I. The student gives a speech demonstrating how to make homemade play-dough as a stress reliever for classmates. She explains the necessary materials, simple six-step process, and health benefits of playing with play-dough. II. The key materials needed are water, flour, salt, oil, and food coloring. The student mixes the ingredients together in a bowl in six easy steps. III. Playing with play-dough helps develop motor skills and hand strength while reducing stress and forming new neural connections in the brain.

1. Student's Name: Katie Robinson
R110 - Section No. 22322
Date: September 30, 2015
Instructor's Name: Mr. Stuckey
Title of Speech – How To Make Homemade Play-dough
Thesis Statement: I want to demonstrate to my R110 classmates how to make their very
own play-dough because we all need some stress relievers in our lives.
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INTRODUCTION
I. Raise your hand if you have ever got caught playing with Play-
dough or even the little kid’s sand box table. It is okay to be a
little kid again because what you are doing is not thinking about
anything and just having fun.
II. During these stressful times of college, we all need some
healthy way to relieve all our stress we have built up. There is
no better way than just messing with something squishy that
you can tear it apart or do whatever to it.
III. During my sophomore year in high school, I took a Child
Development class. I did some pretty cool activities in that class
like making play-dough. I continue to make this every time I
feel stressed because I love being little and letting everything
go. I have also done some research on why it is good to play
with this kid-loving item.
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2. Thesis IV. In my demonstration of making play-dough, I am going to
show you all the materials you need, how to make this awesome
item, and why it is good for us to play with it.
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I. I am not using the recipe I learned in high school because
that requires a stove. All the items we need today are just
the basic household ingredients and it requires no baking. I
got this recipe from the website pbs.org.
A. First, we need a large mixing bowl, which you can probably
find easily in your house.
B. We will need one cup of water. It does not matter what water
you use as long as there is water in the mixture.
C. Next on the list is four cups of flour to make the dough.
D. Depending on how dry the mixture is, we can use two to
four tablespoons of cooking oil.
E. Also, we need one and a half cups of regular salt.
F. Last but not least, is the food coloring. You can make
whatever color of Play-dough you would like.
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ingredients on
the table
Transition (Once we have all the required materials, we can start mixing the
ingredients together to get our wonderful dough.)
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II. These six steps to making this awesome item come
together is so easy and you will have your dough made in
no time.
A. First, we need to pour the water into the large mixing
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bowl.
B. Next, you add whatever color of food coloring you
would like. You can even mix it up to make different
colors. Make sure you stir the coloring into the water.
C. Thirdly, you add the salt and flour into the colored
water. Also, you need to blend all the ingredients
together.
D. After blending steps one through four, you add the
tablespoons of oil.
1. Add the required amount and than if it seems too
crumbly or not soft enough than keep adding oil because
this is what helps the dough last so long.
E. This last step is where you get your hands mixed in with
the dough to make sure everything is blended in well and it is ready
to be played with.
Transition (Since we have the dough done, I am going to tell you why it is
good for us, as humans, to relieve our stress and act like little kids.)
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Dough
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I. It is important for us to know we can relieve our stress in
simple ways than just shutting down or hurting our bodies.
A. When I was researching, I found this website Scholastic.com
that said playing with play-dough helps our motor skills,
hand strength and dexterity.
1. So after I read this information above, I though about

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how adults are getting carpel tunnel because of them
texting all the time. By messing with the dough, we can
make our hands have more exercise.
B. The scholastic.com website also informed me that while we
think our brain is off duty while messing with the dough, it is
actually making more neural connections in our brain.
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Final Appeal
CONCLUSION
I. So now, I have demonstrated to you what materials you need,
the recipe in order to make the dough, and why it is important
to play with.
II. I hope you go home and make this easy six-step recipe to get
your favorite colored play-dough. This is a good way to relieve
all the stressors we have in college and even in our lives. You
can be even more creative and add glitter or any other objects
into your dough that will last for a while.
Works Cited
Gravino, Caroline. “No Bake Play Dough Recipe: Video.” Crafts for Kids. PBS Parents.
Web. 14 September 2015. http://www.pbs.org/parents/crafts-for-kids/no-bake-play-dough/.
“Playing with Play Dough.” Parents Raising Readers and Learners. Scholastic. Web. 16
September 2015. http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/craft-activities/playing-
play-dough.