on a cookie sheet lined with waxed paper or plastic wrap.
Allow object to dry naturally
away from direct heat.
7. Once your object is completely dry, you may remove it from the mold if
desired. Now decorate your
object using acrylic paints, glitter, tissue paper, ribbon, yarn, or any
other material. Have fun!
Self-Hardening Salt Clay
1 1/2 cups (375 ml) salt
4 cups (1 l) flour
1 1/2 cups water
1 teaspoon (5 ml) alum (as preservative if clay is not baked)
Mix the dry ingredients together in a plastic bowl; then add water
gradually. When dough forms a ball
around the spoon, knead the dough well, adding water if it is too crumbly.
This clay can also be baked. Set
the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) and bake small shapes for 30 - 40
minutes or until hard.
Play Dough Clay (non-hardening)
2 cups (500 ml) flour
1 cup (250 ml) salt
1 teaspoon (5 ml) cream of tartar
2 Tablespoons (25 ml) oil
1 teaspoon food coloring
2 cups water
Directions: Mix ingredients in a saucepan. Ask a grown-up for help in
cooking over medium heat, stirring constantly, until dough leaves sides of
pan. Remove from pan, and when cool to the touch, knead for a few
minutes.
Cloud Dough (this dough is oily, but is extremely pliable and easy for very
young children to use)
1/2 cup (125 ml) water (or more)
1/2 cup cooking oil
2 cups (500 ml) flour
2 cups salt
Food coloring
Peppermint oil
Directions: Mix together the cooking oil, flour, and salt. Add a few drops
of the food color to the water. Gradually add the water (additional water
may be needed to bind the dough). Add a few drops of the peppermint oil.
Knead the mixture until smooth and pliable.
Cornstarch Dough
1/2 cup (125 ml) water
1 cup (250 ml) baking soda
1/2 cup (125 ml) cornstarch
Directions: Mix together the soda, water, and cornstarch in a heavy
saucepan. Ask a grown-up to cook over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon
until the mixture becomes thick. Add a few drops of food coloring. Cool and
knead until it's smooth. Use dough for modeling or roll out and cup shapes.
Air-dry dough before painting. Store dough in a plastic bag in the
refrigerator.
Sawdust Dough (this dough has an interesting texture for small sculpture
projects)
2 cups (500 ml) sawdust
1 cup (250 Ml) wallpaper paste
water
Directions: Mix the dry paste with the sawdust. Slowly add water until a
thick dough forms. Model into shapes. Let harden overnight.
SAWDUST CLAY
Per child- Mix together 1 cup clean, fine sawdust with 1 cup thin paste. (I
assume this means a water/flour mixture). Mix to make a thick dough. Knead
and model. You can stick pieces together by wetting with water. Dry the
objects 2-3 days, or in a 200 oven for 1-2 hours. Sand and paint, if
desired. Dries with a nice wood grain.
Finger Paint
(add a sprinkling of powered soap flakes (not liquid) to either of these
recipes to help paint glide over the paper and to make clean-up easier)
Directions: Mix 2 parts of liquid laundry starch with 1 part powered tempera
paint or a few drops of food coloring as you paint on the paper OR Mix flour
and cold water into a paste. Add food coloring or powered tempera paint on
the paper as you paint.
Soap Paint
(This paint dries with a three-dimensional effect. Colored sand or glitter
will adhere to the paint without using glue. Work with the paint on heavy
paper or cardboard. Dispose of paint in a trash can, as it will clog a sink
drain.
1 cup (250 ml) soap flakes (do not use soap powder)
1/2 cup (125 ml) cold water
Food coloring or powered tempera paint
Directions: Put cold water into a bowl, add soap flakes, and beat with a
mixer until stiff (the consisitency of beaten egg whites) Add food color or
powered paint; beat thoroughly.
Squeeze Bottle Paint
Flour
Salt
Poster Paint
Plastic squeeze bottles
Directions: Mix equal parts of flour and salt. Add paint to form a paste.
Pour into plastic squeeze bottles. Squeeze paint onto heavy paper or
cardboard.
DRYER LINT CLAY
Tear up 2 cups firmly packed dryer lint into little bits. Mix in a bowl with
1/3 cup warm water, 6 tablespoons white glue, and 1 tablespoon clear
dishwashing liquid. Knead until workable. Make things. Let them dry for
several days.
Lint Modeling
Materials:
3 cups drier lint
1 cups cold or warm water
2/3 cups flour
3 drops oil of cloves, optional
old newspapers, saucepan, boxes, bottles, balloons or other objects to mold
Process
stir lint and water in saucepan
add flour and stir to prevent lumps
add oil of cloves to keep recipe *fresh*
cook over low heat and stir until mixture forms peaks
pour out and cool on newspapers
shape over boxes, bottles, balloons or press into a mold
or use like papier mache
Hints:
makes 4 cups
dries in 3 to 5 days
is very hard and durable
dries smooth if pressed into a mold
dries rougher is shaped over an object.
2 cups of sand
1 cup of cornstartch
1 cup of water
newspaper
mix sand, cornstarch and water in an old pot. stir all the time over a low
heat when mixture thickens, remove from stove and let it cool. turn it out
on newspaper and mold it into a castle or any other shape. ( I made this at
summer school and doubled the recipe each time and had enough for 5 kids to
make insects)
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Magi
Dorothy Sacks
paste them back in when someone else needs them and print them out
when I need them. Some came from websites, but most came from the
three preschool mailrings where people share everything that anyone cares
to ask about.
Dorothy
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kids at some point again. I don't know, though... it might be too "young" for
my middle school group... regular playdough was.
Magi
Dorothy Sacks
because it essentially changes state from solid to liquid
as you play with it. You can take a strawberry basket and
suspend it above a table and watch the *substance*
drip out. Great discussion of what is happening as
the flow changes.
Dorothy
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