Play dough that Fizzes

Today's activities were play dough and table tennis, well I left the later to Robin, but I was very keen on the first as it is one of my favourite things to do.

WARNING - there are a lot of photos as I am loving the iOS 7 camera on my phone!

Recipe

Making play dough is so easy and satisfying. This is a magic recipe that is even more exciting.

you need:

1 cup flour
1/2 cup baking soda
3/4 cup salt
2 tbsp cream of tartar
2 tbsp oil 
1 1/2 cups water
food colouring

(no cream of tartar in pic!)

You put all the ingredients into a saucepan and then stir over a medium heat. Eventually it all starts to come together into a big ball of dough. You then need to put it on a board and kneed it - it is VERY hot so not for children to touch straight away.

The boys will play with play dough for ages. They love making spaghetti:

 Today they also to make cupcakes which looked great!

We then decided to see how magic the cup cakes were and we injected them with vinegar. Due to the magic ingredient of baking soda the cupcakes all fizzed. The boys loved it, especially flattening them out and seeing little eruptions happen as the vinegar reacts to the dough.

You cannot use the play dough again as it is all wet!

If you substitute the baking soda for more flour, this mix keeps for ages in an air tight container.

Table tennis

Not sure what to say about this - they played table tennis!

The boys got very excited and have already picked out the next activity and are very excited as its one of their (and mine!) favourites - "Experiments"! So watch this space!