St Patrick's Day Play Dough!

Recipe for making play dough:

• 2 cups of flour
• ½ cup of salt
• 2 tbsp of oil
• 2 tbsp of cream of tartar
• 2 cups of boiling water
• 1 tsp of food colouring

Method:

1. Mix all dry ingredients.
2. Add oil and boiling water with food colouring and mix well.
3. Store in airtight container.

On the 18th of March, Room 8 made green, not-so-sparkly play dough. It was to celebrate St Patrick’s day. This took part in the afternoon at St Patrick’s school.

In class, we were separated into five groups and each person had an important role to do. One of us put all the ingredients into a bowl, the other read out the instructions for making the play dough. Another person had a rubber glove to knead the play dough and the other cleaned the table after we were done. The teacher also added some glitter for the final touches.

The Play dough was very sticky at first and was in need of lots of flour for it to shaped properly. Adding more flour also helped it to not stick to the table.

After all that, we were told to roll it into a thin and long snake and twirl it into a spiral. When we were done, we had to blow through a straw and guide a polystyrene ball to the middle of the spiral. Then we could form it into any shape we wanted. I made a soccer field and bent the end of two straws and stuck it to the side of the square to make it look like goal posts. Me and my friend used two other straws to blow the polystyrene ball into each other's goals.

We had heaps of fun making play dough, even though it was very messy.