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Best Play Dough Recipe Ever

Best Ever Play Dough Recipe....

Want to know how to make play dough? Well,  I think I am the play dough Queen. It feels like I have tried 'millions' of play dough recipes over the years.

BUT.....

This Recipe is THE best ever - truly...

It is basically the normal recipe that is plastered all over the 'Cream of Tartar' tin, BUT , with one small change.

Instead of using cold water and boiling the mixture, replace the cold water with boiling water and stir the mixture - no cooking! yeh!

It really does work and is so simple, wonderful texture, and lasts without even going into the fridge.  I just pop it into zip lock bags.

Ok here it is.....

Uncooked Play Dough

2 cups of plain flour
4 tablespoons of 'cream of tartar'
2 tablespoons of cooking oil
1 cup of salt
2 cups of boiling water
food colouring

Just pop it all in a mixing bowl and mix!

It looks as though it is not going to mix well at first but hang in there and throw it onto the bench to knead, and it will come together really nicely.

We put different things in ours also such as glitter and sand.  Just be careful you don't put things in like rice as they tend to go mouldy - we find glitter is really good.

Hope this helps everyone.

Cheers and Happy Play Doughing! (get into it, it is really relaxing to knead)