Sparkle Dough

I discovered The Imagination Tree blog when Ava was still pretty tiny, and just loved all the fun/educational play ideas. It's awesome! If you're looking for some creative activities for your little ones, go check it out! 


Ava and I made some sparkle dough awhile ago. We do love glitter, after all. :) Here's the recipe directly from The Imagination Tree site:


- 1 cup of salt
- 2 cups of flour
- 1.5 cups of boiling water (important that it is straight from kettle)
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp cream of tartar (or a squeeze of lemon juice)
- a few drops of glycerine to add extra shine and stretch (this is my own special ingredient!)
- black food colouring
- silver glitter
Method:

Mix it all together in a bowl until it starts to come together. Then knead it for a few minutes and add the colouring and glitter. It will be very hot at first! It comes together beautifully and will last for months in a zip-loc bag in the cupboard.

 We made a half batch of the recipe (which was still a ton) and used blue food coloring since we didn't have black. Ava was a good little helper! She liked to help me stir. :)

Initially, we put in just blue glitter, but it wasn't nearly as sparkly as silver, so then we added some of that, too!

In the end, it looked like this: 

Fun and sparkly and ready for play!

  

Ava loved it, but be warned, it was very messy! See the glitter all over the table? Oh, well. :) We like our messy projects in this house. 

Go make some! :)