As you can see, the beautiful all natural ingredient of Cream of Tartar is the key. Yes, there are other variations, some that even include peanut butter. BUT... traditional play doh is a simple process using the ingredient Cream of Tartar. If you are wondering what Cream of Tartar is... but aren't curious enough to look it up... it is a substance created when one turns grape into wine. I.E. a by-product of wine making. (Name deriving from the chemical composition of potassium acid tartrate) It is all natural and is commonly used to make souffles and candies of sorts. I used almost the entire jar yesterday. Made four large batches of Play doh.
Here is the recipe:
3 cups flour blended with 3 cups water in pot on stove.
Add 1 cup salt.
Add 6 teaspoons Cream of Tartar.
Add 3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
Food coloring (plan on using most of the tube for good color)
Heat on medium/high heat until it clumps up good enough to look sort of like playdoh.
Throw on a surface (I use a wooden cutting board) and knead until smooth and clumps are out/color mixed well.
Let cool. Let play.
We made green for St. Patricks day, yellow just because, purple for princesses and brown for monkeys. When I get out to get some more Cream of Tartar we will make pink, blue and orange. :)
Clay Happy!!!
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