Recipes For Kids: Play Dough, Paint and Bubbles

Edible Peanut Butter Playdough

/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
1 cup powdered milk

Knead until smooth.

Bubbles

1 cup water
1/3 cup dish soap (Joy, Sunlight, Seventh Generation (chemical free))
2 Tablespoons light corn syrup

Combine ingredients and enjoy. If you don't have bubble blowers around the house, be creative and try using different objects from your utensil drawer, (e.g., apple corer, potato masher, handle of a basting brush, etc. They work.)

Finger Paint

1/4 cup cornstarch
2 cups water
food coloring

Mix ingredients in saucepan. Boil until mixture thickens. Allow to cool, then pour into jars or other storage containers and color with food coloring. Best used on a glossy paper, such as butcher or shelf paper.

Homemade Playdough

4 cups flour

1 cup salt

1 T. vegetable oil

Enough water to make dough soft, 1 to 1 1/2 cups

Knead until smooth. Tempera paint of food coloring may be used in water to give color, if desired. This may be used several times, especially if kept in a plastic bag in a refrigerator when not being used.

Cooked Clay Dough

1 cup flour            

1 cup salt

1 cup water           

1 T. oil

2 tsp. Cream of tarter

Food coloring

Cook over medium heat until a ball forms. Knead the ball. Store in a plastic bag.