Play Dough Recipe
My mom had this play dough recipe as a clipping from my pre-school newsletter that she kept folded up in her wood recipe box under Misc. I copied it and it's stuck in the front of my recipe folder along with the Pioneer Woman Cinnamon Rolls, both of which fall out just about every time I open the binder. I'm sure it's not original, but it's the one we use too. Here it is.
Play Dough
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 cups water
4 tablespoons oil
4 TBS cream of tartar (found inexpensively in the bulk sections of health food stores usually)
Mix all ingredients in a sauce pan
Cook over low/med heat while stirring every few minutes.
It's done when it all stops being goopy and starts being doughy. Allow to cool and then knead to get it completely smooth. We add some food coloring as well, which I don't like for food but do like for play dough :)
Store in an air tight container.
We use little nesting cups that have a little embossed picture on the end as stamps, and we like to hide things in the dough to find. This one is a little plastic sheep.
At the preschool I worked at they prefered modeling wax (I'm not sure who has it, I think Nova Natural does) over play dough, since it takes more patience to warm the wax and once you do that the wax stays more 'warm' rather than 'cool'. Steiner was all about warmness with young children, that's why he encouraged young children's core (head and torso) to be warm by wearing hats and wool vests during the cooler weather, and encouraged the use of oranges, yellows, pinks, and 'peach blossom' in their surroundings.
We're quite 'un waldorf' today with our green (cool color) play dough. Heh. I'm not incredibly concerned about it, just felt like sharing the random facts that were rattling around in my brain.
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5 comments:
I'm chuckling about the wax vs. dough, pink vs. bright green comments. I think your little ones will be just fine... maybe even better off for having a mama who is relaxed enough to just have fun and love them, not worrying about making every little detail "just right."
Glad you chuckled :) I like knowing about different philosophies, I think they're interesting, but I really like having the freedom to do what we want. That's the main reason why we'll homeschool :)
I've used this recipe MANY times. It's awesome! I never cook it in a saucepan, though. I mix the flour, cr. of tartar and salt in a big bowl. Then, I boil just the water in a saucepan. Take it off and add the coloring and oil. Add this to the flour mixture and stir/knead.
Great idea! I'm going to try that next time :)
If you're worried about unnatural food coloring agents you can find natural ones at your health foods. They are nice & we've enjoyed them when we need to make cookie hearts! :)
Honey
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