Play dough

At last it is raining. Apologies if that sounds insensitive to any one who has experienced flooding. I know that it has caused devastation to many. We have just had a drought and hosepan ban. Every day it takes a couple of hours to water our steep garden and so it is a welcome relief today. However, my little grandson is coming. I therefore made some playdough to keep him occupied inside.

A lot of recipes have cream of tarter in them. I remember cooking play dough in a pan when my children were younger. Thankfully I found a recipe on the Good Food website that I could make quickly with what I had in the store cupboard. It didn’t involve cooking, either. I didn’t have long before he arrived early this morning.

I used half the recipe (the weights I used are listed) for each colour. My baking ingredients are precious on our low budget and so I just made two colours, blue and yellow. When made, I mixed a bit of the two colours together and made green.  This gave him 3. If I had made red as well I could have made purple and orange. He already had an orange small tub and so I didn’t  bother.

Ingredients

4 tbsp plain flour

1 salt

30ml warm water

1 few drops of food colouring

1/2 thsp oil

Method

1. In a bowl put in the salt and the flour. Mix well together.

2. In a cup or jug put the water, food colouring and oil together and mix.

3. Pour the water mixture in to the dry ingredients. Mix and knead for a minute. If the mixture is too wet just add a little bit more salt and flour.

4. Store in a plastic bag or little tub.

I am not sure how well this stores as I only made it today, but I will update the post later. My grandson loved playing with it. I just gave him a rolling pin and some little cutters.

This was a cheap way to keep him entertained, and I know that the playdough is non toxic and has no hidden ingredients. If it stores ok I will make him a red one for next week when I have more time.