How to Make Home-made Play Dough

Home made Play Dough How to Make Home made Play Dough Do you want to keep your child busy with some fun activity that you can create yourself? Well, try making play dough. You can make colorful play dough and allow your child to make different and interesting shapes with that dough. Apart from being a fun activity, it can also develop creativity in your child.

Moreover, you can also make learning easier for your kid by showing different concepts with the play dough. An inexpensive entertainment for your kid, you can easily make play dough at home.

Let’s learn how to make home made play dough. Here are some instructions that will guide to make play dough for your child.

Instructions on How to Make play Dough

Firstly, get all the ingredients and put them in a separate ball. The ingredients for your play dough would include flour, salt, water, cream of tarter and vegetable oil. Allow your kid to mix them together with a spoon or even with their hands.
After the ingredients are hand mixed, place them in a saucepan, on the stove. Keep the heat on low to medium and stir the mixture for 5 to 7 minutes till a ball begins to form.
Now you can remove the mixture from the flame and allow it to cool. You may either allow it to cool in the saucepan itself or you may place it on aluminum foil or wax paper to avoid any mess.
Properly knead the mixture. At this point you can add some food color to the mixture in order to make it more attractive and interesting for your kid. Continue to knead it till it attains pliable consistency and is not too sticky. If you want to use different colors for the dough, then divide it into pieces and add different colors to each piece.
Now roll them into balls and save them in airtight containers. Your play dough is ready now. While playing with it you can cut out different shapes with cutters, and make interesting models for your kid.

Tips

If you want you can also add a tablespoon of alum to the mixture. It will make the dough less palatable to a child and hence reduce the likelihood that the child might eat it. Alum is also useful because it acts as a preservative and slows down the growth of bacteria.
You can go on to add some fun ingredients to the dough to change the texture or appearance of the dough like desiccated coconut, or cocoa powder.
Also consider of giving a particular smell to the dough by using peppermint or other oils. But make sure that these smells do not tempt your child to eat the dough.
In case your dough becomes runny due to too much of water then add some more flour to it or heat it.

So, now you know how you can make an interesting fun game for your child. Try it out and you will simply love it.

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