Rainy Day Mum 
Wednesday, 15th of February 2012 at 07:00:00 AMI just couldn’t resist writing this post and all credit goes to The Imagination Tree for it. When I read about how easy it was to make I didn’t believe a word of it….
I’ve tried homemade play dough – I even wrote our recipe at the start of the blog but it is hard work and takes a long time to make by which point J is annoyed and T is starting to get fed up and my arm hurts. So when we’ve used play dough in the past it’s been shop brought stuff. But then Anna at The Imagination Tree kept posting about her no cook homemade play dough and last week she posted a chocolate play dough recipe…. well I LOVE chocolate and when she said that it could be made in 4 minutes I didn’t believe her. So I set to prove that it took longer but it didn’t so here it is.
For the recipe pop over to The Imagination Tree to find out exactly how to make it – it took me 3 and a half minutes to make and has been very very popular with J.
J using cookie cutters
Previous to this J has been very into adding things to his play dough, pens, pipe cleaners and of course googley eyes. But this time with the chocolate play dough he wanted to make cookies with them. I had made some Valentines Cookies this week with him and I think he wanted to continue with the fun.
J getting the hang of using a cookie cutter
When I have tried to introduce cookie cutters in the past we have had to work together to get the co-ordination to cut out the dough but suddenly J has worked out the pressure needed and is able to cut out the shapes himself. Whilst we were cutting out the dough he kept talking about how we were making cookie out of the chocolate play dough and these were for Daddy, this one for T, this one for his favourite friend F etc…
Cookie Hands out of chocolate play dough
For play dough play I have now added an old baking tray for J to play with and our selection of cookie cutters are featuring a lot in is play at the moment.
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This play dough must smell amazing! Glad you found a recipe you like!!!
When I make the regular homemade version (similar to your recipe), I boil the water in a kettle first – speeds up the process a great deal!
Thanks for sharing with Learning Laboratory at Mama Smiles =)
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The play dough is amazing – but we can’t play with it with T around she wants to eat it and for some reason likes the taste of it!
Here’s the recipe we use, if you want to give homemade play dough another go – ours always comes together quickly (with the boiling water!) http://mamasmiles.com/fun-with-play-dough/
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Ohhhh thank you
Oh, Chocolate play dough, how fun!! We will have to make this variety some time soon!
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It’s great – T wants to eat it though so maybe only with Rosie and not with Jewel!
Looks like LOTS of fun and hooray to The Imagination Tree and Anna’s fabulous ideas and recipes!
Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
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It’s an amazing recipe – I’ve been experimenting with some different varities as well
Wow chocolate play dough, J did well not to eat it.
We’ve got it stored so you can have a play with him and it at the weekend – he’ll love making you some cookies with it
[...] into the kitchen I found him with our chocolate play doughout and pressing in his stegosaurus into the play dough and announcing he was burying it. J buried [...]
Chocolate…does that mean you can eat it, because if I mentioned that word to my three it would be in their mouths, they are chocoholics! Fab, looks great to me.
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T tried it (as she eats Shaving foam I was dreading it) but she spat it out – a little too salty for her