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How to make Play Dough (salt free)

How to make Play Dough (salt free)

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Recommend for: Cognitive, Fine Motor, Baby, Toddler,

Categories: Sensory

Summary:

Play dough offers many creative possibilities and can be lots of fun for children (and adults). Parents/carers can sit down with young children and show them different ways to manipulate play dough, and encourage them to play with it themselves. Talking with the children about the texture of the play dough can assist their language development.

2 cups plain flour
½ cup oil
Food colouring
Water

Method:

Add the oil to the flour and mix thoroughly.
Mix food colouring with water.
Add and mix in enough of the water to make a soft dough.
For an extra kick you can add nutmeg or cinnamon, or food essences such as peppermint or lemon

The advantages of making a home made play dough are its texture and thickness, which you can adjust to your children’s liking, the natural ingredients, as well as the fact that the children can participate in making it.

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Laura Meaden

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Excellent recipe for salt free dough babies can eat. I used coconut oil and left it for 30mins before using. It was really smooth and the more it was used the better the texture. Using coconut oil made it smell lush and made our hands smooth after :)

Kerry

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Fab! Just what I needed for my babies first experience with playdough.

Elaine Guzma

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So simple:)

Eloise

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It got a bit dry in the middle and was wet on the outside

Erin

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Never made play doh nice and smooth very easy to make

Vannie

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If your out of salt and cream of tartar , this recipe is great . It's nice and smooth and pretty easy to work with . However you can't expect traditional play dough quality from a recipe that's missing 2 of the main ingredients in play dough .

Laura

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I made this for my students for a measurement activity on Wednesday night. It looked fine. When I went to use it on Friday, it was a ball of dough sitting in a nasty puddle of oil. Ugh. I blotted it with far too many paper towels, but it was still horrible.

Sandy

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Really easy to make. I substituted the oil with coconut lol. Felt really nice to play with and tour happy kids! Much better then using salt.

manda

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WOW, my first time making it for my 2.5yr old. He enjoyed helping mix (literally this is done in 5mins!) & is hours of play fun.
I like the no salt, as it doesn't leave your hands feeling dry & cracked.
I divided the quantity in half, & it was plenty big enough to play with. Just add ONE tablespoon of water at a time, mixing well between ea addition. I put some drops of essential oils to make it smell great. Will defiantly be making this again!

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