play dough
This is Hill-Billy Bob.
He thinks you need to know how to make play dough. It’s fun! It takes all of 5 minutes and your kids will be quiet play with it for hours. Why wouldn’t you want to try it?
This is what you need:
3 cups flour
1/3 cup table salt
2 TBSP vegetable oil
food colouring
1 cup water
This is what you’ll need to do:
In a stand mixer (or a regular old bowl), whisk the flour and salt together. Add the oil and mix it in. Add about 15 drops of food colouring to the water and then slowly add the water to the flour mixture (use the dough hook if you are using a stand mixer). Mix it up really well and then dump it out on the table and let your kids at it.
Tell them they need to “work” it for a while to finish mixing it.
Kneed it.
Roll it.
Throw it up in the air (Hill-Billy Bob says this is an important step).
Punch it. Go on, get your aggressions out! Hill-Billy Bob says it’s therapeutic (he’s an eldest child so he knows these things).
After all that, it should be well mixed and ready to play with.
And then they will be so busy playing they might stay still long enough to get a decent picture of them!
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