We have been branching out lately with the play dough, so that besides making the awesome home made play dough we typically make - we are making some bizarre and wonderful stuff.
I think our favorite, by far, is the flubber. Unfortunately, I don't have the best pics at the moment, but we highly recommend trying this. It is surprising. We can play for a solid 3 hours straight with this stuff, so it is worth the expense in glue. It also lasts for at least 2 weeks if air tight.
Here is the recipe we like:
Flubber Recipe
Another new favorite is called Sand Dough. There are 2 variations, and currently we have only tried one...but look forward to the other one soon.
This sand dough recipe is really just like homemade playdough with sand in it. Dirty Dough, I suppose. I think one cool thing about it is that we can drop it on the ground, and it doesn't really get dirty, does it?
When molded it is smooth and when broken apart it has that neat wet sand texture.
This one is:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water
several drops veg oil
mix that together first and then add sand until it is what you want (1/2 to 3/4 cups).
I think we did 3/4 cups from our sand box.
The other recipe, which we have not tried yet, is:
2 cups sand
1 cup corn starch
1 cup water
1 tsp cream of tartar
mix it together and cook it over low heat until it is difficult to stir, let cool and play!
Fun stuff. I will post more recipes as we find them
Kate
