I'm always trying to find fun things for the girls to do in their leg braces to encourage standing. The kiddos were almost out of playdough and were wanting more, so we decided to get packets of kool-aid and make kool-aid playdough. It's not edible, but it does smell really yummy, and it comes out with nice colors (except for the yellow... we could barely see that one). My kids have never had kool-aid to drink, so they now think the purpose of kool-aid is to make playdough, and I'm totally ok with that :). We used this recipe from http://www.the36thavenue.com/2013/03/kool-aid-playdough-recipe.html:
Author: Desiree Campbell
Recipe type: Playdough
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Flour
- ¼ Cup Salt
- 1 Packet Kool-Aid
- ⅔ Cup Water *You will end up using between ½ and ⅔ cup.
- 1 Tb. Oil
Instructions
- Mix the flour, the salt, and the Kool-Aid together.
- Boil the water.
- Add the oil to the water (we added our oil after we added water. We started with 1/3 cup water, mixed, then added a tiny more water, mixed again, then kneaded when we got to the right amount of water, which was 1/3 plus 1/2 of 1/3).
- Pour some of the water into the dry ingredients and mix with a spoon. Keep adding water and work the dough until the color is uniform and feels like playdough.
If you want to make this gluten-free, you should be able to just use white rice flour instead. You could add a little xanathan gum too, to make sure it's the right consistancy.
The kids had a lot of fun!
(well, you can't tell from Conner's face here, but he really had fun too, I promise!)
<3!!!
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