Some fun recipes

Play Dough
1 ½ Cups Flour
1 ½ Cups Salt
1 Tablespoon and 1 ½ tsp. Cooking Oil
1 ½ teaspoons Cream of Tartar
1 ½ Cups Water
Food Coloring
Extract, spices, or flavored oils for scent

Combine the first 4 ingredients in an old saucepan. Cook over low heat, gradually add water. Cook and stir until the mixture forms a soft ball. Remove play-dough from pan. Add food coloring and scent to play-dough. Knead clay until it is cool. Keep in small closed container.

Other Options:
Add drops of food coloring to the 1 ½ Cups of water before gradually adding water to the saucepan. Or add a package of Kool-Aid to the water for the color and scent.

Add whatever scent you want to create to compliment the color of the play-dough (ground nutmeg, ground cloves and ground cinnamon for a pumpkin pie scent with orange coloring, peppermint oil for a candy cane scent with red or green coloring, vanilla for a cookie scent with yellow coloring etc…)

No-cook Play Dough
1 Cup Flour
½ Cup Salt
½ Cup Water
Food Coloring

Add food coloring to the water and mix the salt, flour and colored water together, kneading to form a ball. Add a little extra salt and flour if the dough is too sticky.


Stretchy Putty
1 part liquid starch
2 parts white glue
food coloring or non-toxic paint

Pour glue in bowl. Gradually add starch and color. Let stand for 5 minutes. Mix with hands until smooth and rubbery. If it is gooey, add more starch. If it is hard, add more glue. Store in airtight container in the refrigerator.