Quick Craft: Homemade Play Dough

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November 4th, 2009 8

Homemade Play Dough
By Nancy Dougherty

Recently, I had fun spending a day with my 2-year-old niece, Lola. At first, a day with a toddler seemed daunting. I tried to remember what I did with my children when they were that age. It started to come back pretty quickly, the need to occupy their young hands and minds with tactile things. Then I remembered my old recipe for play dough that I used to make with my own children. I found it in the metal recipe box between paper maché and zucchini bread. You may already have all the ingredients, as they are commonplace.

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About the Author:
Nancy Dougherty enjoys poetry and crafts, and lives in Sebastopol with Dale, publisher of CRAFT & MAKE.
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8 thoughts on “Quick Craft: Homemade Play Dough”

Remya says:

November 4th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

I’m unable to download the pdf.

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pulltaffy says:

November 5th, 2009 at 4:12 am

Me too! And I really want to! :(

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Natalie Zee Drieu says:

November 5th, 2009 at 8:43 am

The PDF is downloading fine. Try right-clicking the link above to save the PDF to your desktop instead of viewing it in your browser. Also, make sure you have the latest Adobe PDF reader.
Here’s a reference on downloading PDFs:
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/09/ask_craft_downloading_our_pdfs.html

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ShowUhow.com says:

November 7th, 2009 at 11:18 pm

That’s so cool. I didn’t know you could make your own play dough

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