Fun Recipes
Play Dough
Ingredients:
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups salt
6 tsp. Cream of Tartar
3 cups cool water
3 Tbsp. vegetable oil
Food Coloring (optional)
Mix dry ingredients in a large cooking pot. Mix wet ingredients in a bowl; blend well. Combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients and cook over medium heat. Be sure to stir constantly. Remove from heat when dough begins to pull away from the sides of the pot and can be pinched without sticking. Turn dough onto the counter or cooking board and knead until smooth consistency. Store in an airtight container.
Slime and Floam
Ingredients:
1 Tbsp. Borax
1 Cup water
1/4 cup white glue
1/4 cup water
1 ziploc bag
Food coloring (optional)
Styrofoam beads (for floam only)
Dissolve 1 Tbsp. borax completely in 1 cup water. In a separate bowl, mix 1/4 cup white glue and 1/4 cup water. Mix equal parts of borax solution to equal parts of glue solution in zip loc bag. (1/2 cup of each = 1 cup slime). Add a few drops of food coloring. Seal bag and knead by hand. To make floam, add styrofoam beads to the mixture.
Silly Putty
Ingredients:
2 cups white glue
1 cup liquid starch
Mix ingredients together and let the mixture dry until workable. If mixture sticks to your fingers, add more starch; if the mixture does not stick to itself add more glue. Store in an airtight container.
Bubbles
Ingredients:
Dawn Original dishwashing soap – 1 cup
Water – 12 cups
Glycerin – 1 Tbsp.
Mix ingredients together. Leave the solution standing for a few hours, overnight if possible.