Edible Play Dough

My boys wanted to make some edible play dough one day after we had made some regular. I knew you could make it with powdered milk, honey, and peanut butter. The problem being was that it was $12 for a box of powdered milk at our store...I knew I only needed one packet and I wasn't willing to pay that price. So by the power of technology I was able to search the internet on my phone and fine a new recipe while still at the store. This is the one I found and I already had everything at home!

Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough-Familycorner.com
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup honey
1 cup peanut butter

Sift powdered sugar. Mix together ingredients until they form a soft dough. Play and enjoy!

**I did add in the sifting part...I found mine had clumps of powdered sugar through out the dough so it seemed to be a bit stickier than it needed to be. When the boys first played with it, I sprinkled the table with some extra sugar to help with the stickiness. It worked well and the boys loved it!

Homemade Playdough

I don't know about anyone else, but I really really dislike the smell of the playdoh you buy at the store. Maybe it was  because A was using it while I was pregnant with Q and it just wasn't agreeing with me, I don't know. Needless to say I do not buy it anymore, we only make the homemade version. I did have some small tubs of it and A calls it the "yucky" playdoh. We had made some a while back and he wanted to use his new cookie cutters today, well when I opened the container it was quite soft, softer than it should be. So the boys playedwith it and then we decided we needed some new dough made, so we made it on this rainy, cold day!

Homemade Play Dough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tbsp cream of tartar
1 tbsp cooking oil
1 cup water
food coloring

Mix together the dry ingredients. Add in oil and stir. Mix food coloring and water together.  Pour dry ingredients into a saucepan and slowly add in water while stirring. Turn on the heat and stir until it starts to dry. This should take about 2 mins. Once it clumps remove it from the heat, dump onto cutting board(or table), let cool slightly, and knead it a bit. Let cool and until ready to use. Store in airtight container. ***This is NOT edible.

Kid Help: measure/pour/mix ingredients, pick out and squeeze food coloring.