Make your own Play dough!
Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Indoor Crafts
Everyone loves messing around with play dough! It’s so fun to create interesting looking sculptures. Moreover, its even more fun if its homemade play dough!
Here we have both a non-edible version of play dough and an edible version! Do not confuse the two.
Nonedible play dough
You will need:
- Bowl
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup salt
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- ¾ cups water
- Food coloring
- Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl
- Add the oil and a few drops of the food coloring to the water
- Pour the water mixture slowly into the flour mixture, kneading with your hands until it becomes soft and doughy
- Make anything you want with your play dough! Use this time to make some fun projects with family and friends
- You can dry your projects in a 250 degree oven for 1 ½ to 2 hours. Or you can let them air dry. When the play dough is dry, decorate the clay with poster or acrylic paints.
Edible Play dough
Who wouldn’t want to have their cake and eat it too. In this case, you can make a fun and cool looking play dough sculpture and then eat it!
You will need:
- Bowl
- 2 cups powdered dry milk
- 2 cups sooth peanut butter
- 1 cup homey
- mix the ingredients together in a bowl and stir until well blended.
- make projects for your family and friends or create interesting edible party favors
- projects can be decorated with raisons, shredded coconut, or other treats. These projects cannot be saved. They are made to be eaten! So don’t get to attached to the creation