Simply the Bryans Family Blog

Hello visitors! We'll just pass right on by the fact that I haven't updated this blog in freakin' forever, but hey... here I am! Today I thought I would post a super fun tutorial on how to make HOMEMADE PLAY DOH! Yay!! Found the recipe and just love it! Not sure if I will ever by play doh from the store again- this is CHEAP, EASY and FUN! Emma doesn't enjoy it nearly as much as Abby does, but hey, that's okay! Abby will sit for hours and play with this stuff, and she thinks it's super awesome that "I" made it! ;)

Things are going well here, Emma started school a couple of weeks ago, and she is loving it! Abby starts preschool (tues & thurs) tomorrow and she's very excited! She had a little preschool summer boot camp type thing where they went for a straight week and though the first 2 days were tearful at first, she got into the swing of it and made me some adorable little crafts!

Jer is totally loving his job that he's had since January, and we are ultra blessed that he found it, it's a fantastic company and he gets wonderful benefits and security! I, myself, am busy with this and that. A lot of blog customizing for customers and making blinkies this summer for me! I've started working out with two good friends of mine and the pounds are fallin' off slowly, which is so neat to see! I've never really ever worked out, or attempted any weight loss type thing, but I'm confident that I'm doing it the healthy way (exercise and watching what I eat- a "little" heheheh!) therefore I'm super happy! I couldn't have better friends, they push me when I'm feeling lazy (which is most the time heheh!)... So, onto the play doh!! Enjoy!

Homemade Play Doh

Ingredients

1 Cup Flour

1/2 Cup Salt

1 Cup Water

2 tsp. Cream of Tartar

1 tbsp. cooking oil

food coloring

vanilla (for smell, use whatever smell you want)

I tossed all the dry ingredients into a medium sized sauce pan... the flour, salt and cream of tartar (finally found a use for that stuff! LOL!)

All the wet ingredients went into a measuring cup... the water, a dash of vanilla (for scent, use whatever scent you want)

Abby chose the color yellow, so it's not too pretty being mixed up...

Over medium heat, I poured in the wet ingredients...

Stirring everything together, here I start stirring pretty fiercely, LOL!

Couple minutes of stirring over medium heat, the "dough" starts to pull away from the side and to form a ball...

I turn the dough out onto a plate and then start to kneed it for a couple of mins, till its smooth. Careful, it's warm! ;)

Abby likes to help me kneed it!

Then... it's play time! I had made a batch of purple before the yellow batch... to store it, I just pop it into a ziploc baggie and keep it in the fridge. It lasts for quite a while!