Play Dough Time

I am always testing out new recipes to see how they turn out, and to see if their claims are true. ...Is that REALLY the best ever chocolate chip cookie? Sometimes they are great, sometimes not so much. But it's not always limited to food recipes.

Today, it's play dough. 

This is a really easy recipe, consisting of only two {surprising} ingredients. 
Conditioner and baby powder.

We always seem to run out of shampoo before we run out of conditioner, so we had a surplus of conditioner, and I never used baby powder on my baby's butt, so we had lots of that lying around too.

The original recipe from Kids Activities Blog called for conditioner and corn starch, but I modified it and used the corn starch baby powder that I had lying around forever. 
It was very dusty to make, and I'd probably use a mask next time.

Four hours later and I'm still coughing, thus the reason I never used it on my son!

While the original recipe called for a 2:1 ratio of corn starch to conditioner, I used:

1 cup of conditioner
2- 1/4 cups of baby powder

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My first batch came out perfectly. On my second batch, I was a little short of a cup of extra conditioner, so I had to sacrifice some of my new conditioner to get the right consistency. 

On the bright side, maybe I will finally finish my shampoo and conditioner at the same time now! 

I have some pros and cons on this recipe, though.

Second batch came out a bit more dry. But no worries; just add more conditioner!

Pros

• I made a use for stuff that I had no use for (conventionally).

• It is a really easy and fast recipe, and you don't have to cook it.

• It is really soft.

• Play dough is always fun, in a calming way.

• It provided hours of entertainment, meaning I had time to write about it and clean my kitchen after making it! 

Cons

• It was really dusty to make. Yuck.

• It is definitely not edible or non-toxic. Not for younger kids who put stuff in their mouth.

• It's really smelly and leaves my hands feeling a little too conditioned. For me, that was a con.

• It is really dense. My son had issues when he was playing with his play dough press because it was too thick and crumbly to go through the holes.
  

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At the end of the day, you can never have too much play dough, and you always have too much conditioner. 
That works for me!  

But I would give it about a 2/5 in the end; it's a little too dense to play with all the contraptions and I would definitely not feel comfortable having a younger child playing with it, with the ingredients being very inedible.

What is your favourite play dough recipe? My next play dough recipe I'm going to try is the famous Jello recipe at Modern Parents Messy Kids

Happy Play Time!

xo Jena