Creative Saturdays – Playdough Tadeo

I don’t know about you but I love playdough. I loved it so much when my kids were small that I played with them every time. Then when they grew up I had to try making pottery. I have had some lessons and some successes. But my watercolour called me back. So I haven’t played with pottery in a while.

So today I decided to make some playdough. There are so many great recipes out there. I have a good one in the back of Tadeo Turtle but it is for dough that you bake, and then paint.

Today I will use a great recipe I have used for years.

Ingredients:

1 cup water
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
Food colouring

Directions:

 

1. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl
2. Add water and oil and food colouring ( I learned you could use Koolaid but I didn’t have any.)

 

3. Cook over medium heat on the stove top.

4. When it starts to come away from the sides it is done.

5. Remove from heat and put on wax paper. – watch out it is hot.

6. This is the best part. Start working the dough.

7. Start forming the turtle – make the bottom, legs, tail, head.

 

8. Make a shell to put over his body. I used toothpicks to design the shell but you can use anything and design it any way you want. This is your turtle.

9. The finished Tadeo Turtle – if I had made other colours of playdough I would have used them in his shell.

10. The playdough can be kept in the refrigerator for a long time in a covered container or closed bag. I even put Tadeo in there as my granddaughter is arriving tonight. I wanted to show her.

Please check out more about my book Tadeo Turtle on Tadeo’s Page. You will find more activities at the back of my book. And a 24-page curriculum is available if you ask.

For more craft ideas from He Cares for Us go to Crafts for Kids.

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