Ingredients:

• 1 Cup flour
• 1 Cup water
• 1 Tablespoon oil
• 2 Teaspoons Cream of Tartar
• 1/2 Cup salt
• Food coloring

Method:

• Use non stick spray into a medium pan.
• Measure the dry ingredients and blend with a wooden spoon.
• Repeat the procedure with the liquid ingredients.
• Mix the dry and liquid ingredients together in the sauce pan.
• Stir aggressively until the lumps break up.
• Cook over medium heat for 1,5 – 2 minutes while continually stirring.
• If the play-dough is quite sticky, cook it a while longer.

Important: Let the play-dough cool down before playing with it.

Bright ideas:

• Add a tablespoon of alum to the mixture. It will make the dough less tempting to eat and slows down the growth of bacteria. Alum is non-toxic and used in pickling but can cause severe stomach ache when eaten in large quantities.
• Store the dough in the fridge when Miss Muffet is not playing with it. It helps keeping mould and bacteria at bay.
• Add essential oils for the lovely smell as well as the soothing properties – lavender to calm or eucalyptus to clear blocked noses.
• Experiment with different colours and blend them together  – the result will be a colour explosion.