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Insane!

Posted on July 24, 2007
Filed Under children's activities, the twinadoes |

Yesterday, to save myself from a repeat of this… they told me they were ‘camping’…


And to save the girls from impending doom if we had to go through the packing up trauma of that yet again, we made this….

Easy as pie - actually easier than pie! Done in the microwave!

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 tbsp cream of tar tar
1 tbsp oil
1 cup water.

Cook in microwave on high for five minutes, stop and stir halfway through. Allow to cool, knead with a bit of extra flour and there you have it! We added paint to ours to get the bright colours as we didn’t have any food colouring.

It turns out very much like the really good long lasting cooked dough you do on the stove but was MUCH much easier.. no stirring till your arm breaks and watching so it doesn’t burn. It only makes a small amount, so perfect to make two batches so everyone could have the colour they wanted and get to stir etc. It did make a mess of the containers we did it in… lots of rock hard dough stuck to the sides which needed hours of soaking to get off, but they are fine now. Remains to be seen how it keeps but it was so quick and easy to make it wouldn’t matter much if we had to make some every week.

Mind you.. it didn’t save any of us from the incredibly destructive mess and following packing up arguments… it just added a new dimension of play dough mixed in with every single toy they own being thrown on to the floor.

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2 Responses to “Insane!”

  1. loz on July 24th, 2007 12:59 pm

    Hahaha how’d my lounge room get on your blog!! That bomb looks like it reached here as well lol

    I didn’t know playdough could be done in the microwave that is the same recipe I use I like the sound of that…

    Oh gosh we had magic sand yesterday I should have gotten the camera out I am not sure where they didn’t get it;)

  2. fazzbech on July 25th, 2007 5:34 am

    Ohhh, look at that mess, it looks like the house we just left for playgroup! LOL

    Will definitely come back for this playdough recipe, thanks!

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