Daisy In Action

Combining two pins in one, No Cook Playdough and Mud Playdough.  We hadn’t made any playdough since Feb and between it drying out a bit and the dog eating much of it (bad bad bad, the playdough is not good for dogs, and the amount of salt that is in it can be toxic for them, luckily (in that he didn’t go into toxic shock or anything) for us, Buddy just was super super thirsty and peed every 10 minutes for the next 24 hours (rough night)) we needed more.

I thought the brown, mud, playdough would be fun and had seen a post on making a no cook version.  Basically the same recipe, just use hot water instead of boiling the whole thing on the stove.  It does seem to be smoother, and stayed fresh while we played with it the whole day (it was the only thing he did from about 10 -6:30, only taking a nap in between…)

We have moved the process up to the kitchen table as to avoid the dog sneaking some while we are out of the room.  Overall this was a great success, the dog didn’t eat any and Henry had a ton of fun!

No Cook Mud Playdough

From theimaginationtree.com and icanteachmychild.com

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 TBSP cream of tartar
• 2 TBSP cocoa powder (or food coloring of your choice)
• 2 TBSP vegetable oil baking powder
• 2 cups boiling water

Mix the dry ingredients together. Add the vegetable oil and 3/4 of the water.   Mix until combined to a sticky mess dough, adding more water as needed. Let the mixture cool to room temperature.  Roll out onto a well floured surface and kneed the dough until it is no longer sticky and is a nice playdough consistency.

Store in an air tight container in the fridge and play with it as often as desired.