NO ARTIFICIAL FOOD DYES

👩🏻‍🍳 Homemade Playdough Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup boiling water

• **1/2 cup treated flour

• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

• 1/4 cup salt

• 1.5 teaspoon canola oil

• 1/4 cup sugar

• Measure with your hearts content - pickled beets

👩🏻‍🍳 Homemade Playdough Instructions:

1️⃣ Combine water and beets in a pot and bring to boil.

2️⃣ While waiting for the water to boil, combine your dry ingredients in a separate bowl.

3️⃣ Optionally remove whole beets from water. Leaving beets in dough adds texture and helps color.

4️⃣ Remove from heat and add the oil.

5️⃣ Slowly stir in the dry ingredients. Continue mixing until the playdough forms a ball.

6️⃣ When the playdough is cool enough, knead it until it is no longer sticky.

Other natural food coloring options:

👉🏻 Orange - Carrots, Paprika

👉🏻 Yellow - Tumeric

👉🏻 Green - Spinach, Matcha

👉🏻 Purple - Blueberries, Purple sweet potato

👉🏻 Brown - Cocoa powder

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* Just because it is safe to eat doesn’t mean you should encourage your kids to eat the playdough. I just mean if they happen to get it in their mouth or try to eat it, they will be okay.

** Treated flour means that your flour has been baked and cooked out. Flour doesn't look like a raw food, but most flour is raw. That means it HASN’T been treated to kill germs that cause food poisoning, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Salmonella.

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