Make dough yourself
My children love playing with plasticine. But with time it gets too expensive for me to buy new modeling clay, so I do it myself.
This is how it's done:
- Mix 400 g flour with 200 g salt and approx. 11 g alum powder from the pharmacy.
- Boil 600 ml of water with 3 tablespoons of oil and 1 sachet of food coloring (powder) briefly and add.
- Remove the pot from the heat and pour the flour-salt mixture into the hot water.
- Now mix thoroughly with the mixer. After a few minutes, the mass has cooled down so far that it can be kneaded again briefly with your hands.
- If the mass appears too dry, add a few more drops of oil.
- The plasticine should be stored in plastic containers or bags well and for a long time.
- Please make sure that your children do not put the clay in their mouth or eat pieces of it.
- The high salt content puts a strain on the kidneys.
- However, I have found that after the first attempt to want to eat, no further attempt follows.
- The savings and fun factor is very big.
