Homemade Fun....

I promised Paige we'd make our own playdough again when she decided to pull out the last batch that I had made over a year ago, and it was dark bluey green (not too far from the original colour actually) but covered in mould. Sick! We happened to have guests over at the time (Matt and Christine from Edmonton), and they were quite disturbed. At the time when I made the playdough Paige was too young to participate in the process, but she quite enjoyed it this time. Especially the prospect of dying it with the food colouring. I wouldn't let her do much since it involved stirring it in a pot over the stove, and then of course there's the highly dangerous dye (you should have seen my hands after). But she liked to dump the ingredients in as she does for baking. She has come to realize that baking pretty much involves the same old standard ingredients for everything. She assumed there would be sugar in the recipe. No sugar, but a ton of salt. Enough to make your hands sting a bit when playing with it. Here's the recipe if anyone is interested....

2 cups flour

2 cups water

1 cup salt

4 tbsp cream of tartar

2 tbsp oil

food colouring

Mix ingredients in a pot over medium heat stirring constantly. You will know when it's done...it will just look and feel like playdough and will be in a big ball in the middle of the pot. then take it off the heat and wait 5 minutes to mix in the food colouring. I take it out and put it on wax paper to kneed the colour into the dough.