How & Why To Make This Easy Doh Recipe With Your Kids.

How & Why-Make This Easy Doh Recipe With Your Kids.

by  Susie E. Caron (c) 1-25-15


"What can I do today?" young children often ask.


This may or may not be a familiar question in this age of electronics. However, it's ideal to have something else for your kids to do when they are bored, bugging you with endless questions, or needing a good old fashioned hands on activity. Activities, like the one below, will benefit you and your kids in these significant ways:

• It requires only little of your time; less than 10 minutes to prepare.
  
• When you make the doh together, you build up your parent-child relationship.
• It's fun and easy. (Kid love to watch something 'materialize' from what was first several other ingredients.)
• You develop good memories for all of you.
  
• The doh can occupy your children for long periods of time,which helps you if  you need to get some other things accomplished.
  
• When tightly covered, it is reusable, so they can play with it for several weeks before another batch is needed.

I saved this recipe I used when my own two children were little. 
Now you can make this doh with your kids, and give them some creative fun.


Suggestion: Give them some cookie cutters to work with! Older children could make winter shapes or Valentines. Encourage them to use their imaginations & make creatures!


My Favorite Fun Doh. 


NOTE: Adult is needed for the cooking step.
Mix in a saucepan:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
1 Tablespoon Cream of Tartar
1Tablespoon Cooking Oil
Food color, or a package of unsweetened Kool-aid, if desired.
Cook this mixture over low heat stirring constantly until mixture forms a ball. (It works quickly.)
Remove from heat. Allow it to cool until you  and the kids can knead it by hand.
This must be stored in air-tight containers, but keeps for weeks.


Did you enjoy this article? Would you enjoy more articles about practical, fun things you can do with your kids? 
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Twee' Means You & Me, 
Susie E. Caron

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