Hmmm…seems I’m fresh out of Play-Doh puns, but I can’t let that slow me down. I only have minutes before the Little Miss wakes from her nap, and I wanted to post these pictures from yesterday.
I made Lily some homemade Play-Doh yesterday, and she had a blast playing with it.
I snapped some cute photos and just wanted to share. Because 36 pictures (131 megabytes) of Lily playing with a ball of gunk is TOTALLY necessary. Lucky for you, I managed to whittle the pictures down to fewer than 3 dozen. Yes!
On an entirely unrelated note, does anyone know why I keep running out of hard drive space? Thanks in advance for any tips!
Anyway, I really just don’t have time right now to pick the absolute best ones, so you can wade through them below if you’re so inclined. In case my mommy friends are interested in making some homemade play-doh, here’s the recipe I used. I got it from another blog, and have already lost the link, so my apologies on that. I made a 1/2 recipe, and it was plenty.
Ingredients
2 cups water
1 cup salt
4 tsp. cream of tartar
food coloring
4 tbsp. oil [I used olive oil because it was already sitting on the counter]
2 cups flour
Method
1. Combine water, salt, cream of tartar and food coloring (only use a little as it goes a long way) in a large saucepan.
2. Mix vigorously with a whisk or spoon to try and dissolve as much salt as possible. [Haha…this was practically none. I ended up heating the water a bit to dissolve more salt, and then letting it cool before I proceeded. Not sure if that helped at all or was necessary, but there you have it.]
3. Add the oil and then the flour, slowly, whisking as you go. Mix vigorously again until you get a smooth ‘slurry’ or a thick custard-like consistency.
4. Cook on low heat and stir.
5. Keep stirring the mixture until it starts looking dry and pulling away from the pan. [Okay, so I wasn’t really that patient in letting the salt water cool too much, so this took all of 30 seconds before mine was “cooked."]
Remove from heat and pinch a piece between two of your fingers. If it isn’t sticky, it is done. If it is, continue stirring over low heat for a minute more.
6. Place the dough on counter and knead until smooth.
Store in an airtight container or plastic bag. Do not refrigerate.
Note: even though this is homemade and doesn’t contain anything nasty, please ensure your child doesn’t eat this due to the very high salt content.
Lily loved pulling pieces off, stabbing it with a chopstick, cutting with a knife, giving me little pieces to hold, and squishing her fingers in it. Her favorite game was throwing balls of it that I formed for her. It actually had a nice bounce!
And now for the unnecessary Photoshop:
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Fun times, my friends. Fun times.
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