So today is Little Man's Halloween party and we were in charge of the treat bags for 20 2-3 yr olds!
We put in some random little toys from JoAnn's and I made ghost bags with white lunch bags and black card stock eyes and mouth. I decided that I needed one more homemade thing and decided on pumpkin playdough. I have seen this ALL OVER the place and decided I could adapt own recipe from my basic 'dough recipe.
I thought as a last minute Halloween post-I should share it with you!
To make 20 palm-ish sized pumpkins of dough (lol) you need:
2 c. Flour
1 c. Salt
1 tsp. Cinnamon
4 tsp. Cream of Tartar
1 tsp. Allspice
2 c. H20
2 Tbs. Veggie oil
Yellow and Red food coloring
Directions
Mix dry ingredients in a large sauce pan or pot, mix with a whisk until well blended.
Add wet ingredients and mix until blended. I used 28 drops yellow and 12 drops red food coloring.
Put pan on burner over medium heat and with a rubber spatula stir constantly-even if it feels like your arm is about to fall off! It took me about 6 minutes or so for the dough to form a dough. Try not to over cook it (it gets to dry)
Turn out when it cools a little on a clean counter top and kneed until smooth.
Roll the pumpkin into a log and cut in half, cut that in half, then into fifth's to make 20. Roll into little balls.
I put mine in sandwich baggies tied off with green ribbon "stem" and drew on little pumpkin faces.
These will keep about a week; if it gets a little to dried out you can dampen your hands and roll again.
