make your own play doh

Making play dough is quite simple and quick. To make a portion of basic play dough, you'll need the following ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 cup of plain flour
½ cup of salt
2 tbsps cream of tartar
2 tbsps vegetable oil
A selection of food colourings


To make your play dough, you'll first need to find a saucepan, and mix in the flour, salt and cream of tartar together. Make a small well in the middle of the dry ingredients, and then carefully pour in the water, mixing in to create a smooth consistency. At this point you can then add in a few drops of your chosen food colouring, as well as the 2 tablespoons of oil, making sure that all ingredients are consistently combined.


The mixture will then need to be transferred onto a medium heat, during which time it will require constant stirring. If you don't stir the mixture enough or have the temperature up too high, the dough will burn easily.


You will notice that the dough eventually starts to 'ball', although it may be a bit sticky. However, once the dough has contracted from the sides of the pan and balled, you can then remove it from the heat and leave to for up to half an hour.


After this time, the dough will be ready for use! Of course, if you want lots of different play dough colours, you'll need to make several batches of dough and add different food colourings each time (taking care to clean the saucepan out each time, to reduce cross colour contamination!). If you are planning on making a variety of coloured doughs, then it might be an idea to cut the quantities in the recipe above in half.

thanks might have a go at it

its great fun making it ive made it a few times with my kdis over the years the funniest was when my youngets tryed to eat it didnt stay in his mouth to long i can assure u of that always great messy play x

at least theres nothing in it that can course any harm

yh luckly x