Homemade Play Dough

Date: 20^th August 2013

Day: Tuesday

Time: 3:30-4:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Homemade Play Dough

Today, we wanted to try and see if we could make the homemade play dough by ourselves. Before we start, I played a video for the children about how to make homemade play dough.

From the video we knew that the basic ingredients we needed were as followed:

1)      flour

2)      warm water

3)      salt

4)      cooking oil

5)      food colouring of desired colours

I don’t have sufficient ingredients for each child. Therefore I roughly estimate the amount of flour, water, salt and cooking oil for each child to begin with. Due to estimation, some of the dough came out to be too dry while some too wet. As a result, some of them I have to add in a little bit of water or flour. 

Yi Han: Why so wet?
Wei Ni: Why so dry?

Jia Hoong: I stir. 

The children tried their best to stir the flour mixture evenly. Then, they also tried to knead it on the table. When one got it correctly, the children started to get excited that they were hoping theirs will be successful too. Unfortunately, there was still some unsuccessful one. For those who managed to get their dough done well, they went around to help others by either adding flour or water. I’m glad to see such helpful spirit among the children and also their will to get the dough done well.

Jia Jia: It's so sticky!

Bee Chien: Do like this. 

Wei Lok: My play dough!

I put the successful dough in the fridge and with the hope that the children could play with it the next day.