Play Dough Making at Home With And Without Heat in Just Two Simple Steps

Children mostly like to play with dough, they enjoy playing with it also they learn about art and craft toy making while playing with dough. Playing with dough is a healthy activity for children. You can easily make play dough at home. Do you want to know How to Make play dough at home? Then follow us in this article to plan a surprise for your children with your homemade Playdough and let them have a great fun.

Play Dough Making at Home With And Without Heat in Just Two Simple Steps

Caution:

Keep the dough far from pets, because it smells like food but have so much salt inside, and could be dangerous for pets.

2 Easy Methods of How to Make Playdough

Method of How to Make Playdough using Heat:

Required things:  

• Flour (any) 2 cup

• Salt 1 cup Hot water

• 2 cup Oil (vegetable oil) 2 tbs

• Food color/colors or glitters as required

• Cream of tartar 1 tbs

• A pot to heat the dough

Procedure:

• Pour all the ingredients except food color/colors in a pot and mix them all together then put on low flame.

• Stir the mixture it will become thick same like mashed.

• When the dough start blobbing from the bottom of the pan and it looks like play dough then off the flame and let it cool.

• Now put the dough on some plan surface such as your kitchen counter, and knead the dough again and again until it becomes gleaming and silky.

• Now according to your food colors make small ball of the dough and separately mix different food colors or glitters to make dough of different colors.

• You have done!

• Your dough is ready to play with. It is safe dough for your children to play with.

• You can store it some impermeable box for so long.

• If the dough becomes dry, you can add some drops of water in it and knead it again. Again it will become smooth.

Method of How to Make Playdough without using heat:

Required things:  

• Flour (any) 2 cup
   
• Salt 1 cup
   
• Hot water 2 cup
   
• Oil (vegetable oil) 2 tbs
   
• Food color/colors or glitters as required
   
• Glycerin few drops
   
• Cream of tartar 2 tbs
   
• A bowl for mixing

Procedure:

To make play dough without heat you need less effort and less time. Around 4 to 5 minutes you can easily make play dough without heat. Just follow the given steps:

• First of all, take a bowl and mix flour and salt together. You can use any flour which is easily available for you.
   
• Now add cream of tartar. Cream of tartar makes the dough more flexible and smooth.
   
• Add water and stir well, and then add oil and mix it well.
   
• Now add glycerin some drops only, as glycerin gives more shine to your dough.
   
• Check the texture and consistency, if it is dry you can add some drops of water and if it is viscous add some flour and mix.
   
• At this step, according to your food colors make small ball of the dough and separately mix different food colors to make dough of different colors. Mix the dough well until it becomes even.
   
• Now finally take out the dough from bowl and place it on your kitchen counter and knead it well until the dough becomes very smooth, shiny, and flexible.
   
• You can store it some impermeable box for so long.