Perfect Play Dough

You will never buy store bought playdough again with this easy recipe. There are so many variations you can do when it come to color, scent, texture and appearance. Get your kids busy and make some play dough today!

Here's what you need:
Large saucepan
2 cups water
1/2 cup salt
1/2 tsp food coloring
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 cups flour
2 tbsp cream of tartar

Here's how you make it:
1. In the saucepan, mix the water, salt and food coloring together.
2. Place the saucepan on the stove burner and boil the mixture on high for 1 minute. Stir mixture until salt dissolves.
3. Remove saucepan from stove and add oil, flour and cream of tartar.
4. Once dough is cool enough to touch, knead for 5 mins.
5. Store in a ziplock bag.

Tips and Tricks:
To make a creature you can try to stick spaghetti into dough and you have a porcupine.

Alternate recipes:
Gingerbread- add 4 tsp ginger, 2 tsp nutmeg, 2tsp clove, 2tbsp cinnamon
Vanilla bean- add 1 tbsp vanilla
Apple pie - 2 tbsp cinnamon, red food coloring

Sand Sculpting Clay

Ok here we gooooo...... This little project was super easy and quick to make. Feels quite similar to play-doh and even molds easily. Now lets see what kind of creations our little ones come up with. Feel free to add a picture of your creations at the bottom.

Sand Sculpting Clay
This sandy clay can be molded and dried to make a permanent, stonelike creation.

Here's what you need:
Old saucepan or pot
2 cups fine, dry sandbox sand or beach sand
1 cup of cornstarch
Mixing spoon

1 1/2 cups of hot water

Oven mitt
Baking sheet lined with wax paper or aluminium foil

Here's how you make it:
1. In an old saucepan or pot, mix the sand and cornstarch with a spoon. (Don't use a good saucepan or pot because the sand will scratch it.)
2. Add the hot water and stir.
3. Place sauce pan on the stove burner. Heat the mixture on medium, stirring it constantly until it's like thick mashed potatoes and is difficult to stir.
4. Remove saucepan from heat.

5. Pour onto baking sheet and let cool until it's ok to handle.

6. Soak saucepan and spoon immediately.

Here's how you use it:

1. Mold the clay into any shape you wish

2. If you want to make a creation permanent, let it dry in a warm place or on a sunny windowsill. A large creation may take several days to dry completely.

Here's how you store it:
Can be stored in a plastic bag for a few days. Will start to get hard if left too long.

Happy creating!