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Hi, if you’re staying home because of the coronavirus pandemic, you’re in the right place! I’m Militza, and I’ve been teaching student how to make safe and natural homemade products for almost 10 years.
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If you know children, you’ll know that children love play-dough! Parents love it too, because it’s a simple activity that keeps little ones happily entertained!
The best kind of play-dough is homemade play-dough! It’s easy, it gets the kids involved, and with this recipe: it’s completely all natural!
Before we get started, let’s talk quickly about how we color it. There are two methods that people mostly follow:
But, after a lot of playing around in the kitchen, I have found a different method of coloring that is easy, inexpensive and completely all-natural!
Here’s what you need:
(find it in the spice section of your supermarket and health shops)
Ingredients: (for one ball of play-dough)
The first thing to do is to cook your dough. It takes just 3 minutes!
Mix all of your ingredients in a saucepan. Put over a low heat and cook until it all clumps together into a ball.
Plop it onto your workstation and knead the dough for a good minute.
While it’s still warm, get ready to add your color!
Easy! The reason why I love using dry powder is that you can make one big batch of dough, then break it up into individual balls, sprinkle each with a different color, and you’re done.
The alternative is adding color to water and cooking one color at a time…
Either way, you will have a rainbow of colors!
I know that not all of you are parents, but many of you are uncles or aunties. As a Mommy, I will tell you that kids love this and parents appreciate it! Whip up some homemade playdough, and make it a gift!
Notes:
When you try this recipe, let me know in the comments how it works out. Or post your photos to our Facebook page – I’m dying to see them!
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Fantastic Idea! I love the use of the powders! I have a few of these in the cupboard and am going to make them now. We will also try dried mustard and see how that does for a yellow color. We live in Oregon and it’s rainy as can be so this will fill up a rainy day!
Hi! We didn’t have cream of tartare so we used lemon juice instead, 3 times the amount and it worked out brilliantlly… thanks!