Those kids' craft recipes I mentioned...

OK, slack me has forgotten the recipes (thanks for the reminder email!!!)

The salt dough one comes from another site and then from Eilleen so you can find it and pictures of the great presents she made, here.

Mr 5 loves making Cornflour Slime, which is super easy to make, and super easy to clean up after (a HUGE bonus for me).

Water colour paints require:

A quantity of cornflour
An equal volume of cold water
Food colouring of required colours.

Mix the cornflour and water, stirring until the cornflour is in complete suspension.
Slowly add food colouring until desired colour is achieved.
Leave in a jar or tray to completely air dry.
When completely dry, crush to a fine powder, and store until required.

I use baby-food jars to store this in.

To use the paint, add water until desired consistency is reached.

Easy.

Cooked Play Dough is another easy one, if you do not have weak wrists, as the stirring can be tough. I use the recipe from the Play School site which you can find here. I halve the recipe which is plenty for 2 or 3 kids to play with. I only make the full amount if I am making lots of different colours, or when I made it for the school fair.

The Play School/ABC Kids site also has recipes for:

Bubble mix
Paper
and Soap Slime

and heaps of other recipes for the things they make on the show. Good resource for do-able kids' craft as well.

Pasting Glue is a goo made up from cornflour, blended with a little cold water to form a paste, then whisk/stir in boiling water until thick. Let it cool before giving to the kids!!



I picked up a chalk board/painting easel at Salvos the other day for $4 (great value!) so I need all these recipes to get into the outdoor messy crafts the kids love.

I hope you enjoy them.