Craft Recipe’s For Kids

Pumpkin Pie Play Dough Recipe

Ingredients:

• 5 ½ cups of flour
• 8 teaspoons cream of tartar
• ¾ cups of oil
• 4 cups of water
• 1 ½ ounces of canned pumpkin pie spice
• 2 cups of salt
• orange food coloring

Directions:

• Mix all ingredients in a sauce pan.
• Cook over medium heat ‘til the mixture separates from the sides of the pan and is the consistency of dough.

Kool Aid Play-dough

This recipe is 100% edible and can be eaten + it really smells good. Whatever the color of of the Kool Aid that you use, is the color of the Play-dough. I like to make this kind when I’m working with really little ones, as they often put the clay in their mouths, this way I don’t have to worry!

Ingredients:
1 cup water
3 teaspoons of Cream of Tartar
1 cup of flour
1 package of Kool-Aid Mix (any flavor of unsweetened)
1 tablespoon of cooking oil
1/2 cup of salt

Directions: Mix dry ingredients in a large/medium pan. Add water and oil. Stir over medium heat until it looks ligh dough. This takes about 8 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 cup of boiling water
• 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar
• a half cup of salt
• 1 tablespoon of oil

Directions:

• Mix all the ingredients together.  It’s quite hot so use caution.

 Self-Hardening Clay

Ingredients:

• 1 ½  cups salt
• 4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon alum (as a preservative)
• 1 ½ cups water

Directions:

• Mix dry ingredients in a bowl then add water.
• When dough forms a ball, knead the dough, add a bit more water if it is too crumbly.
• The clay can also be baked.
• Set oven to 300º and bake for 30-40 minutes or until hard.

 Finger Paint:

• Mix 2 parts of liquid laundry starch with 1 part powdered tempera paint or a few drops of food coloring as you paint on the paper.
• Or you can mix flour and cold water into a paste.
• Add food coloring or powdered tempera paint on the paper as you paint.
• Add a pinch of powdered soap flakes (I like Ivory) to help paint glide over the paper.
• Clean up is a lot easier too.