This document provides recipes for several crafts for children, including playdough, bath tub paint, textured paint, galaxy dough, sidewalk chalk, shrinky dinks, water color paint, and cloud dough. The recipes generally require inexpensive household ingredients and provide instructions in just a few simple steps for creating each craft.

1. My Craft Recipes
Compiled by Kate Ahern, M.S.Ed.

2. Long Lasting Playdough
1. Heat the oil in a pot.
2. Remove from the heat and
add food coloring and
water.
3. Stir in all other
• 1 Cup Flour ingredients.
• 1/2 cup salt 4. Continue to cook over low
heat until mixture is firm,
• 2 tbsp oil
about 4-5 minutes.
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
5. Remove from heat, and
• 1 cup water set clay mixture on wax
• food coloring (optional) paper to cool.
• glitter (optional) 6. Store in an airtight
• Scented oil (optional) container

3. Bath Tub Paint
1. In a mixing bowl mix
together your bubble bath
and cornstarch
2. Pour this mixture into 4
small containers
3. Mix a couple drops (you only want
• 1 cup baby bubble bath or to use a couple drops so it won't stain) of food
body wash - as long as it is coloring in each container
clear/white 4. Paint in the tub!
• 4 tbsp cornstarch 5. when you're done, snap
• a few drops of food coloring on the lid and they're
• small containers with lids ready to go for next time

4. Textured Paint
1. In a bowl, mix equal parts:
Flour, Water & Salt.
2. Mix well
3. Add just a few drops of
coloring
4. Use funnel to pour into
- Squeeze bottles bottles
- Flour
5. Paint away – be sure to
- Salt
use thick paper
- Water
- Food Coloring
- Large Bowls
- Spoons
- Funnel
From: http://www.delawarecountymoms.com/2011/07/getting-crafty-with-nicole-homemade.html

5. Galaxy Dough
1. Mix liquid ingredients in a
saucepan and begin to heat
liquids.
2. In a separate bowl mix dry
ingredients.
3. Add to the heating liquids.
• 2 cups of plain flour 4. Stir until the dough gathers and
• 2 cups of water with black thickens.
and blue food coloring 5. Cook until it gets that sheen to
• 1 Tbsp. of cooking oil it.
• 1 Tbsp. cream of tartar 6. Let it cool slightly and then
• 1 cup of salt knead in glitter and bring
• Glitter proper consistency.
• Plastic Container 7. Store in plastic container.
Fromhttp://fairydustteaching.blogspot.com/2011/05/galaxy-playdough.html

6. Homemade Sidewalk Chalk
1. Cover one end of each tube
with duct tape
2. Line inside of tubes with wax
paper
• Toilet paper tubes 3. Pour warm water into
• Scissors container and mix in Plaster of
• Duct tape Paris
• Wax paper 4. Add paint and stir
• Disposable container for 5. Fill tubes
mixing 6. Let harden for three days
• ¾ cup of warm water 7. Remove duct tape; let dry
• 1 ½ cups Plaster of Paris several more hours to a day
• 2-3 TBS of tempera paint 8. Peal off tube and waxed paper
9. Enjoy
http://www.ohmyhandmade.com/2010/contributors/homemade-sidewalk-chalk/

7. DIY Shrinky Dinks
1. Cut shapes from plastic (2/3
larger than the size of your final
project)
2. Draw or trace a design onto the
• permanent markers plastic with permanent marker
• regular hole punch 3. Color in with permanent
• #6 plastic marker
• oven 4. Punch a hole for hanging
• cookie sheet covered with 5. Lay ink side up on cookie sheet
aluminum foil or parchment 6. Bake at 350 until it curls and
paper then flattens back out
• scissors 7. Let cool, add ribbon or cord for
• Coloring book images hanging
(optional)
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/01/07/how-to-make-shrinky-dinks-with-recycled-6-plastic/

8. Water Color Paint
1. Combine baking soda,
cornstarch and vinegar
2. Add corn syrup
• 3 TBS baking soda
3. Allow fizzing to subside and mix
• 3 TBS cornstarch completely
• 3 TBS white vinegar 4. Pour into small containers
• 1 ½ tsp light corn syrup (or 5. Add food coloring
simply boil one cup sugar
6. Allow to harden for 3 hours
and 1/2 cup water until
clear) 7. Paint away
• food coloring
• Small containers
http://lilacsilhouette.blogspot.com/2010/12/diy-watercolors.html

9. Cloud Dough aka Magic Sand
1. Put the oil and flour into a bowl
and mix together with your
hands.
2. Until you end up with a mixture
that resembles
breadcrumbs. That's it!
3. Store in airtight bag or
• 8 cups of flour container
• 1 cup of baby oil
• Bowl
• Airtight container
http://pre-schoolplay.blogspot.com/2011/07/cloud-dough.html