Introduction: DIY Kool-Aid Play Dough

About: In a valiant attempt to keep myself from dying of boredom, I create.
Sometime you just need something fun for grandkids, (or children) to play with.  Don’t get me wrong, I have lots of toys in the grandkids room, but sometimes you just have to pull out the BIG GUNS.   Whenever I pull out play dough, I have very happy kids for a very long time (usually close to 2 hours).  When the play dough smells fruity it’s even better.  This is a basic recipe I have used a lot.  Adding a package of unflavored Kool-Aid has made it even better.  So, here how to make a batch of fruit fragranced play dough.

Step 1:

Ingredients:
1cup (144 g) flour
1 cup (230g) water
2 tsp. (5 g) Cream of Tartar
1/3 cup (104g) salt
1 Tbs. (10g) vegetable oil
1 package unsweetened Kool-Aid (any color you want, I use what I had)
Nonstick cooking spray (not shown)

Supplies:
Sauce pan
Rubber spatula

Step 2:

I n the sauce pan put the flour,

Step 3:

salt,

Step 4:

Cream of Tartar,

Step 5:

vegetable oil,

Step 6:

Kool-Aid

Step 7:

and water.

Step 8:

Stir.

Step 9:

Spay an area of the counter top with nonstick cooking spray.

Step 10:

Turn the stove on to medium heat and cook the mixture, stirring constantly

Step 11:

until it becomes a solid ball. 

Step 12:

Dump the dough onto the sprayed counter top and after greasing your hands (so that the hot dough won’t stick to your hands)

Step 13:

knead the dough until it becomes a smooth ball and had lost most of its heat.  Done.  Store it in an air tight container. 

Step 14:

This recipe makes 1 ¾ cup or (492g) of dough. 

Step 15:

If you are providing more than one child with play dough, you may want to make more than one batch.  I figure that it only costs about $.75 a batch (depending on how much you spend of the Cream of Tartar), and 1 batch = 2-3 cans of the stuff you can buy at the store.  Not bad.  Enjoy
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