Dough Recipies

Baking Dough by the Batch

Make a batch of baking dough with this recipe.

2 cups flour
1 cup salt
water

Mix enough water with the dry ingredients to make a dough. After children create their masterpieces, bake the dough at 300° for about an hour - longer if the object is thick.

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Homemade Play Dough

Homemade play dough works as well as the expansive brand from toy stores.

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
food coloring

Mix the dry ingredients then add the remianing ingredients and stir. In a heavy skillet, cook the mixture for two to three mnutes stirring frequently.

Knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Stir up several colors and store them in icing tubs.
-Nancy Dunaway, Forrest City, AR

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No-Cook Modeling Dough

No pots or pans are required for this concoction.

2 cups flour
1 cup salt
water
food coloring or tempera paint
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (optional)

Mix the ingredients. Add oil unless you want the dough artwork to harden.
-Bonnie Pinkerton, Bowling Green, KY

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Nutty Putty

Youngsters love to play with this dough and then eat it!

3 1/2 cups peanut butter
4 cups powdered sugar
3 1/2 cups corn syrup or honey
4 cups powdered milk
chocolate chips (optional)

Mix the ingredients. Divide into 15-20 portions and refrigerate in plastic bags. After washing their hands, have children mold and shape the dough on waxed paper. Provide chocolate chips to be used as decorations, if desired.
-Judy Peterson, Delta, UT

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Playdough

1 1/2 cup flour (not self-rising)
1 cup salt
1 tablespoon powdered alum
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup boiling water
food coloring

Mix ingredients.

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Paint Recipies

Corn Syrup Paint

Add food coloring to light corn syrup for a beautiful paint with an interesting texture.

Mix up a cup of blue, yellow and red, and put a spoonful of each on a paper plate for each student.
Students paint their plates with the colors. Allow five days drying time.
Have each student trace a design onto the bottom of his/her plate and cut out the design.
-Judy Peterson, Delta, UT

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Dazzling Tempera Paints

If you want brighter colors, paint that doesn't run when used at the easel, and easy cleanup, use the following recipe:

2 cups dry tempera paint
1 cup liquid soap (clear or white works best)
1 cup liquid starch

Mix the paint and soap then add starch and stir. If the mixture becomes too thick, add more liquid soap. Don't add water. Store the paint mixture in one-pound coffee cans with plastic lids.
-Delores Camilotto, Ford du Lac, WI

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Soap Flakes Fingerpaint

Out of fingerpaint? Try this recipe for a homemade variety

1 1/2 cups dry laundry starch
1 1/2 cups soap flakes
1 quart boilign water
cold water
food coloring or tempera paint

Mix starch with enough cold water to make a paste.
Add boiling water and stir until clear.
Cool and add soap flakes and coloring.
Store in a tightly sealed container.
-Judy Peterson, Delta, UT

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Soapsuds Paint

1 cup powdered detergent
4 tablespoons liquid starch
food coloring

Mix with a beater like frosting.

Pasta Recipies

Dyeing Pasta

Food coloring
Rubbing Alcohol
Large ziploc bags
Pasta

Place 2 tablespoons of rubbing alcohol and a desired amount of food coloring in a large ziploc bag.
Fill 3/4 of the bag with pasta then carefully seal the bag.

Gently shake the bag until the pasta is dyed to your liking. Remove the pasta from the bag and spread on wax paper to dry.

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Paste Recipe

1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon powdered alum
1/2 cup cold water
2 cups boiling wate
1/4 teaspoon oil of wintergreen (to preserve for later use)

Mix ingredients and store in air tight jars.

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