Play dough

There is so much scope for play dough; Exploring colours, textures, smells, imagination

My daughter loves the brightly coloured dough most of all as she's not at a stage where she is interested in smelling things yet but I will try lavender, mint and other kinds of play dough in the future. As well as glitter. 

To make a play dough session more fun I have the normal cutters but also other items such as candles, forks, buttons, goggly eyes and candles 

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When I was growing up I was never allowed to mix the play dough colours but at 75p a pot I have decided that I should ignore what I was taught! 

Have fun. 

 

Salt dough 

The dough recipe is very simple 

1 cup of flour

1/2 cup of salt

1/2 cup of water (added gradually, add more flour if gets too sticky) 

Colouring... I just used kids paint 

You can then cook the dough to set it

Method 1 

Place in oven for 3 hours on very low hea

Method 2 (recommended) 

The microwave (be aware the dough gets very hot) 

-Cook for 20 seconds

-Open door to release steam

-Repeat till 3 minutes has been reached 

When producing your creation I strongly suggest placeing it on a piece of grease prof paper while being created (it is very hard to move a materpiece onto a pkte or baking try when still soft)  

Here is a salt dough creation (it's meant to be a rainbow) 

Here is a lovely keep sake I did when my daughter was a few months old. Fished off with some gloss paint 

 http://theimaginationtree.com/2012/04/best-ever-no-cook-play-dough-recipe.html