Thrifty Thursday: Mix Up Your Playdough

You don't need fancy gadgets, rollers, cutters and toys to play with your playdough. While all those things are fun, sometimes kids want to change it up and make something different and it doesn't have to cost you extra, look at what you have in your home. For our Preschool at Home Theme of Monsters we made monster playdough using googly eyes (you've hear me mention how much I love those!) and when he was done we took out the googly eyes and will use them on other projects.

For an upcoming preschool at home theme on dinosaurs we will be making dinosaurs tracks with his plastic dinosaurs in playdough.

Also - save yourself some money and make yourself a big batch of playdough. I have a ton of different recipes for playdough on my blog.

Thrifty Thursday: Make Your Own Playdough

If you have kids, chances are that they enjoy playing with play dough. And you also know that very quickly those little tubs of color can become a mass of gray and less fun to play with than a variety of colors. I know it only cost about $3 for 4 little tubs of play-doh, but you can get 5 pounds of flour and a whole container of salt for about $2 (that's a lot of play dough!)

Basic Play-dough

1 C water
1/2 C salt
food coloring
2 T cooking oil
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
2 1/2 C white flour
Boil water, stir in salt. Add food coloring and mix. Add cooking oil, cream of tartar & flour and stir with spoon until mixed. Knead dough to finish mixing dough to get a consistent color.

Check out all my Play Dough Recipes:

• Kool Aid Play Dough (this one is my favorite!)
• Candy Cane Play Dough
• Cinnamon Play Dough
• Coffee Grounds Play Dough
• Snow Play Dough
• All Natural Play Clay