More kitchen fun
I give you... homemade play-doh!
1 cup flour
1/4 cup salt
2 T cream of tartar
1 cup water
1 T oil
food coloring
Mix dry ingredients in a saucepan. Add water, oil, and food coloring and heat over medium heat for 3-5 minutes. When dough forms a ball in the pan, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until it's no longer sticky.
This was really a hit. The boys and I played with it for over an hour! It came out so warm and invitingly squooshy, we couldn't stop touching it. There is something really special, I think, about homemade playdoh -- it makes the commercial kind seem so stiff and unyielding. When we were done, we packed it away in tupperware, and this recipe filled a sandwich-sized container.
Amazing, though, how it always seems to come back to Cars with them...
1 cup flour
1/4 cup salt
2 T cream of tartar
1 cup water
1 T oil
food coloring
Mix dry ingredients in a saucepan. Add water, oil, and food coloring and heat over medium heat for 3-5 minutes. When dough forms a ball in the pan, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until it's no longer sticky.
This was really a hit. The boys and I played with it for over an hour! It came out so warm and invitingly squooshy, we couldn't stop touching it. There is something really special, I think, about homemade playdoh -- it makes the commercial kind seem so stiff and unyielding. When we were done, we packed it away in tupperware, and this recipe filled a sandwich-sized container.
Amazing, though, how it always seems to come back to Cars with them...
posted by Claire at 2:15 PM
3 Comments:
Cool! You can see the wheels turning in Isaac's little head when he's looking at the Play Doh! Wonder what he was thinking then?:-)
I saved your recipe so we can use it when visiting.
Love ya! - Grandma Jane (no more anonymous--sorry if that caused you concern Claire--I was frustrated cause I couldn't log on as me anymore)
I actually love the car thing because I can always toss a few in the bag and take them anywhere. I have a recipe for gingerbread playdough I'll have to dig up...or you could google. Smells yummy at the holidays...
Oh Susie, don't get me wrong... if it wasn't for Cars cars, I'm not sure we would be able to eat at restaurants. I took our whole Cars car inventory with us when we got our oil changed a month ago, and it kept them (and another little boy) busy the entire time.
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