Try Making Your Own Playdough!
Patricia Caskey, author of Make Your Own Playdough, Paint and Other Craft Materials, offers these great recipes for homemade playdough!
Cooked Playdough #1
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
2 cups water
2 tablespoons cooking oil
4 teaspoons cream of tartar
food coloring (optional)
glitter (optional)
Add food coloring to water it you wish to color the dough. Mix and
Heat until ingredients form a ball. Knead until smooth. Have children knead glitter into dough when cool for a cool glitter dough!
No Cook Playdough #3
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
Water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Mix all ingredients together. Leave out vegetable oil if you
want it to harden.
Printed with permission from Make Your Own Playdough, Paint and Other Craft Materials by Patricia Caskey, (c) Redleaf Press. To purchase this book, click here.
Patricia Caskey McMaster has been a teacher at Head Start in Oklahoma for over 12 years, in which she has taught both three and four year old classes. She attended both Western Oklahoma State College and Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She currently holds a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, certification in Early Childhood and a Language Arts endorsement. She is a member of both the Oklahoma Head Start Association and the National Head Start Association. She is the author of Make Your Own Playdough, Paint and Other Creative Craft Recipes. She built and manages her own website at http://www.kidschalkboard.com.
