Henry is on a huge layDoh kick lately.
He wanted to play with PlayDoh.
Grandma’s PlayDoh had gotten kind of hard and crumbly.
So we set off to make our own.
I’ve seen many of you guys doing this.
I, honestly, thought it would be way too much work and didn’t want to bother with it.
[I've made PlayDoh before, but I was a child...]
We dug out an old recipe out of an old church cookbook.
My mom submitted the recipe long ago.
[The recipe we used is at the end of this post.]
It took only a few minutes to make.
With the exception of Alum,
everything is something I would have on hand.
[Luckily, my mom did, probably leftover from long ago when we last made PlayDoh]
Granted, Henry didn’t get in on making the PlayDoh.
But he did enjoy the outcome.
This Homemade PlayDoh is so soft and pliable,
Henry was able to do so much more with it compared to the store bought stuff.
Take a look at these tracks!
Let’s see what else that made some neat impressions:
The first thing he tried:
His tractors and machinery.
[what else would it be?]
The tracks made by the chisel were very distinguished.
[With the store bought PlayDoh, this would have been nearly impossible!]
Then my Mom started handing him some kitchen utensils.
A ‘slotted’ spoon:
The slots made a flower when Henry pressed it into the PlayDoh.
A wiskmade lots of lines when Henry rolled it:
A flipper (spatula) made fun for turning the PlayDoh over and over:
Other tools Henry tried?
A regular spatula, a fingernail brush, and some mardi gras beads!
They all left their own individual marks.
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Homemade PlayDoh
1 cup water
1 cup flour
1 Tbsp oil
1 Tbsp alum
1/2 cup salt
Vanilla
Food coloring
Mix all dry ingredients together in sauce pan. Add oil and water. Cook over medium heat, stir constantly, until it reaches the consistency of mashed potatoes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and food coloring. Store in an air tight container.
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Here are some other variations for PlayDoh:
A Playdoh Recipe using Cream of Tartar by A Bit of This and A Bit of That
Chocolate PlayDoh used by Chasing Cheerios
Gluten-Free PlayDoh found at No Time For FlashCards
Kool-Aid PlayDoh by Meet The Dubiens
Lots of variations of Regular and Salt PlayDoh are found at The Imagination Tree
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Love the tracks in the play dough! We need to do this!!
Some times simple things I never think to do!! This could be "Green" play dough for Earth Day coming up!
I enjoy your blog too! It does become blur! Have a fun day with play dough!
Homemade play dough is the best! Yours is also a lovely shade of green – love it! =)
Yes, homemade play-doh is the best!! I love all of the different items you guys experimented with, so fun, we are going to try this soon! TFS
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WE looooove homemade playdoh – it's a hundred times better than the store-bought stuff (and I honestly never thought I'd say that until I tried it)! We always do non-cook so that Princess Pea can make it herself (well, with my help, of course!) We've also found that making play-doh is a great playdate activity – especially when you've inadvertently invited all the siblings along too and suddenly have way too many kids running around wild in your house! Great way to focus them on one activity in one place
Wonderful tracks Henry made! I love how he's so intent on what he's doing!
Our play dough was almost the same exact color green! What a fun color, and homemade play dough is sooo soft, I love it!
I´m sorry , I do not know what lum is???? is it a comercial name?
Thanks for your help!!! I am a preschool teacher and I woul love to make Play Dho!!!
Its alum. Its a ‘spice’ I guess. Found with all the other spices in your grocery store.
Amongst other things, ALUM is a chemical compound can be used as a non-toxic preservative…see wiki article below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum
Happy playing – my girls and I love this playdoh – it entertains for hours
I have also varied the sensory inputs by playing around with different flavours/smells by substituting the vanilla essence for lemon, coconut, orange, rose, strawberry etc – and picking a colour to match the flavour.