DIY Kool-Aid Play Dough

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.

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

I n the sauce pan put the flour,

salt,

Cream of Tartar,

vegetable oil,

Kool-Aid

and water.

 

Stir.

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

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

until it becomes a solid ball. 

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

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

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

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