Showing posts with label toddler activity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toddler activity. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2012

Salt Dough

We were having B's cousin and his family over one afternoon for a playdate/dinner.  I figured, with two toddlers, I better have some activity planned!  Home made salt dough!

Ingredients:
flour
salt
warm water
food coloring

Use a 2:1:1 ratio for the ingredients (flour:salt:warm water).  So for each cup of flour, use 1/2 cup of salt and a 1/2 cup of water. I wanted to make a few colors, so I did smaller portions.  Mix up the flour and the salt.


Add food coloring to warm water, about 6-10 drops depending on how bright you want it to be.


Mix it up, and knead by hand.  After doing yellow, blue and green, I had no food dyes on my hands.  Sweet!


I portioned it out for T and JT so that each had a sample of each color and then I rolled it flat onto parchment paper and sealed it with plastic wrap until we were ready.


Gather up some cookie cutters and have fun!


They had a blast!