Play Dough

Watch and learn how to play dough.

Play doh toys are helpful for kids in many ways. Improves your children's creativity, intelligence, craftmanship skills. Play doh provides an infinite amount of toys and game friends for kids. Play dough come in various colours.

Make your own Play Dough:

Ingredients

1 cup of plain flour

1/4 cup of water

1/3 cup salt

1 tablespoon of vegetable oil

Food coloring, glitter, etc. (optional)

Method 1: Making Stove-top Play Dough

1-)Mix the dry ingredients. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour and salt until the mixture is evenly blended.

Adding a tablespoon of alum to the mixture will make the dough less palatable to a child, reducing the likelihood that the child will eat it. The alum also works as a preservative to help slow down the growth of bacteria. It's non-toxic, but large amounts can cause stomach aches.

Adding two tablespoons of cream of tartar can increase elasticity

2-)Mix the wet ingredients. In a saucepan, bring the water to a boil before adding the food coloring and vegetable oil. Stir until mixed.

A few drops of glycerin can add shine.

3-)Combine wet and dry ingredients. Stirring constantly, slowly pour the dry ingredients into the mixture in the saucepan.

4-)Continue to stir. This step will bring your mixture to the consistency of stiff but smooth mashed potatoes. If you find that consistency unattainable, add flour if it is too wet, and water if it is too dry.

5-)Allow to cool before kneading. Take the pan off the stove until it has cooled enough to touch. Remove your dough mixture from the pan until it's reached the evenly blended play dough consistency.

Method 2: Making Play Dough Without Heat

1-)Combine dry ingredients. Pour flour and salt in a bowl. Mix them together until evenly distributed.

Adding a tablespoon of alum to the mixture will make the dough less palatable to a child, reducing the likelihood that the child will eat it. The alum also works as a preservative to help slow down the growth of bacteria. It's non-toxic, but large amounts can cause stomach aches.

Adding two tablespoons of cream of tartar can increase elasticity.

2-)Add wet ingredients. While stirring, add water and vegetable oil into the dry mix.

A few drops of glycerin can add shine.

3-)Adjust the consistency. Add more flour if you find it's too sticky, and more water if too dry.

4-)Mix in added ingredients. Food coloring, glitter, or texture-related ingredients must all be added in at this point. Keep mixing until everything looks even all the way through.

5-)Knead. Take the dough out of the bowl to knead it on a flat surface. Make sure it feels smooth and even, and work out any spots that were tough to mix in the bowl.

We recommend Play-Doh for all dough games !

History of play dough game

Play dough is a modeling compound used by young children for art and craft projects at home and in school. Composed of flour, water, salt, boric acid, and mineral oil, the product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. When a classroom of children began using the wallpaper cleaner as a modeling compound, the product was reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s. Play-Doh was demonstrated at an educational convention in 1956 and prominent department stores opened retail accounts. Advertisements promoting Play-Doh on influential children's television shows in 1957 furthered the product's sales. Since its launch on the toy market in the mid-1950s, Play-Doh has generated a considerable amount of ancillary merchandise such as The Fun Factory. In 2003, the Toy Industry Association named Play-Doh in its "Century of Toys List".