Only a week ago, I packed away my winter coats and readied myself for the continual wearing of flip-flops. Ha! Temperatures today have dropped, rains have arrived and our heaters are back on. Thank goodness for homemade play dough; our ever faithful go-to play resource, especially on wet days.

Here’s a most beautiful scented homemade play dough. Easy as pie to make and keeps very well in an air tight container, (ours can keep for months).

Homemade Rosewater Play Dough

2013-09-17 00:46:27

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1204 calories

202 g

0 g

30 g

26 g

2 g

1066 g

113207 g

1 g

0 g

26 g

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size

1066g

Amount Per Serving

Calories 1204

Calories from Fat 268

% Daily Value *

Total Fat 30g

47%

Saturated Fat 2g

11%

Trans Fat 0g

Polyunsaturated Fat 6g

Monounsaturated Fat 20g

Cholesterol 0mg

0%

Sodium 113207mg

4717%

Total Carbohydrates 202g

67%

Dietary Fiber 7g

27%

Sugars 1g

Protein 26g

Vitamin A

0%

Vitamin C

0%

Calcium

12%

Iron

25%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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Ingredients

1. 2 cups flour
2. 1 cup salt
3. 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
4. 2 tablespoons cooking oils
5. 2 cups water
6. food colouring (using the ratio of 8 parts pink and 1 part purple)
7. rosewater essence

Instructions

1. Combine all dry ingredients and mix.
2. Add wet ingredients (except food colouring and rosewater essence) to the dry ingredients and mix.
3. Place in a large pot and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until it forms a ball.
4. When the dough pulls away from the pan and the wet parts begin to look dry, take out the dough and knead until smooth.
5. Once the dough has cooled, add food colouring and rosewater essence to personal preference.

Notes

1. The quantities stated above makes enough for four adult handfuls. This homemade rosewater play dough is not to be consumed. The nutritional information provided here is placed here by default, as part of the printable recipe template I've used.

By Pauline, Lessons Learnt Journal

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To set up an invitation to play, I used:

• table-mats
• plates
• small silver play cutlery
• stamps
• (N brought along a few superheroes to play).

E thoroughly enjoyed exploring our homemade rosewater play dough using the small silver play cutlery. He was scooping and cutting all afternoon.

N enjoyed stamping our homemade rosewater play dough with his superhero toys. I think he made some hero sandwiches at some point too.

We’ll be playing with this beautiful homemade rosewater play dough rain, hail or shine, but I would love to know, what are your wet weather go-to play savers?

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I made a new batch of play dough yesterday and chose to colour it yellow. Its’ household name is Bumblebee play dough, naturally. What’s super about this Bumblebee play dough, name aside, is that you cook it in the microwave. No pot on the stove, hence no soaking and scrubbing of pots required. Yay!

The microwave play dough recipe very simple and quick. It’s easier to make than the traditional stove cooked play dough recipe, however it doesn’t keep as well. Still, if you need something quick and something that you aren’t planning to keep for more than a few days, this microwave play dough recipe is for you!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups plain flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 3 tablespoons oil
• 6 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 3 cups water
• yellow food colouring (or whatever colour you wish to use)

Method:

Mix all the ingredients in a microwave dish. Cover and microwave on high for about seven minutes, stirring half way through. Knead when cool.

Play dough is possibly one of the most useful, interesting and demanding mediums for developing hand skills. It’s great for hand strength, using both hands together, hand manipulation skills, tool manipulation, power grasps and fine pincer grasps.

Yesterday, in the excitement of having brand new, still warm play dough, N & M used what they could get their hands on and simply had some free play as I forgot to bring out our usual play dough tools.

N & M had immense fun filling an old plastic bottle with play dough snakes.

N also had fun filling a plastic straw with play dough and figuring out that it’s very difficult – (nay, impossible) to get it out again.

M had fun role playing with the actual Bumblebee (well, as actual as we’ll get), and a huge lump of Bumblebee play dough which morphed into various things like Bumblebee’s gun, or Bumblebee’s enemy, or my favourite, Bumblebee’s pet dog (who he sat beside and had a chat with).

Lesson learnt: If a Mummy Utility Belt in the style of the Batman Utility Belt actually existed, a tub of play dough would be part of it.

Can’t get enough of play dough? Look here for other fun play dough ideas.

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