Play-dough Balloons

It is our school market day on Tuesday. Room 3 have been hard at work making play-dough balloons to sell.

• First of all we made the play-dough using a non-cook recipe.

Non-Cook Play-dough

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of plain flour
• ½ cup salt
• 2 tbsps Cream of Tartar
• 1½ cups of boiling water
• 2 tbsps oil (I use vegetable)
• Food Colouring (optional) 

Method:

• Combine dry ingredients in a bowl
• Combine wet ingredients and add to dry ingredients
• Stir together well
• Knead vigorously
• Play

Handy Tips:

- Too wet/sticky? Add more flour. Too dry/not coming together well? Add more water. Play with the recipe slightly until it works perfectly for you.

- We've found the more you knead the dough, the better it goes.

- As this recipe uses boiling water, please supervise children at all times.

- If you allow your water to cool before adding it, your playdough will not work properly as it will not be hot enough to dissolve the salt or bring all the ingredients together properly. We get all our other ingredients ready and then we add our wet ingredients as soon as the kettle is boiled so that it is still nice and hot.

• Then we had to stretch open the balloons and fill them with play-dough.

• Lastly, we drew a face on the balloons using a felt pen.