How to Make Play Dough at Home

How to Make Play Dough at Home2 How to Make Play Dough at Home Preparing play dough at home is very easy to make and also easy to store. There are a certain things which are needed before getting started with it. They are as follows:

1 ½ cups of flour
½ cup salt
1 cup water
1 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons cream of tarter
Food coloring

After having assembled all these stuff, we can get down with the act of preparing play dough at home. Let’s have a look at the step by step guide given below:

Mix flour, salt, water, cream of tarter and vegetable oil in a saucepan and then put it over medium heat. You will need to stir until all the ingredients mix together. This process should roughly take 5minutes.
After this, you have your play dough ready. It might be a bit runny until it cools. But if you notice that it is still runny after cooling then add more flour.
You can involve your kids in this process and let them enjoy the pride of preparing something themselves. Incase you need to flatten the dough, then use rolling pins and if you have cookie cutters, then use them to get attractive shapes of the play dough.
You can always dye your play dough with attractive colors like red, blue or orange. Let the kids choose the colors of the play dough they want to play with. This process initiates learning within kids about color identification.
Storing this play dough that you have prepared is not that tough. Use zip lock packs or air tight containers to store the play dough in the fridge. It can be stored for about 2 weeks.