We finally ran out of play dough a few months ago and I have been wanting to make a batch of my own. I remember making it when I was in high school for the Sunday School class that I taught. This morning however, I made some simple cooked (I’ve never made a cooked dough before) play dough. When I first began to make it, I didn’t think it was going to work out (to runny) but after a few minutes it turned into dough rather quick in the pan. After taking it off the stove and out of the pan (with rubber gloves, it was HOT!) it turned out rather nice. I like the texture, smell, and cleaning up any play dough bits stuck in hard to reach places is simple; just rinse under warm water! Also, I like that if at any point the dough begins to dry out, which happened several times. Just stop what your doing and gather all the dough in a ball and work it for a few minutes. Unlike the store bought dough, when it dries up it’s thrown away. So we’ll see…
Simple ingredients for this dough, baking soda, corn starch, and water. I cut the recipe in half because I did’t have enough baking soda which ended up making a good amount for Isabel to play with.
Loading up her shape maker for stars, circles, and crescent.
Stars to begin with.
Now it’s circles. Your hands do tend to pick up bits of dough as you play with it but that washes off very easily.
Later she made a pie with eyes. What fun!