simple pleasures – homemade play dough

Thanks to jennabanana’s comment on this Instructable we made a quick, no cooking required, batch of homemade play dough. Stan requested it first, but they all jumped in for some fun. 

playing with homemade play dough

Here’s her recipe:

• 3 cups flour
• 1/3 cup salt
• 2tbsp oil (veg)
• 1 cup water
• 7 drops food colouring.

1. Mix dry ingredients with oil.
2. add food colouring to water and mix together.
3. add water to flour/salt/oil mixture slowly ~ about 1/4 cup at a time and mix together with a spoon.
4. once you’ve added all the water, knead the dough with your hands.