Homemade Play Dough Recipe And More
Easy Kids Crafts
The dog days of summer are here. If it is too hot to go outside, there is a lot of fun stuff you can do inside. If you want to keep the cost down try this homemade play dough recipe from the Tightwad Twins book:
Homemade Play Dough Recipe:
Mix together -2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, ½ cup cornstarch, 1 ¼ tablespoons baking soda, 2 cups water, 1 tablespoon cooking oil and a pinch of food coloring. Microwave for about 4 minutes on high and store in an air tight plastic container.
If you don’t want worry about the kids cooking, the Tightwad Twins also have a recipe for no cook homemade play dough recipe.
No Cook Homemade Play Dough Recipe: Mix together - 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup salt and 3/8 cup hot water from faucet. Add food coloring if desired. The kids would probably have fun mixing this themselves.
My favorite recipe from their book “Saving Money with the Tightwad Twins: More Than 1,000 Practical Tips for Women on a Budget” by by Ann Fox and Susan Fox is the funky edible play dough one. These crafts you can eat and eating is one of favorite indoor and outdoor activities.
Edible Playdough
1 cup butter or margarine
6 hard cooked egg yolks, mashed
2 tsps. Cream of tarter
5 cups all purpose flour
1 cup shortening
2 ½ cups sifted powdered sugar
2 tsps. Baking soda
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
Red, yellow or green paste food coloring
Cream butter and shortening: add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks, baking soda, cream of tarter and vanilla beating well. Add flour a little at a time, mixing well. Divide the dough into 4 equal parts. Color one part red, one yellow, one green and leave the dough part plain. Wrap each part up seaparately in plastic wrap and chill at least 1 hour.
Kids can hand-shape the dough into all kinds of thing or they can roll it out and cut the dough with cookie cutters.
Bake their creations at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet a few minutes.
Basic Frosting Recipe:
Mix ¼ cup butter (softened) and ¼ cup milk. Add enough confectioners sugar to make spreadable frosting. Makes enough to frost a 9 inch layer cake.
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See a great free recipe for A Homemade Facial at Frugal Pig.com
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