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(1) #12-cup Flour
(1) #6 cup of Salt
(1½) #1 cup of Cream of Tartar
(1) #12 cup of Water
(1½) #1 Vegetable Oil
Drops of Food Coloring (or Kool-Aid packet for color & scent: not yellow
Mix dry ingredients in a medium-sized pot.
Mix wet ingredients in a small bowl.
Stir wet mixture into dry mixture. Add more food coloring as desired.

ADULTS ONLY: Stir over medium heat until mixture has the consistency of dough. Let cool to room temperature before playing.
Store your dough in the refrigerator in air-tight containers or zip lock bags up to one month!

Thanks for allowing me to share...

I also have found using paint powder to make the color vibrant and add glitter which makes it purty or confetti for white playday to make it interesting.

For those of you that have children who have developmental delays...try adding small beads and having the childern pinch the dough to locate the beads. Mind you...you will need to carefully supervise them to avoid them putting the items in their mouths.

I bring this up because in addition to being a homecare provider and educational consultant...I am the proud parent of a child with autism.

I accept special needs children only because I have a background in dealing with them. I have only one so far, but it worked out great for everyone involved.

Here is some more recipe on Dough!!
Oatmeal Dough
1 C. Flour
2. C. Oatmeal
1 C. Water

Preparation:
Gradually add water to flour and oatmeal in bowl. Kneed until mixed (this dough is sticky, but unique in texture. Model as with clay. VARIATIONS: Add cornmeal in small quantity for texture, Add coffee grounds in small quantity for texture.

Frosting Dough
1 Can Frosting Mix
1 1/2 C. Powdered Sugar
1 C. Peanut Butter
Spoon & Bowl

Mix all ingredients in bowl with spoon. knead into workable dough. Model as with any dough.

Nutty Butter Playdough
1 C. Peanut butter
1 C. Powdered Milk
1 C. Honey
1 C. Oatmeal

Mix together and play and/or eat.

Playdough
2 1/2 C. Flour
1 Tbl Alum
1/2 C. Salt
3 Tbl Vegetable oil
2 C. Boiling Water
1 Pkg Unsweetened Kool-aid

Combine Flour, Alum, Salt, add Oil, Boiling Water. Stir or kneed to mix. Add food coloring or before liquids, add a package of unsweetened Kool-aid for color and scent.

Peanut Butter Play-dough
Recipe One
Materials: 1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup liquid honey, 1 cup powdered milk, 1 cup rolled oats. Mix together and use.

Recipe Two
Materials: 1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup white corn syrup, 1 cup powdered sugar, 3 cups powdered milk In a large bowl, mix peanut butter, corn syrup, and powdered sugar together. Add powdered milk and knead until smooth. (Add more powdered milk if you need to.) The children can mold dough into any shape they wish.

Additions: provide children with various decorating materials, (raisins, chocolate chips, raspberry chips, butterscotch chips, shredded coconut, dried fruit, pretzels, smarties etc.)

Coffee Dough

4 c Unsifted all-purpose four
1 c Salt
1/4 c Instant coffee
1 1/2 c Warm water

1. Dissolve the coffee in the warm water.
2. In another bowl, mix the flour and the salt.
3. Make a hole in this and add 1 cup of the coffee water into it.
4. Mix with a fork or hands until smooth.
5. Add more coffee water if needed: dough should be smooth and satiny, not sticky or crumbly. Store in a plastic bag to prevent drying of the dough. Bake finished designs in a 300 degree oven for 1 hour or more (until hard). Add 2 coats of shellac to preserve.

Thanks for the wonderful variations...I will be sharing them with my friends who have children who need additions to their sensory diet. The various textures will be greatly apprceciated by all who know!

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!

Rubbery Playdough

2 cups baking soda
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup cornstarch

Mix with a fork until smooth. Boil over medium heat until thick. Spoon onto plate or wax paper.



Nature's Playdough

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
2 T oil
2 T cream of tartar
beet, spinach, and carrot juice

Mix flour, salt and oil, and slowly add the water. Cook over medium heat, stirring until dough becomes stiff. Turn out onto wax paper and let cool. Knead the dough with your hands until of proper consistency. Use as is, or divide into balls and add a few drops of the vegetable juices to make green, pink, and orange.




Play dough

4 cups flour
1/4 cup powdered tempera
1/4 cup salt
1 1/2 cups water
1 T oil

Mix together flour, powdered paint and salt.

Kool-Aid Play Dough

The children will love the smell of this playdough!

2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup salt
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 cups boiling water
2 packages unsweetened Kool-Aid

Mix dry ingredients. Add oil and water. Wearing gloves, knead for 10 minutes. Store in zip lock bag in refrigerator.

Notes:

1. Your hands may smell of the Kool-Aid flavor even with gloves.
2. Kool-Aid is a powdered drink mix sold in North America. Parents just add sugar and water to make the drink. The powder has both flavoring and color which makes it great for this craft.

Gingerbread Playdough

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 cup water
1 tsp. veg. oil
lots of cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, whatever!
(the recipe called for food coloring, red and green to make brown, but I didn't need any after I threw in my spices.)

DIRECTIONS:
Mix the dry ingredients. Play with the spices till you get the scent you want and the color. Mix water and oil together first and THEN add them to the dry ingredients and stir. In a pot, cook the mixture for two to three minutes, stirring frequently. The dough will start to pull away from the sides of the pan and clump together. Take the dough out of the pan and knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Allow to cool and store in an air tight container.

Wow I am going to try this for Christmas Holiday. The girls would love this. Thanks for the recipe.

This would be a great ornament because it will make the house smell like gingerbread. Do you think I can dry this over night and it will get hard or do you think I will need to cook it? I have gingerbread cooki cutter. It would look beautiful on my trees with stings of popcorn and cranberries. So tell me what you think?

I don't know why it wouldn't make a great ornament .. I would put the oven on low and dry them out slow ... or in a food dehydrator ..

- idea baggie up balls of the Gingerbread play dough ...
put in a already stamped up bag and tie close with ribbons .. give for a gift .. would be a nice gift for the kids to give to friends or neighbor kids. To and From tag can be made from a ginger bread man cookie cutter traced onto paper

I don't know why it wouldn't make a great ornament .. I would put the oven on low and dry them out slow ... or in a food dehydrator ..

- idea baggie up balls of the Gingerbread play dough ...
put in a already stamped up bag and tie close with ribbons .. give for a gift .. would be a nice gift for the kids to give to friends or neighbor kids. To and From tag can be made from a ginger bread man cookie cutter traced onto paper

Ok deborah I finally used the gingerbread playdough to make my ornaments. It took two days to dry on it own and they turn out cute and smell good. You will notice in the pictures that is looks like powder sugar sprinkled on them when it is fully dried that is how they turned out.