What You Need
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 cups water
2 tablespoons cooking oil
Food coloring
Food extracts, such as almond, vanilla, lemon or peppermint
Saucepan
Objects to stick in the dough, such as Popsicle sticks and straws
Objects to pound with, such as a toy mallet
Objects to make impressions with, such as jar lids, cookie cutters and
bottle caps
What to Do
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To make play dough:
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Add the food coloring
to the water. Then mix all of the ingredients together in a pan.
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Cook over medium
heat, stirring until it forms a soft ball.
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Let the mixture cool.
Knead slightly. Add food extracts to different chunks of the dough to
make different smells.
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Talk with your child about what you are doing as you
make the dough. Let your toddler or preschooler help you with measuring
and adding ingredients.
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Let your child handle
some dough while it is still slightly warm and some when it has cooled
off to teach him about temperatures.
Give some of the
dough to your toddler or preschooler so she can pound it, stick things in
it, make impressions in it and make her own animals, houses and people from
it.
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