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Step by Step Instructions
Materials:
1 Cup Flour
1/2 Cup Salt
4 Tablespoons Cream of Tartar
2 Cups Boiling Water
2 Tablespoons Cooking Oil
Food Coloring
How to Make: Play Dough
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Making your own homeschool craft resources not only saves you money, it can be a learning experience
as well!  Children love the hands on experience that comes with each of these different recipes and enjoy
learning about the different ingredients of some of the familiar products they use everyday.
Step 1
First mix your dry ingredients in a bowl
(You can double or triple this recipe
to suit your needs)
Step 3
Use a spatula to bring the dough
together into a ball.    Allow your
dough to cool off, put into the fridge if
you can't wait like me.
Step 4
Add in your Food Coloring.  This is
where you get to mix it in....I'm not
going for red hands today so I'm
using my spatula to blend.
Drying Time:
As thee dough sets it will take on
more of the color of the dye.  Store it
in an airtight container.
Step 2
Pour in your oil and your boiling
water.  TIP:  Pour it in the bowl and
you won't have a pan to clean up!
Step 5
Blend in additional colors to make
your dough just the right hue
This is a fantastic Play Dough Recipe that you can use to make so very soft and long lasting play
dough.  Best of all, you get to control the colors with the amount of food coloring you put in. This
amount of clay was made with the specific recipe.
All Done!
Time to play with your soft play
dough!  We made these fun
models
of the layers of the Earth!