Science Day- Learn How to Make Homemade play dough

Science can be fun. Show your kids how to make homemade play dough by using products you already have in your kitchen.
Note: This play dough does not last as long as the store bought stuff.

What your child needs: Mixing bowl, big spoon, one cup of flour, 2/3 cup of water (you might need to add more), half a cup of salt, red, blue, yellow or green food coloring.
For more dough fun find cookie cutters, rolling pin, wax paper, cutting board to roll dough on, old cookie sheet, old spatula, art paint for kids.

To make homemade play dough: Have your child pour flour and salt into mixing bowl. Mix with spoon. Now decide what color you want the dough. Add five drops of this color to 2/3 cup of water. Stir. Now add this colored water, slowly, to salt and flour mixture. Mix. Mix. And mix some more. (If you don’t like the result add more salt.) Show your child how to kneed dough. When dough is of a firm consistency your child can play with it. When they are done playing with it put it in a freezer bag. Label and store in freezer until next time. (You are freezing dough to make it last longer. You will have to let dough thaw out fully before it can be played with again. You can also put dough in frig if your child plans to play with it the very next day, or sometime that same week.)

For cookie cutter fun: Put wax paper on cutting board. Put play dough on wax paper. Have your child roll dough flat with rolling pin. (You might need to dust rolling pin with flour so dough does not stick to pin.) After rolling, place cookie cutters in dough. Move aside extra dough and using spatula carefully place cookie shapes on old cookie sheet. Let shapes dry out in warm sun (48 hours depending). Remember warm metal can burn so keep away from cookie sheet while shapes are drying. Paint shapes when fully dry. DON’T EAT.