How to Make Play Dough

Materials

1. 1 cup of salt
2. 1 cup of flour
3. 1 cup of water
4. Food coloring (optional)
5. Cookie cutters
6. Rolling pin or narrow bottle

Directions

• Put salt and flour in a deep non fragile bowl.
• Drape kid/baby in smock and allow him or her to mix the dry ingredients thoroughly with hands or a wooden spoon.
• Slowly add water to which some drops of food coloring have been added.
• Continue to mix, then knead dough until it is smooth and elastic without being sticky.
• Dump the dough onto a flat floured surface and roll it out with the rolling pin or bottle.
• Use cookie cutters to make shapes or provide child with other cutting and poking utensils such as plastic knives, bottle tops and lids, chopsticks, and assorted plastic shapes

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