If any of you are thinking of making play-doh with your kiddo, I can't recommend it highly enough. The pouring! The stirring! The squishing! The end result - play-doh that is totally soft enough for them to roll flat all on their own (I don't know about your kid, but all mine wants to do is roll it and use cookie-cutters. We haven't really moved on to 3-D design, yet.) It's wonderful. It's magic. It's an entire day's worth of fun.
Here is the recipe we used...
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups salt
1/4 cup oil
1 cup water (mix food coloring w/ water before adding it to flour mixture)
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Get kid to knead with hands until smooth. Create. Play. Enjoy.
Quick note (and probably unnecessary - most of you will no doubt go "no DUH" to this, but if it spares just one toddler the disappointment mine felt this morning, then this admission is worth it...) Whole wheat flour? Not a good idea. Purple? Not so much. More like the color of dirty grout, with lots of big brown flecks. Jaynie was unimpressed. Jonas thought it was delish, if a little salty.
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