Rainy day. Bored children. Playdough!
1 cup flour
1 cup water
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 cup salt
dessert spoon sunflower oil (or similar)
food colouring
Mix 'em all together on a low heat. Stir til it goes solid, then take it out and knead it a little to toughen it up. I recommend adding the food colouring during cooking, it's less messy, but if you want two colours, do seperate batches - the alternative is to poke holes in the finished playdough, pour in the colouring and gingerly knead - but you get stained hands and possibly surfaces.
It keeps well in a plastic bag in the fridge.
I love playdough.
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But what does it taste like?
Hee, very salty - but not enough to stop the baby eating it, apparently :(
FUN!
NO, Lottie, don't even think about it! Back to work!
Spoil Sport!
Really god idea though.
I used to do this for my kids too! We only ever had it in green because that was the only food colouring I ever had in for some reason, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the Play-Do you buy.
Another thing I did was make gak with cornflour and water. If you get the proportions right - easy to do just by adding more conrnflour - it turns into this wieard stuff that's a solid on the bottom of the plate, but when you pick it up it goes all lighidy and wierd. I love that stuff. Ithink I liked playing with it more than the girls.
So will I get it if I just mess around with proportions? That sounds fun.
Mala!
Sniff! Plasticene...
It's not the same as Playdough though.
Where does the name mala come from? Is it from 'maul'?
not a clue, just from bosco is all I remember!
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