Edible Play dough Recipes

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

Mix dry ingredients together in a large saucepan. Slowly add water mixed with oil and stir over medium heat until mixture thickens to dough. Turn out onto a heatproof bread board or counter top and knead until cool enough for children to handle. Dough will be the color of the Kool-Aid mix and will smell like the Kool-Aid mix. (Can be stored in a tightly covered container for up to six months)

Jell-O Play Dough

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
1 tablespoon oil
2 teaspoons Cream of Tartar
1 (3-1/2 oz.) package “unsweetened” Jell-O

Mix all ingredients together and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until consistency of mashed potatoes. Let cool and knead with floured hands until dry.

Storage: This recipe needs to cool completely “before” storing it in an airtight container!

Note: The items made from this play dough recipe can be painted when they are dry.

Cautionary Note: Some of these activities contain peanut butter. If you are unsure if a child in your care is allergic to peanuts or not, do not use those recipes containing peanut butter.

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Oatmeal Play Dough

1 part flour
2 parts oatmeal
1 part water

Mix ingredients together and form into shapes.

Note: The items made from this play dough recipe can be painted when they are dry.

Cream Cheese Play Dough

8 oz. package of cream cheese
1/2 cup non-fat dry milk
1 tablespoon honey
crackers or bread slices

Combine cream cheese, milk and honey in a bowl and mix until well blended. Mold sculptures on was paper.

Storage: Unused portions MUST BE STORED in an airtight container and kept refrigerated! Because cream cheese is perishable, use the expiration date on the cream cheese package as your guide for how long you can keep this play dough.

Note: The shapes can then be placed on crackers or bread slices, decorated with edibles (celery or carrot slivers, raisins, dried fruit pieces, nuts, or seeds for a healthy snack… then eat!

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Peanut Butter/Graham Cracker Play Dough

Equal amounts of Peanut Butter and Marshmallow Cream
Graham Crackers

First, have the children wash their hands before beginning so they can safely lick their fingers during this project.

Allow children to crumble up Graham Crackers into crumbs, then set these aside. Let them have just a little touch of the Marshmallow Cream and a little touch of peanut butter to feel the different textures and to lick off their fingers.

Mix the peanut butter and Marshmallow Cream together and have the children notice the change in texture. Cover surface area with wax paper or use a breadboard, let children make into shapes. Roll shapes in Graham Cracker crumbs, then eat!

Storage: When not using, MUST be stored in an airtight container.

Peanut Butter Play Dough

one 18-oz. jar creamy peanut butter
6 tablespoons honey
3/4 cup non-fat dry milk

Mix ingredients together, using varying amounts of dry milk for desired consistencies. Knead it with fingers, forming into desired shapes, adding other foods like M&M’s or peanuts for eyes, mouths, etc. Great fun!

Storage: When not using, MUST be stored in an airtight container.

If your children are at the age of preferring to eat their art supplies while you are trying to teach them to expand their creative skills, you’ll enjoy these perfect projects!

Cautionary Note: Some of these activities contain peanut butter. If you are unsure if a child in your care is allergic to peanuts or not, do not use those recipes containing peanut butter.

PRINTING NOTE: If you prefer to print these recipes individually, please visit our Family FunBook!

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Kool-Aid Play Dough

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

Mix dry ingredients together in a large saucepan. Slowly add water mixed with oil and stir over medium heat until mixture thickens to dough. Turn out onto a heatproof bread board or counter top and knead until cool enough for children to handle. Dough will be the color of the Kool-Aid mix and will smell like the Kool-Aid mix. (Can be stored in a tightly covered container for up to six months)

Cautionary Note: Some of these activities contain peanut butter. If you are unsure if a child in your care is allergic to peanuts or not, do not use those recipes containing peanut butter.

PRINTING NOTE: If you prefer to print these recipes individually, please visit our Family FunBook!

Girl Scout Peanut Butter Play Dough

1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
2 cups powdered sugar

Mix all ingredients in a bowl, using your hands. Dough should feel soft and pliable. Form shapes and be creative!

Storage: When not using, MUST be stored in an airtight container.

Related Articles & Projects:

• Edible Crawlies for Kids
• Paper Plate Ladybugs
• Salt Dough Crafts
• Spray Painted T-shirts
• Holiday Crafts & Ideas

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Smooth Peanut Butter Play Dough

2 cups smooth peanut butter
2 cups rolled oats
2 cups dried milk
2/3 cups honey

Mix all ingredients until thoroughly combined.

Storage: When not using, MUST be stored in an airtight container

Frosting Play Dough

1 can frosting (any flavor)
1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup creamy peanut butter

Mix together until dough reaches desired consistency

Storage: When not using, MUST be stored in an airtight container and refrigerated. Next time you want to use it, let it come to room temperature for pliable dough.

Chocolate Play Dough

8 oz. semisweet chocolate
1/4 cup plus one tablespoon light corn syrup

Melt the chocolate in a metal bowl set over a pan of simmering water (a double boiler). Stir the chocolate with a spoon until smooth, then stir in the corn syrup. The chocolate will stiffen almost immediately but stir completely combined. Transfer the chocolate to a sturdy plastic bag and refrigerate until firm; the consistency will be that of Play Dough.

When firm, the dough can be worked by kneading. If it is too hard, cut off small pieces and knead until pliable. If the dough sticks to the counter when rolling, lightly spray counter or breadboard with vegetable spray or lightly grease with vegetable oil.

Hand shape the dough into a rope or braid, making two or three long ropes and twist or braid them together — can be used as the outside edge on top of a cake or around the base.

Make ribbons to cover the cake. To do this, pat your dough into a disk shape and roll dough out to desired thickness using a rolling pin or else use a manual pasta machine.

Flowers, too!

Storage: When not using, MUST be stored in an airtight container and refrigerate.

Creative Date Ideas

1. Have a romantic meal on the beach and build a sandcastle together.
2. Have a progressive meal

     Directions: Select different restaurants around town and go to each one. Order drinks at one, appetizers at another, go somewhere new for the main course, and top it off with your favorite desert in town.
               
3.Make kites and fly them

Stay at Home Date Ideas

1. Run through the sprinklers, have a waterballoon fight and make a slip n' slide.
2. Make a tent together with blankets, eat dinner inside, make mini smores with mini marshmellows, candles, chocolate chips and cinnamon toast crunch pieces, sing camp songs and tell camp stories.
3. Make food, listen to music, learn a dance, and play games from a foreign country
4. Make a music video
5. Sing Kareoke
6. Write a scene in a movie and then film each other acting it out
7.  Story time--take turns recording pieces of a story. Directions: One person starts recording a story, while the other leaves the room, ending their segment with "and then..." the other person picks up telling the next part of the story, and ends their segment with "and then..." this continues until someone decides to tell "The end".
8. Make a time capsule to put in a park or just your own backyard full of pictures and objects that represent your relationship and then dig it up for a big anniversary.
9. Have breakfast for dinner in bed

Making Art out of Nature

The other day I walked by a mother and daughter glueing different rocks, sticks, and flowers together to form a sculpture and thought it was the cutest idea. This would be a fun afternoon activity. Let your kids scavenger around for cool things in nature and then have them create something using those things. I can't wait to do it!

 

Family Olympics

Bismarck and I just thought of an idea that we would like to do with our family every Summer once our kids are old enough. We just finished watching the 2012 Olympics and thought it would be fun to do our own family olympics each summer. Some of the events could include: Wacky Six, ping pong, running, long jump, arm wrestling, Settlers of Catan, etc... We would give metals and use it as an opportunity to teach good sportsmanship. Of course before I can teach that, I have to learn it myself! Hahaha! I'm excited to do this one day!

Ello From L.A

Learning Activities

I think it would be fun to pick a topic to learn about each week in the summer with your kids. You could go to the library and check out a bunch of picture books to read. Then you could do discovery activities. For example, if your topic of the week was "bugs" you could go bug hunting outside and perhaps even collect a few. You could also make butterfly nets, do fun bug artwork, watch bugs life, and even dress up like bugs for the day and eat bug food (yummy food made to look like bug food)