I found a great play dough recipe at Simply Moms and Friends.
The original recipeI found calls for 1 cup corn starch to 1/2 cup cheap hair conditioner with a few drops of food coloring.
I used a pomegranate and grapeseed VO5 conditioner. It smelled so good. Since my conditioner was pink it gave my dough a pink hint of color, so I skipped the food coloring to make the whole project a little simpler.
As we measured out our corn starch and conditioners I took the opportunity to discuss a whole and a half. When I first started mixed I got scared I had a gooey mess. So added some extra corn starch till I got a consistency we liked. I think if I had just kept mixing it at first I would have eventually gotten a nice fluffy consistency. I kept it a little on the dry crumbly side, DD was using the dough with some cars to drive through. I think our measurements were closer to 1 cup corn starch to 1/4 cup conditioner. DD had a ball playing with her cars in it. She loved making tire tracks through it and squeeze it in her hands. She got some great fine motor time in with it.
Oh I will have to try this out for my two. Sounds easy enough. Playdoh can be expensive so this is a great alternative. Thank you so much for linking up to Share With Me #sharewithme
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant! Definitely going to give it a go. Thanks for sharing.
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