My kids LOVE Play Dough.  They have since they were itty bitty and they still do (and they are 7 and 8 years old).  This is my mom’s recipe that she made for me and my brothers when we were kids.  I made them a fresh batch last night and packaged it up like little pumpkins.  

Play Dough

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tsp. cream of tartar

1 cup warm water
food coloring
2 tbsp. veg. oil

Combine the dry ingredients in a pot.  Combine the wet ingredients in the bowl.

Pour the wet ingredients into the pot with the dry ingredients and stir with a whisk.  Try to get out as many of the lumps as possible.  Put the pot on the stove on Med-high heat and continue stirring.

Stir with whisk until the dough begins to thicken, then change to a spoon.  The dough will become very thick.

Cook and stir until the dough forms a ball and pulls away from the sides of the pan.  (This picture shows the dough seconds away from being done).

Remove from the pan and it is done!  Allow the dough to cool for a few minutes.  This dough is soft and pliable and it lasts a really long time.  My kids prefer it over the store bought kind.  Oh, and because it has so much salt, it tastes really bad and kids don’t want to eat it (and if they do, there is nothing in it that will hurt them).