The One About Inori

I needed to get some homework done and desperately needed Sunshine and Chubbs to leave me in peace.

Nad brought Chubbs out to the library that day and I thought of something to keep Sunshine occupied.

With these ingredients:

I made play dough!

If you google around, you’ll find heaps of recipes for making home made play dough. McKenzie’s cream of tartar also had the recipe printed on the back! How thoughtful of them!

So I mixed the ingredients together:

Set it on medium heat.

Sunshine chose the pink food colouring.

This is how it looks like when it’s ready. It will congeal and become rubbery-ish.

QUICK, what do you think of when you see the word ‘PINK’????

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I think of  ‘elephant’.

How many of you think the same? Lol.

I made a pink elephant to test the new dough. It was great to work with!

Sunshine had fun:

So I managed to do some homework with her occupied with the pink dough. But oh! The temptations!!!!

I started to play with it too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Pardon the horrible picture. The sun goes down very early nowadays and it was dark when I took this photo.)

I also made a spastic person which reminds me of Lulu.

Just kidding.

And then I made peas in pods.

Yeah.. I had fun.

I did manage to complete my homework though…. (at 1am). T___T

Sunshine rolled some of the dough into fat strips and proudly declared, “Mummy it looks like poo poo!!”

Funny little woman, that girl….

I also gave her a plastic knife and spoon so she could practice her motor skills, cutting strips into tiny pieces. She puts them in her toy teacups and pretends that she’s cooking. (Please supervise your kid when they handle knives! Plastic or not!)

Because I’m nice, I’m going to list here the recipe for the dough:

- 1 cup plain flour
- 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1/2 cup salt
- few drops of food colouring
- 1 cup water

Mix all ingredients into a pot and put over medium heat. Stir until mixture congeals. Bring it off the heat and leave to cool. Err.. then you play with it.

There you have it – safe, cheap, homemade play dough for your little kid/s!

However safe it may be though, I don’t reckon you should encourage any child to eat it. :S   Chubbs isn’t allowed to play with it as he is only interested in putting things into his mouth right now.

I store the dough in an airtight food container and it’s been keeping well for 3 days so far. I reckon, like PlayDoh (the ones you buy in stores), it would dry up over time and all you have to do is to moisten it with some water.

Or make more in another colour.