Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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My Favorite Play Dough

Store bought play dough smells bad and is expensive. This homemade one smells

wonderful and is very cheap. Because of the salt, it will keep for a long time, too!

It needs to be it a closed container because it will dry out and turn to cement.

3 cups flour

1 cup salt

1 pkg. unsweetened Kool-Aid

1/3 cup oil

1 cup water

Mix dry ingredients in mixer bowl. Blend water and oil. Slowly add to

dry ingredients in bowl. If it is too dry, add water a teaspoon at a time

until right consistency. If too wet, add a little flour.

Star Salt Dough Magnets

½ cup salt

1 cup flour

½ cup water

Preheat oven to 250 degrees.

Mix the ingredients until a dough is formed.

Add flour if it is too sticky

Knead until soft and smooth

Roll out ¼ inch thick

Cut out star shapes and press center in with small

round cap to prepare a place to glue pictures

Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake in pre-heated over 2 hours.

Paint with acrylic paint, glue on photo, sprinkle with glitter and add any other

Decorations you want.

Glue magnet on the back, or alternately make Christmas ornaments.

Jumbo Crayons

These are especially fun for rubbing leaves

You need:

1 Cup cake tin

broken crayons

vegetable oil

toothpick

Preheat oven to 250.

Remove paper from crayons. The easiest way to do this is to slit the

paper with a knife.

Rub muffin cups with the oil.

Put four broken crayons in each cup (1/3 full)

Place in oven, watch carefully, do not let them melt completely, but

just barely start. If they melt completely the color are not as bright.

Use the toothpick to smooth them by stirring.

Let cool completely.

Tap them out of the pan.

Enjoy!!!


3 comments:

Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life said...

Wow, such a lot of great info. Put photos with the tutorals. I'm sending my daughter here, she's the Achievement Day leader in her ward.

Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life said...

Wow, such a lot of great info. Put photos with the tutorals. I'm sending my daughter here, she's the Achievement Day leader in her ward.

Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life said...

Humm. I don't know how that happened. My computer stuttered.