Today, my kids and I tried a new playdough recipe. They are busy creating with their little hands as we speak! This oatmeal playdough recipe has a different texture than regular playdough, so it offers the children a different sensory and creative experience. I found the recipe at http://www.playdoughrecipe.com/oatmeal-playdough-recipe/ , and I made a few minor adjustments to it to ease some of the stickiness. It is rather sticky as the original recipe is written, so I added some cornmeal and some extra flour until the dough was the perfect consistency. The above posted website also has many other kinds of playdough recipes to try out, if you are interested.
Oatmeal Playdough
1 cup of flour
2 cups of oats
Food coloring
1 cup of water
Cornmeal
Extra flour
In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients together. Mix desired food coloring with the cup of water. Slowly add the water/food coloring mixture to the dry ingredients, mix together well. Knead the dough by hand to continue to mix (will be sticky), then add cornmeal and extra flour a little bit at a time. Continue to knead and add cornmeal and flour until dough is a good consistency for play.
P.S. The picture is a birthday cake, made with the oatmeal playdough, by my 5 year old.
Awesome Saturday night project! It's an unusual texture, I can't wait to see what they do with it tomorrow when they have more time.
ReplyDeleteHehe! I loooove the look of the finished playdough! The oatmeal gives it a really strange look :)
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