Recipes

Heather's Play Dough		G'ma Ellen's Play Dough
KASP Fun Recipes
3 C flour 1 C salt 2 TBS Alum Mix dry ingredients together 1 1/2 C boiling water 3 TBS oil Mix wet ingredients together Combine wet and dry ingredients together and knead! Add extra flour if too sticky. You can also add food coloring for fun colors and.. add some hand lotion!		1 cup flour ½ cup salt 1 cup water (Can add food coloring to the water for even distribution or instant coffee for a brown color) 2 teaspoons cream of tarter 1 1/2 T vegetable oil Dash of vanilla or your favorite flavor or lotion (just don’t make it smell too good) Stir in glass bowl and nuke for 2 ½ minutes. Stir well, nuke more as needed, 20 seconds at a time. Knead until cool, nice and smooth and put in zip lock bag. (Be sure it is cool before you zip the bag) Will keep for weeks and weeks. (If using coffee for a brown color--sprinkle in around 1 T of cinnamon and a few sprinkles of nutmeg for color and fragrance--and to add texture you can knead in wet coffee grounds.)
Italian Play Dough		Rainbow Stew
3 cups flour 1/2 cup salt 1 T Alum 2 cups boiling water 3 T Olive Oil Optional food coloring, flavor extracts, and/or glitter Dosolve Alum in boiling water in a large glass bowl. Combine salt with 2 cups of clour and add to bowl. Add oil and food coloring to desires intensity. Add flavor extract and/or glitter, Stir well. Add remaining cup of clour. Stir well again. Put dough on floured countertop and knead a few minutes, adding more flour as necessary until dough is of a pliable consistency. Store in airtight container.		1/3 cup sugar 1 cup of corn starch 4 cups water Red, blue & yellow food coloring Ziplock sandwich bags Masking or duct tape Mix sugar, water and cornstarch in a sauce pan. Cool over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens into a glossy pudding like mix. Think lemon meringue pie filling! Let cool! Divide mixture equally into three bowls. Add a different food coloring to each bowl, stir until thoroughly mixed. Put approximately 3 TBLS of each color into a zip lock bag, zip shut and tape opening closed. Have children knead the baggie to mix the colors and create a rainbow!

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